Cecile Richards was a social activist who worked as president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 2006 through 2018.1 As president of

Andy Stern is the former president of the Service Employees International Union. A longtime union official, Stern rose to the presidency53

Sheldon Whitehouse (born 1955100) is a Democratic politician and the junior U.S. Senator for Rhode Island, serving since 2007. 101 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.” 173 Left-of-center groups

Ameinu is considered defunct, having merged with Americans for Peace Now (APN) to form New Jewish Narrative. Ameinu (Our People) was a left-of-center Israel advocacy group that merged with Americans for Peace Now in 2024 to become New Jewish Narrative.

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

The New Israel Fund (NIF) is a left-of-center grantmaking nonprofit which supports left-of-center social goals related to Israel. The organization refers to the Israeli Declaration of Independence as a philosophical foundation. The NIF is legally based in the United States but primarily focuses on developing Israeli civil society. The group

The American Center for International Labor Solidarity (commonly referred to as Solidarity Center) was founded in 1997 by the largest federation of labor unions in the United States, the AFL-CIO. Solidarity Center has offices all over the world and claims to be working with more than 400 labor unions

The Foundation for the Carolinas (FFTC) is a donor-advised fund provider established in 1958 that manages funds for 2,700 separate charitable individuals, families and organizations. 308

Jesse Jackson is a left-wing activist, preacher, former associate of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Democratic Party politician. Jackson was born in 1941 and ordained a Baptist minister in 1968. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1984 and

Keith Ellison is a Democratic politician and lawyer who serves as the Attorney General of Minnesota. 369  He is a former U.S. Representative and Minnesota state

TakeAction MN (TakeAction Minnesota) advocates for left-leaning causes and candidates in Minnesota. TakeAction MN advocates for raising taxes,

The Park Foundation is a left-of-center funding group for several of America’s most prominent environmentalist organizations. Led by left-of-center megadonor and heiress of the Duncan Hines foods and Park Communications media fortunes Adelaide Park Gomer, the foundation leads the movement to prohibit exploration for America’s natural gas resources.

The Coalition on Human Needs (CHN) is a left-of-center advocacy group headquartered in Washington, D.C., that promotes funding of domestic welfare programs by the federal government and opposes Republican-backed proposals to cut or reform entitlement programs. The group was founded in 1981 in opposition to President Ronald Reagan’s proposal

Jobs with Justice Education Fund (JWJEF) is a project of Jobs with Justice (JWJ), a left-of-center labor group primarily funded by labor unions

Young Invincibles (YI) is a left-of-center youth advocacy, research, grantmaking, and lobbying organization based in Washington, D.C. 547 Co-founded in 2009 by Ari Matsuiak, a special assistant to the President during

The Windward Fund is an environmentalist fiscal sponsor organization in the network of “dark money” organizations controlled by philanthropic consultancy Arabella Advisors. The Fund was created in February 2015 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with startup funding of $5.25 million provided by an unknown source. According to its bylaws, Windward

Vote Solar is a solar-energy advocacy organization that uses public engagement and coalition building to promote pro-solar-energy state-level regulatory and legislative agendas. 660 It focuses on addressing perceived inequities for “historically marginalized groups,”

The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) is a government worker union representing schoolteachers in New York City. It is an affiliate of the national American Federation of Teachers labor union as AFT Local 2 and the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and is one of the largest local unions

The United Farm Workers of America (UFW) is a labor union representing agricultural workers, mostly in the state of California. Cesar Chavez, a Mexican-American organizer and leader of the Chicano movement, founded the union; Chavez would become one of the best-known leaders of labor unionism in the 20th century through