Search results for ‘common cause’


  • Person

    Will Menaker

    Will Menaker is one of three co-founders and regular co-hosts of Chapo Trap House (Chapo), a for-profit socialist podcast. As of March 2019, Chapo was grossing more than $120,000 per month through the website Patreon.
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    Mark Zuckerberg

    Mark Zuckerberg is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Facebook. Zuckerberg founded the company while at Harvard with classmates Andrew McCullum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin. He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are also active left-of-center advocacy philanthropists; in 2015, the couple founded the philanthropic limited liability
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    Priscilla Chan

    Priscilla Chan is a philanthropist, a physician, and the wife of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. In 2015, the couple founded the philanthropic limited liability company Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI); its charitable arm, the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation; and its political arm, Chan Zuckerberg Advocacy.
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    Nick Gourevitch

    Nick Gourevitch is a partner and managing director of research at the Global Strategy Group, a public affairs and research firm for left-liberal campaigns, causes, and other partner organizations. The group also claims to be the largest Democratic polling firm in the country. Moreover, he is a pollster for
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    Stop Payday Predators

    Stop Payday Predators is a left-of-center financial services policy advocacy organization. The group is a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a 501(c)(4) funding and fiscal sponsorship organization managed by the Washington, D.C.-based consultancy Arabella Advisors and are a Project of the organization Sixteen Thirty Fund.
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    Tax Plan Answers

    Tax Plan Answers is a left-leaning tax policy advocacy organization. The group is a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a funding and fiscal sponsorship organization for left-progressive lobbying projects managed by the Washington, D.C.-based consultancy Arabella Advisors.
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    Sunrise Movement

    The Sunrise Movement, often referred to as “Sunrise,” is a left-of-center 501(c)(4) environmental advocacy organization founded in 2017. The group endorses liberal and far-left Democratic Party candidates for public office and organizes alongside other activist organizations to support expansive and radical environmentalist legislation it terms a “Green New Deal.”
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    Colcom Foundation

    The Colcom Foundation is a grantmaking organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that provides funding to advocacy groups that deal with causes related to immigration restriction, family policy, and environmental conservation. The foundation frames these issues as part of a larger global crisis which it describes as a “sixth mass extinction”
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    Scott Goodstein

    Scott Goodstein is a left-of-center advocacy organizer who runs the consulting firms Revolution Messaging and Catalyst Campaigns. He has been involved in launching several major political activist movements in the United States, including the Rock Against Bush campaign opposing the George W. Bush administration and several activism projects
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    Campion Foundation

    The Campion Foundation is a private foundation created and funded by Tom and Sonya Campion. It supports left-leaning environmentalism and left-of-center public policy organizations such as the New Venture Fund, the Center for American Progress, TSNE Missionworks, the Alaska Wilderness League, and the League of
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    Iowa Policy Project

    The Iowa Policy Project (IPP) is a left-of-center advocacy group that conducts research on areas of the environment, tax and budgets, family issues, and economic prosperity specific to the state of Iowa. It is a member of the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) coalition backed by the labor-union aligned Economic
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    Needmor Fund

    The Needmor Fund was founded in 1956 by Duane Stranahan, a member of the Stranahan family that formed the Champion Spark Plug Company, and his wife Virginia Secor Stranahan who came from a wealthy Ohio family. The Needmor Fund is still operated by the Stranahan family as of 2019 and
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    Google

    Google is a Mountain View, California-based multinational technology company and subsidiary of Alphabet, Inc. Google is considered one of the Big Four technology companies which includes Facebook, Apple, and Amazon.
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    Maryland Public Interest Research Group (MaryPIRG) Foundation

    The Maryland Public Interest Research Group Foundation, also known as MaryPIRG Foundation, is a left of center advocacy organization that was founded in 1975, is the “charitable” research and policy arm of its sister lobbying organization, the Maryland Public Interest Research Group (MaryPIRG). The foundation does research and collects
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    Colorado Fiscal Institute

    The Colorado Fiscal Institute (CFI) is a left-of-center nonprofit organization which supports the implementation of left-of-center fiscal policy in Colorado. Most of CFI’s advocacy has supported the repeal of the taxpayer bill of rights (TABOR), a provision of the Colorado constitution that requires that legislators get voter approval before implementing
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    Our Story Hub

    Our Story is a project of the Proteus Fund established to work with left-of-center advocacy organizations and elected leaders on communication strategies and messaging. Our Story provides consulting services to facilitate the development and dissemination of left-of-center political propaganda. Our Story provides previously developed “narratives,” designed to be “used
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    Aria Foundation

    The ARIA Foundation, Inc. is the private foundation founded and funded by the late former Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) vice chairman Adam Albright. The foundation serves to make gifts to educational, environmentalist, LGBT-interest, and other left-of-center organizations.
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    American Documentary

    American Documentary, Inc., (AmDoc; sometimes styled American Documentary | POV) presents left-of-center documentary films in association with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and its local affiliates. It has premiered more than 400 documentaries since 1988.
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    SumofUs

    SumOfUs is an environmentalist organization which pressures businesses to adopt left-of-center policies on the environment and animal liberation. It is also involved in other left-leaning issues such as pro-abortion advocacy, support for gun control, and pro-Palestinian activism. Funding In 2017, SumOfUs reported receiving $5.4 million in grants and contributions.
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    Barr Foundation

    The Barr Foundation is a Boston-based private foundation created in 1987 by telecommunications billionaire418 Amos Barr Hostetter, Jr. and largely endowed from the proceeds of the $10.8 billion sale of Continental Cablevision to US