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Neighborhood Funders Group is a left-of-center philanthropic membership organization and grant maker. Its members and funding partners include some of the most powerful groups in left-of-center philanthropy. Its funding areas and strategies are influenced by concepts like critical race theory, decoloniality, organized labor, wealth redistribution, LGBTQ advocacy, and climate justice.
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The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) is an abortion advocacy group which frequently sues to stop and/or overturn pro-life laws in the United States and internationally. Founded in 1992, CRR’s revenues totaled nearly $32,000,000 in 2016.
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New Jersey Policy Perspective is a left-of-center policy advocacy organization focused primarily on state-level issues in the state of New Jersey. The organization advocates for left-of-center positions on racial and economic issues, immigration policy, and climate change.
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Fe Y Justicia Workers Center (FYJWC) is a left-of-center worker center that provides a gathering place and organizing network for low-wage workers in Houston, Texas. 1 The organization provides low-wage workers with
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The Indivisible Project (or Indivisible) is a left-of-center 501(c)(4) tax-exempt organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., and created in late 2016 as a response to the election of President Donald Trump. The Indivisible Project was established to provide liberals a practical guide for “Resisting the Trump Agenda.”
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Hamilton “Ham” Fish V is a liberal activist who has financially supported or published numerous liberal political journals, including The Nation, the New Republic, and the Washington Spectator. In November 2017, Fish resigned as publisher of the New Republic following allegations that he had sexually harassed female
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Also see The Nation (for-profit) TYPE Media Center, until 2019 known as The Nation Institute, is a 501(c)(3) “nonprofit media center”1 that uses a variety of different programs to promote “progressive values across as
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Also see Democracy Fund Voice (Non-profit) The Democracy Fund is a left-of-center public policy-oriented foundation chaired and soely funded by eBay founder and former chairman Pierre Omidyar.1
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Patrick Gaspard is the president of the left-leaning Center for American Progress. Gaspard is a Democratic political operative who previously worked as president of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), the principal philanthropic entities of left-of-center billionaire George Soros, from 2017 until late 2020. Prior to joining OSF, Gaspard
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Christopher Stone was the president of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), the principal philanthropic vehicle for liberal billionaire George Soros, from 2011 to 2017. An academic with a focus on liberalizing criminal justice before joining OSF, he returned to academia as the “Professor of Practice of Public Integrity”
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Living Cities is a grantmaking and advocacy organization that consists of business and nonprofit organizations. It promotes economic, infrastructure, and development policies that align with left-wing societal objectives. Founded in 2001, Living Cities started out supporting mostly neighborhood-level projects before adopting a broader and more activist approach beginning in 2007.
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Tom Perriello is a former Democratic Congressman from Virginia who ran unsuccessfully for the party’s 2017 gubernatorial nomination. From 2018 to July 2023, Perriello served as executive director for U.S. programs at the Open Society Foundations, the private philanthropic network of George Soros.
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William Hall Janeway is a left-of-center economist and policy advocate. He is the co-founder of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), a think tank founded in 2010 with the financial backing of billionaire financier and left-of-center philanthropist George Soros that pushes for increased government involvement in the
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The John Merck Fund was a left-of-center grantmaking institution that supported left-leaning organizations and policies on subjects such as abortion, “climate justice,” human rights, and nuclear disarmament. 1 It provided substantial grants to organizations such
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Faithful America is a left-of-center activist group which protests center-right policies and runs campaigns related to various social issues.1 From 2013 to 2018, Faithful America had operated as a project of the Citizen Engagement Lab
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Not to be confused with Demand Progress Action (PAC) Demand Progress Action (DPA) is a left-of-center organization that advocates for policies relating to foreign policy and civil liberties.
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Neera Tanden is a long-time confidante of the Clinton political family and a former Obama administration aide who served as president and CEO of the Center for American Progress (CAP), a left-of-center think tank cofounded by Democratic Party fixer John Podesta, from 2011 t0 2021. Neera Tanden was
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The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) is an advocacy group which claims to advocate for nonpartisan action on behalf of the Iranian-American community in domestic and foreign policy issues. In reality, NIAC pushes for a range of left-wing policy positions, including an end to all sanctions on the Iranian regime
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Andy Stern is the former president of the Service Employees International Union. A longtime union official, Stern rose to the presidency1
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The Center for Progressive Reform (CPR) is a left-of-center political research and activist organization which was founded in 2002 and is based in Washington, D.C. The center conducts studies which support its advocacy for its favored economic and social policies, including wealth redistribution, fossil-fuel usage restrictions, and preferential treatment of