Natalie Foster is a liberal political activist and co-chair of the Economic Security Project, a left-of-center group that advocates for a federal universal basic income scheme with funding from Facebook co-founder and liberal donor Chris Hughes, eBay founder and Democratic donor Pierre Omidyar, George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, and the Knight Foundation. [1] Economic Security Project is a project of the Hopewell Fund, a left-of-center pass-through funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by the consulting firm Arabella Advisors in Washington, DC; as such, Foster is paid by the Hopewell Fund. In 2019, her total compensation from the Hopewell Fund was $210,084. [2]
Foster is also a former Barack Obama campaign staffer and Democratic National Committee staffer who previously held leadership positions at the Sierra Club and MoveOn.org. [3]