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The Instructional Telecommunications Foundation, doing business as Voqal, is a lobbying nonprofit which advocates for left-of-center policies, including increased government regulation of public broadcasting. Voqal provides substantial funding to groups involved with the Democracy Alliance, a donor collaborative for high-profile funding groups on the Left. Voqal generates revenue by
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Sandor Straus is a California-based mathematician and financial investment consultant who is a major donor to Democratic Party candidates and affiliated organizations in the United States.
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Bill McKibben is an influential environmentalist author and activist. A former journalist who wrote a seminal book in the anthropogenic global warming movement, McKibben founded the environmentalist organization 350.org and has been involved in the People’s Climate Marches movement. McKibben’s first book, The End of Nature, has been
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The Niskanen Center is a nominally libertarian 501(c)(3) environmental think tank with ties to center-left environmental groups. The Center was created in January 2015 and was initially headed by Jerry Taylor, a global warming advocate and environmental activist who authored a 2015 report The Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax.
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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
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Robin Hood is a left-leaning nonprofit associated with the financial industry that has been criticized for ineffectiveness at its stated mission of alleviating poverty in New York City despite massive fundraising successes.
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American Federation of Teachers Education Fund (AFTEF) is the educational and charitable branch of the American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest labor union in the United States principally representing teachers. The primary goal of the organization is to advocate for teachers’ union-aligned public education policies in the United States.
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Keith Ellison is a Democratic politician and lawyer who currently serves as Attorney General of Minnesota. 1 He is a former U.S. Representative and Minnesota state
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Robert Reich is a left-of-center lawyer, professor, author and public figure who served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1997. As Secretary of Labor Reich promoted most of the generally centrist economic policies of the administration, such as the North Atlantic Free Trade
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American Jobs Alliance (AJA) is a labor union-aligned anti-trade organization that opposes free trade policies and supports higher tariffs and a national industrial-planning policy with the stated of creating jobs in the United States.
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The Working Families Alliance is a 501(c)(4) political organization headquartered in Newark, New Jersey and affiliated with the Working Families Organization, a left-wing political organization and offshoot of New York’s labor union-backed Working Families Party. Working Families Alliance is aligned with labor unions like the American Federation
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly known as the ACA, Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare) is major health care legislation passed in 2010 by the 111th Congress and signed by President Barack Obama. Over 900 pages long, the ACA includes a bundle of statues and regulations intended
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The Sarah Scaife Foundation was created by Sarah Mellon Scaife, the niece of industrialist, philanthropist, and former Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon. Under her son and successor, Richard Mellon Scaife, the foundation supports center-right public policy organizations. Sarah Mellon Scaife Sarah Mellon Scaife, according to a 2016 essay by Carnegie
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Xavier Becerra is a Democratic politician, former Congressman, and former attorney general of California, who has been U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Biden Administration since March 2021.
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The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is a left-of-center organization that seeks to end hunger by lobbying in support of increasing taxpayer-funded nutrition programs, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and free school meals.
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Rosa Luxemburg Foundation New York City (in German, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, RLS-NYC) is the New York City office of Germany’s socialist-aligned Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, which is named after self-described “radical leftist” and early 20th-century leader of the European socialist movement Rosa Luxemburg.
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The National Low Income Housing Policy Center (NLIHPC) is an advocacy and lobbying organization focused on affordable housing for low-income groups. The NLIHPC campaigns to preserve existing federal assistance for housing, to expand the availability of low-income housing, and to end homelessness.
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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
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For more information, see Open Society Foundations (Nonprofit) Alliance for Open Society International (AOSI) is the legal operating name for Open Society Institute Baltimore, the only U.S. field office for the Open Society Foundations, one of the primary foundations of liberal billionaire George Soros. Alliance for Open
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For more information, see American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (Nonprofit) The ADC Research Institute (ADCRI) is an affiliate of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) and a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit.. It was founded in 1982 by former U.S. Senator James Abourezk (D-S.D.). The ADCRI’s principal activity is teaching Arab-Americans about their