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Non-profit
The Arizona Center for Empowerment (ACE) is a left-leaning worker organizing and advocacy organization. Focused on Arizona’s Latino immigrant communities, its priorities include immigration, health care, income equality, and public education. The group is a sister organization to Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA), a worker center and
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Other Group
The Soros Network (also called the Open Society Network) is a system of private grantmaking foundations and nonprofits that comprise one of the largest funders of center-left and far-left activism and advocacy in the world. At the center of the network is George Soros, a Hungarian-born financier and liberal
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Person
Barbara Simons is a computer scientist who serves on the board of Verified Voting, a nonprofit that advocates against electronic voting. Simons is an outspoken supporter of paper ballots, serving on the Board of Advisors to the United States Election Assistance Commission. In addition to her work on election administration,
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Person
Jason Leopold is an American reporter who currently works as a senior investigator for Buzzfeed News. He has previously worked for numerous other left-of-center media outlets, including Al Jazeera America,47 Vice News,
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Person
Rahna Epting has made a career as an activist for the left-leaning progressive movement. In the fall of 2019, she became the executive director of the liberal organizations MoveOn Political Action and MoveOn Civic Action after previous positions within the organization, first as leading strategic partnerships, then as
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Non-profit
Unite America Institute (UAI) is a center-left, Colorado-based, advocacy organization that supports structural changes in the election system it claims will reduce voter partisanship and benefit ostensibly “centrist” and independent candidates for public office. 74
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Political Party/527
Unite America (UA) is a political organization based in Denver, Colorado that supports moderate-left candidates for elective office and advocates for changes in laws affecting the election process that UA claims will benefit centrist candidates but that are also supported by left-of-center and radical-left interests. Unite America is a “hybrid
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Movement
The 1619 Project is an artistic and journalistic project of the New York Times Magazine that asserts the central event in the founding of the United States was the first importation of enslaved Africans to Virginia in 1619 and not the Declaration of Independence in 1776 or the drafting of
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Non-profit
The Laughing Gull Foundation is a left-leaning private foundation that makes grants in the areas of LGBT interests, higher education in prison, and environmentalism. The Durham, North Carolina – based foundation was founded in 2012 and focuses its mission in America’s southern region.
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Person
Tracy Sturdivant is president of The League, an organizing collective that grew out of the Make it Work Campaign, which she also co-founded. Sturdivant is a veteran organizer for left-of-center causes and a self-professed “one woman coalition.”
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Political Party/527
Left-wing activist and preacher Jesse Jackson ran two campaigns for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1984 and 1988. The 1988 race was the more successful of the two attempts, with Jackson briefly taking first place in the delegate race after a strong showing in
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Non-profit
When We All Vote is a self-described non-partisan voter outreach and registration organization and was started as an initiative of Civic Nation, an advocacy-based nonprofit group, in 2018. 265 The organization was
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Non-profit
The International Planned Parenthood Federation is a group based in London that organizes member and affiliate groups worldwide that perform abortions and engage in abortion advocacy, in addition to providing women’s health care services and educational programs. The Federation’s U.S. member organization is Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA),
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Non-profit
Take Back Our Republic is a nominally right-leaning organization that supports campaign speech restriction. 294 Former Republican political operative John Pudner founded the organization.
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Person
Jane Goodall is an English primatologist and far-left environmentalist. Though Goodall is best known for her chimpanzee research, she has spent much of her career as an environmentalist activist, supporting left-of-center environmental projects in both climate change and radical animal rights activism. To provide a platform for her environmentalism, Goodall
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Person
John Morgan is a Florida-based trial lawyer and a partner and founder of one of the nation’s largest law firms, Morgan and Morgan. Morgan has donated millions of dollars to Democratic candidates
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For-profit
O’Brien Garrett is a major Washington, D.C.-based fundraising and political consulting firm founded by Democratic political operative Frank O’Brien in 1987. It was previously known as O’Brien McConnell Pearson and branded as OMP Direct. Yvonne Garrett later joined the firm as a partner after serving as vice president for client
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Person
Christopher Hohn is an English hedge fund manager and billionaire philanthropist with a personal fortune of £1.2 billion (approximately $1.56 billion) as of 2019
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For-profit
Participant (formerly known as Participant Media) was a film production company founded by Jeffrey Skoll, a left-leaning billionaire who was formerly the president of eBay.
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Person
Alison Carlson is the founder of the Passport Foundation and the Forsythia Foundation, two environmentalist grantmaking foundations. After a personal health scare, Carlson became involved in numerous scientific and activist efforts regarding environmental toxins. In 2007, she co-founded the Passport Foundation with her now-ex-husband John Burbank. Three years
