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MacKenzie Scott is the ex-wife of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Formerly known as MacKenzie Bezos, she is recognized as the third-wealthiest woman in the world after a divorce settlement left her with an estimated $37 billion.
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Type Investigations, formerly known as the Investigative Fund, is a media organization that funds and publicizes left-of-center investigative journalism. It is a subsidiary project of the TYPE Media Center, (formerly known as The Nation Institute), an organization that supports and trains left-of-center journalists and authors.
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Africare is a Washington-based nonprofit that focuses on quality of life in Africa. The organization says it has thousands of separate projects across 36 countries on the African continent. 1 In 2016, the organization had more
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The Voter Engagement Evaluation Project (VEEP) was a donor collaborative which funneled grants to left-wing voter registration and mobilization groups. VEEP was co-sponsored by the Proteus Fund and Funders Committee for Civic Participation, a donor affinity group for major center-left funders (itself a project of NEO Philanthropy).
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The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is a left-leaning environmentalist organization that advocates against businesses which produce conventional energy sources (such as oil and natural gas), paper products, and consumer goods. Founded in 1985, RAN frequently ties its mission to the identity politics common on the American Left.
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The Piper Action Fund is a donor advocacy collaborative hosted by the 501(c)(4) advocacy nonprofit Proteus Action League. It is affiliated with the Piper Fund, a donor collaborative hosted by the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Proteus Fund. Both the Piper Action Fund and Piper Fund advocate for center-left campaign finance reform
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Cristobal Alex is left-of-center activist and Democratic Party operative who served as the Biden Administration’s White House Deputy Cabinet Secretary and a Special Assistant to the President from 2021 to 2022.
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Mark Zuckerberg is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Facebook. Zuckerberg founded the company while at Harvard with classmates Andrew McCullum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin. He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are also active left-of-center advocacy philanthropists; in 2015, the couple founded the philanthropic limited liability
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Lawrence “Larry” Page is the co-founder of Google, and current board member and largest shareholder of Google’s parent company, Alphabet. With a net worth of $64.8 billion as of September 2020, Page is the eighth-richest person in the world.
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Fractured Atlas Productions is a New York City-based organization that fiscally sponsors artists and provides them with other business tools. Originally, the organization was a production company that produced productions for the theater; it has since shifted focus to a business service and technology organization for artists after the September
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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is the assembly of the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in America. The USCCB identifies its purposes as promoting “Catholic activities” across the country and supporting Catholic education, as well as conducting charitable and social work both in the United States
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Marc Elias is an American attorney best known for his involvement in Democratic Party political campaigns, redistricting litigation, and election litigation. He was formerly a partner at the law firm Perkins Coie LLP and head of its Political Law practice, which assists Democratic political committees and other left-of-center clients. In August
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Learning Policy Institute (LPI) is an education research and policy advocacy group that focuses on diversity and equity outcomes. It is a proponent of “deeper learning,” an educational approach that rejects traditional methods such as rote memorization of facts in favor of “real-world problem-solving skills.” The emphasis is instead placed
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Ralph Nader is an American environmentalist and consumers’-interests activist and left-of-center politician. Though he affiliates with neither major party, his views are generally considered left-wing and he focuses on promoting anti-free-market regulations. Nader became a household name in the 1960s with Unsafe at Any Speed, his investigative report on the
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The Hub Project is a left-of-center advocacy and research organization established by former Obama administration officials in 2017 that works with other groups to promote left-of-center policy. The group acts as an “incubator for groups backing Democrats and their causes.”
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Upworthy (legal name Cloud Tiger Media) is a left-of-center news aggregation site. Founded by left-of-center activists Eli Pariser and Peter Koechley, Upworthy attempts to manipulate “emotional data” in order to influence readers’ “decision making” on social issues.
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Scott Nielsen is the director of advocacy at the left-of-center Arabella Advisors investment firm. In this role, he helps Arabella’s clients use their financial resources to accomplish left-of-center political goals.
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FCCP is a “fiscally sponsored” project. For more information about FCCP’s parent group, see NEO Philanthropy (Nonprofit) The Funders Committee for Civic Participation (FCCP) is a donors’ affinity group for left-wing voter engagement advocacy that steers millions of dollars from left-wing funding entities to left-of-center nonprofits that use the
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Jane Mayer is a left-of-center investigative reporter and contributor the New Yorker. Prior to joining that publication, Mayer worked as a White House correspondent and as a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. Mayer has covered issues including U.S. military policy, the Trump administration, and campaign finance.
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Donald Sussman, born Selwyn Donald Sussman, is a hedge fund executive who funds Democratic Party political campaigns and left-of-center activist groups. 1 Sussman is the founder
