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Voting Rights Lab is a voter advocacy group working at the state level to change voting laws and reducing restrictions. The group is a former project of the nonprofit group New Venture Fund. Started in 2018, the Voting Rights Lab works to support left-of-center policies concerning vote-by-mail and restoration
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Non-profit
The Social and Economic Justice Leaders Planning Group, also known as the Social and Economic Justice Leaders Council, 1 is an activist project of the left-of-center funding and fiscal sponsorship
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Non-profit
The Narrative Initiative is a project of the New Venture Fund, a nonprofit in the Arabella Advisors network of left-progressive “dark money” organizations, that seeks to change and influence narratives surrounding issues of equity and social policy. It was founded in 2017. The Narrative Initiative was “conceived and funded”
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Non-profit
Family Health International (or FHI 360) is a left-of-center charity that works on numerous projects both inside and outside the United States. It advocates combating income inequality and increasing government spending.
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Non-profit
The Society of Family Planning (SFP) is a left-of-center non-profit organization that promotes research on abortion and contraception.1 Founded in 2005, the organization funds abortion research, creates a network of abortion providers, and publishes “clinical
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Non-profit
Gynuity Health Projects (formal name Gynuity Institute) is a far-left abortion research and advocacy organization that conducts clinical studies into 2nd trimester abortion pills in poor countries in Africa and Asia. Although Gynuity received its tax-exempt status from the IRS in 2018, the organization has operated as a for-profit enterprise
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Non-profit
The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust is a private foundation founded in 2007 by Linda K. Jacobs. The Trust is named after Jacobs’ mother, Violet “Vi” Jabara Jacobs,1 who founded the Jacobs Family Foundation in
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Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) is a left-of-center campaign to implement the United Nations’ goal to expand birth control and abortion access in developing countries, particularly in Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and southeast Asia. It is a project of the United Nations Foundation, a U.S.-based foundation formed by CNN founder
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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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Margaret Sanger was a prominent advocate for contraception, eugenics, population control, and abortion best known for founding the American Birth Control League, the immediate predecessor of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). Sanger popularized the term “birth control” as central to her larger philosophy of Birth Control (later
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Non-profit
The Lebowitz-Aberly Family Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation associated with liberal activist couple Larry Lebowitz, a hedge fund manager, and Naomi Aberly, the chair of the board of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). Grantmaking The Lebowitz-Aberly Family Foundation supports a number of left-of-center organizations and advocacy causes; appropriately given
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Non-profit
The Denver Foundation is a private charity that specializes in managing and administering grants from donor-advised funds and other charitable fund formats. The group was established in 1925 and is particularly focused on helping donors in the Denver area. Because of the donor-advised nature of so many of the foundations
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Non-profit
The Marty and Dorothy Silverman Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation established by the late entrepreneur Morris “Marty” Silverman. The foundation disburses grants to academic, Jewish, and veterans causes, along with programs for children and the elderly.
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Non-profit
The Hull Family Foundation is a left-of-center private foundation founded by millionaire investor Blair Hull and run by him and his children. The foundation donates to many left wing groups, including NARAL, the American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
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Nicole Berner is a left-of-center activist currently working as general counsel for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) as a partner in the labor union-side labor law firm James and Hoffman PC.
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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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Ellen Pao is the former interim CEO of Reddit and the founder of Project Include. She rose to national prominence after suing her former employer, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, for gender discrimination; she lost the case.
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Jennifer Ann Allan Soros is the wife of Jonathan Soros, the third child of liberal finance billionaire George Soros and his first wife, Annaliese Witschak. Jennifer and her husband have given millions of dollars to left-of-center causes, Democratic Party candidates, and the abortion provider Planned Parenthood Federation
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John R. Taylor is the managing partner of the private philanthropy consulting firm Wellspring Advisors and the founder of its associated left-of-center foundation, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund. Taylor previously worked for Berger & Montague P.C. from 1989-1997 and as a litigator for Dechert LLP from 1986 to 1989.
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Non-profit
The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust is the private grantmaking foundation of the late real estate developer and philanthropist Bernard Spitzer and his wife, Anne, whose children include former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D). The foundation is a major contributor to left-of-center nonprofits. Background Formed in 2001
