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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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Jill Alper is a top Democratic strategist 1 who has worked on seven presidential campaigns 2 including as the
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Vote Smart, formerly known as Vote Smart Project, is a non-partisan research project which collects and distributes information on political candidates. It is a project (and appears to be the sole function) of the Center for National Independence in Politics. The organization was founded by former Arizona Democratic politician
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Also see Democracy Fund (Non-profit) Democracy Fund Voice is a left-leaning lobbying and electoral advocacy group within the advocacy-philanthropy network of eBay chairman and founder Pierre Omidyar.
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Jonathan Greenblatt is a Democratic political operative, corporate executive, and the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. He worked for Bill Clinton’s 1992 Presidential campaign
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Peter Amber is a gun control activist who co-founded and works as executive director of Giffords, an organization that supports stricter regulations on firearms. Prior to his work at Giffords, Ambler had years of experience working in multiple Democratic offices.
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The Max and Anna Levinson Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that financially supports nonprofit organizations in the areas of environmentalism, left-of-center social policy, and Jewish and pro-Israel causes.
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Joshua Pechthalt is a long-time labor union agitator and official. From 2011 to March of 2020, Pechthalt was the president of the California Federation of Teachers (CFT), the second-largest labor union in California and state-level affiliate of the left-of-center American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Previously, Pechthalt was a
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John McDonald is a Vice President of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and has been the president of and chief negotiator for the Henry Ford Community College Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 1650, in Dearborn, Michigan, since 1978.
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Joanne M. McCall is a teachers’ union official working as the executive director of the Pinellas Classroom Teachers Association, a local teachers union in Pinellas County, Florida. McCall previously sat as president of the Florida Education Association (FEA). Background Before becoming involved in labor unionism, McCall worked as a
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The Florida Education Association (FEA) is an umbrella organization for teachers’ unions in the state of Florida. The association has more than 100 member unions and claims to represent more than 150,000 teachers, college professors, and school administrators. The FEA is affiliated with both the National Education Association and
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David Wayne Gray 1 is a labor union activist who is a vice president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
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Larry Carter Jr. is a vice president of the American Federation of Teachers union. He is also the president of the Louisiana Federation of Teachers and School Employees union, a statewide affiliate of the AFT. United Teachers of New Orleans Carter began his teaching career in 1993 at
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Alex Caputo-Pearl is the former president, and current vice president, of the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) union and a vice president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). He is an outspoken opponent of charter schools and other education reform measures. Caputo-Pearl has always been seen
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Note: Not to be confused with Documented (New York City), a news site reporting on policy trends impacting immigrants in New York City. Documented is an investigative journalism group that targets right-wing groups and corporations, particularly regarding environmental policy matters. Documented’s “investigations series” include “The Republican War on Democracy,”
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Leslie Frane is a labor union official who holds office as executive vice president for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a major cross-sectoral labor union that represents building services employees, nurses, other healthcare workers, and government workers and is established as an institution in left-of-center politics. Frane has
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Kevin F. Gilbert is a public education official and labor union activist who has sat on the executive committee of the National Education Association (NEA), the largest labor union in the United States and a major contributor to left-of-center political causes.
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Rebecca Pringle is a teacher and teachers’ union officer working as the president of the National Education Association (NEA), America’s largest labor union. Pringle has been an outspoken opponent of reopening schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic, even to the point of supporting teacher strikes against school districts. Pringle worked
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Citizens Climate Education (CCE) is an environmentalist advocacy organization affiliated with the lobbying group Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL). CCE promotes a carbon tax scheme as its primary solution to climate change, which it refers to as a “carbon fee and dividend.”
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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
