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The Forum on Philanthropy and the Public Good is a “time-limited think tank”1 run by the Boston College Law School which hosts discussions on philanthropic tax policy. The Forum’s co-founder and director is
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The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta (CFGA) is a left-of-center provider of donor-advised funds based in Atlanta, Georgia. The foundation funds private benefit programs, offers scholarships, and social justice initiatives. CFGA prioritizes groups that it perceives as suffering from “gaps in equity,” particularly Black residents of Atlanta.
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A Call to Men (styled A CALL TO MEN) is a left-of-center campaign sponsored by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors that claims to prevent violence against women and girls by advocating for men to reject traditionally masculine values.
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The Initiative to Accelerate Charitable Giving (IACG) is a campaign to create a set of government regulations on donor-advised funds (DAF). The initiative is a project of Arnold Ventures, a left-of-center grantmaking fund run by billionaires John and Laura Arnold. The IACG’s proposals are based on the
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Ray D. Madoff is a Boston College Law School professor and academic who focuses on modern philanthropy. She is best known for her criticisms of the donor-advised fund (DAF), a popular charitable investment tool which Madoff has claimed is used by wealthy Americans to avoid paying taxes. In 2020, Madoff
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American Compass is a self-proclaimed conservative think tank which considers itself a part of the “conservative labor movement.” American Compass was founded by Oren Cass, a former advisor to now-U.S. Senator Mitt Romney’s (R-UT) presidential campaigns and a labor and environmental policy analyst. In American Compass’s founding letter, Cass
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Reed Hastings is the cofounder, chairman, and co-CEO of Netflix and a major Democratic political donor. During the 2016 Clinton presidential campaign, Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, raised over $100,000 on behalf of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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Wallis Annenberg is the president of the Annenberg Foundation, a multibillion-dollar private foundation which funds various left-of-center political groups and causes in the Greater Los Angeles area and throughout the nation. According to the Annenberg Foundation’s 2018 tax return, the foundation has over $1.4 billion in assets, putting it
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Planned Parenthood of New York City (PPNYC) was a local affiliate of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the nation’s largest network of abortion providers and a left-of-center activist organization, that folded into Planned Parenthood of Greater New York in January 2020.
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The National Philanthropic Trust (NPT) is one of the largest charities in the United States, functioning as a management organization for left-of-center social impact investment and donor-advised fund (DAF) accounts. 1 Donor-advised fund management
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The Center for Countering Digital Hate is a London-based advocacy group that targets accused “hate groups” and individuals for de-platforming campaigns to remove them from major social media outlets. The Center is best known for working with Rachel Riley to remove controversial far-right commentator Katie Hopkins from Twitter and conspiracy
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Arnold Ventures is a for-profit philanthropy. For more information, see the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (Nonprofit) Arnold Ventures is a center-left philanthropy founded in early 2019 by liberal donors Laura and John Arnold. Arnold Ventures is a for-profit limited liability company (LLC) and its creation represents a
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Laura Arnold, born Laura Munoz, is an American philanthropist and activist. Together with her husband, the retired hedge fund manager John D. Arnold, she is the co-founder of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and the grantmaking organization Arnold Ventures. She is also a founding partner of
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The Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego is a major donor-advised fund based in San Diego, California. Since its founding in 1967, it has given over $1.6 billion in grants, and as of the end of 2019 managed $500 million in assets.
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The Bank of America Charitable Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that is funded and operated by Bank of America, Inc. The Foundation is funded by Bank of America annually, receiving over $120 million from the bank in 2018. The foundation engages in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) related investing
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Not to be confused with Tides Network, a related nonprofit in the nexus The Tides Nexus is a collection of related left-of-center grantmaking, fiscal sponsorship, and advocacy nonprofits headquartered in San Francisco, California. The system originated in 1976 when liberal political activist Drummond Pike joined with Jane Lehman, heiress
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The Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) is a Chicago, Illinois-based center-left election reform advocacy group formed in 2012. The organization pushes for left-of-center voting policies and election administration. It has a wide reach into local elections offices across the nation and is funded by many left-of-center funding organizations
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The Leadership for Educational Equity Foundation (LEEF) is the research and education arm of branch of Leadership for Educational Equity (LEE), a nonprofit advocacy group which trains and organizes Teach for America (TFA) teachers and alumni to promote political education reforms. LEEF funds LEE’s educational events, internships, research,
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Matt Cutts is the administrator of the U.S. Digital Service (USDS), a subordinate government agency of the Executive Office of the President that is tasked with improving federal website products. An Obama appointee (and, according to reports, a registered Independent
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The East Bay Community Foundation is a community foundation based in the Oakland, California area. The foundation works with local donors, companies and governments to direct funds to local community projects, many focusing on social justice and left-leaning political causes. Among the funding options for the foundation is the ability
