The Friedman Family Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that donates money to other left-of-center organizations primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area with the goal of reducing poverty.

Peace Action is a left-of-center advocacy organization that advocates left-of-center foreign, economic, and environmental policies. 1 Peace Action advocates ending wars, reducing U.S. military spending, and promoting “diplomacy” with countries such as

Church Women United (CWU) was formed to advance a petition in support of the formation of the United Nations (UN). It consists of 1,200 units spread across the United States and its members represent at least 70 Christian denominations.

National Priorities Project (NPP) is a project of the left-of-center Institute for Policy Studies

Borealis Philanthropy is a left-of-center philanthropic intermediary that has supported the creation, provided operational expertise, and staffed 299 groups since its founding in 2014. Borealis is deeply involved in identity-interest advocacy and organizing; it is perhaps most notable for partnering with the Black Lives Matter movement since 2016.

Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote) is a left-of-center voter turnout organization that receives financial support from leading left-of-center grant makers like the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and NEO Philanthropy.

Convergence Center for Policy Resolution, also known simply as Convergence, is a think tank established in 2009 that hosts a variety of projects centered around finding consensus on public policy matters. The group has worked on issues including health care, civil service reform, modernization of Congress, and incarceration and reentry

Civic Nation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 2015, headed by President Jason Waskey (CEO of Blue Crab Strategies LLC) and Executive Director Jenn Brown. Touting itself as an organ of widespread positive social change, Civic Nation funds several large charitable initiatives:  Erase the Hate, College Promise, It’s On Us,

Blue State (formerly Blue State Digital) is an advertising agency and strategic consulting firm that provides services to left-of-center nonprofits, left-progressive political causes, companies, and Democratic electoral campaigns. 1 It is headquartered in Brooklyn, New

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a left-of-center digital rights advocacy organization headquartered in San Francisco, California. EFF activities include policy analysis and education, technology development, activism, and litigation. Much of EFF’s attention focuses on fighting government’s and law enforcement’s interference in individual digital activities through surveillance, censorship, and invasion of

Eric Kessler is founder, principal, and senior managing director of Arabella Advisors, a Washington, D.C.-based philanthropic consultancy that caters to left-leaning clients. Arabella Advisors also manages a number of center-left funding and fiscal sponsorship organizations, including 501(c)(4) Sixteen Thirty Fund, 501(c)(3) New Venture Fund, 501(c)(3) Hopewell

Lynn Forester de Rothschild is a British-American businesswoman and chief executive officer of the investment firm E.L. Rothschild, LLC. She is also the founder of the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism, an alliance of business interests, activist groups, and political figures which aims to leverage market forces to implement left-of-center

Deborah Axt, a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, works as the co-executive director of Make the Road New York, a left-of-center community organizing group aligned with liberal expansionist immigration policy and left-of-center labor union interests. Early Life Axt earned her undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University

Howard Zinn was a professor of history at Boston University and a left-wing political activist who described himself as “something of an anarchist, something of a socialist” and “maybe a democratic socialist.”

Andrea Mitchell is a television journalist who is the host of “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on cable news network MSNBC. 1 She is also the chief Washington correspondent and the chief foreign affairs correspondent

Michael Podhorzer is the assistant to the president for strategic research for the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the largest federation of labor unions in the United States. 1  Podhorzer was

Andy Stern is the former president of the Service Employees International Union. A longtime union official, Stern rose to the presidency1

Sheldon Whitehouse (born 19551) is a Democratic politician and the junior U.S. Senator for Rhode Island, serving since 2007. 2 He

CREDO Mobile (formerly Working Assets) is a cell-phone company that explicitly uses its profits to support left-wing causes. Through doing business with CREDO its customers “fund progressive causes and power social activism.” 1 Left-of-center groups

The A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI) is a 501(c)(3) “constituency group” of the AFL-CIO for African-American union members. APRI was founded in 1965, and advocates for the agenda of the AFL-CIO at the state and federal level, using litigation and legislative pressure. Organization Overview The A. Philip Randolph Institute