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Non-profit
The Paul and Joanne Egerman Family Charitable Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation. In addition to the foundation’s charitable works, such as funding scholarships and supporting MIT, it donates to left-leaning groups. In 2018, the foundation donated to The American Prospect,
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Non-profit
The Perls Foundation is a grantmaking foundation founded by art dealer Klaus Perl. The foundation funds many left-of-center groups, including the Public Citizen Foundation, the ACLU, and United for a Fair Economy. Founding and History The Perls Foundation was founded by the art dealer Klaus Perls and
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Other Group
The Columbia Journalism Review is a magazine and website published by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism that monitors the news media industry. Though it claims not to identify with a political point of view, it has affiliations with openly left-leaning media outlets such as The Nation and
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Non-profit
Americans for All of Us Action is a super PAC focused on promoting left-wing issues through petitions to Democratic officials. It is the parent organization of By the People, an organization created to pressure Congress to impeach and remove President Donald Trump from office. Petitions Americans for All of
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Movement for a People’s Party (MPP) is a campaign led by former campaign staffers for the 2016 Presidential campaign of self-described “democratic socialist” U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) that is attempting to establish a progressive political party to challenge the Democratic Party from the left. The group works
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Non-profit
The Progress Unity Fund (PUF) is a radical-left group that fiscally sponsors activist organizations, including the ANSWER Coalition, Women Organized to Resist and Defend (WORD), the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, and Pivot to Peace. PUF is closely connected to the Workers World Party (WWP) and
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Non-profit
ACRONYM is a left-of-center political and advocacy organization designed to launch voter mobilization and digital advertising programs while also working on communications for left-progressive causes. 1 ACRONYM advances a left-of-center agenda at the
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Movement
The March for Science is a left-of-center movement that advocates for environmentalist policies and opposed Trump administration initiatives. March for Science endorses left-of-center policies including abortion access,1 expansionist approaches
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Person
Elizabeth Warren is a Democratic politician who has served as U.S. Senator from Massachusetts since 2012 and is a well-known leader of the left-progressive faction within the Democratic Party. Prior to her election to the Senate, Warren had a long career in academia and on government advisory panels related to
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Person
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as “AOC,” is a Democratic politician and leader of the radical left of the Party. In 2018, she was elected U.S. Representative for New York’s 14th District located in the Bronx and Queens. First elected at 28 years old, Ocasio-Cortez is as of mid-2020 the youngest
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Person
Sean McElwee is an activist and political consultant who advocates for the Democratic Party to endorse more left-progressive policy platforms. He is the co-founder and executive director of Data for Progress, a left-of-center public research group and a project of Tides Advocacy. McElwee is also the director of
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Person
Alexis McGill Johnson is the acting President and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She entered the role on July 16, 2019 following the departure of Leana Wen.
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Non-profit
Extinction Rebellion (XR) is a radical environmental activist organization created in the United Kingdom in mid-2019 from a network of individuals affiliated with Earth First! and Occupy Wall Street.
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Person
Paco Fabian is director of campaigns at Our Revolution and the former communications director of Change to Win, a labor union coalition originally formed to rival the AFL-CIO. 1 He is also on the advisory committee
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Non-profit
New Jersey Citizen Action (NJCA) is a state affiliate of the now defunct Citizen Action, a national left-of-center voter mobilization and community organizing group. Citizen Action of New Jersey works in tandem with its sister 501(c)(3) group, New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund to conduct left-progressive advocacy and social service
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Person
Richard Rodriguez is an Illinois-based political activist and a board member for the pro-Bernie Sanders advocacy group Our Revolution.
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Person
Lucero Mesa is a South Carolina-based political activist and a board member for the pro-Bernie Sanders advocacy group Our Revolution.
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Person
Shailene Woodley is an actress and political activist involved in a number of environmentalist groups as well as the pro-Bernie Sanders advocacy group Our Revolution.
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Person
Huck Gutman is a Democratic Party campaign operative and academic. He formerly worked as chief of staff to Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign.
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Non-profit
The Elders Action Network (formerly the Conscious Elders Network) is a left-of-center advocacy organization that works to encourage older people to engage in activism related to various left-leaning policy stances. 1 Elders Action
