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Nicholas Weininger's avatar

I feel like ALEC and CEI should be more explicitly coded Republican. They may be nominally non partisan but in practice they are very much Red Team in terms of who they work with and who works against them. The Future Now Fund was for instance founded as an explicit counterweight to ALEC; the current iteration of that part of their mission, if I understand correctly, is Lawmaker Network, https://thelawmakernetwork.org/.

This matters if you are trying to broaden an abundance agenda coalition, because much (most?) of the intellectual left sees ALEC and CEI as working corruptly as an arm of the GOP to shield bad corporate actors from liability (e.g. for pollution or mistreating workers), and it is at least possible that they do some of that alongside real abundance-unlocking advocacy work.

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Jason Crawford's avatar

Also: Arnold Ventures. Not sure what they've done on “abundance” in the past, but they are hiring now for a VP-level role to focus on this: https://www.arnoldventures.org/careers/vice-president-of-infrastructure

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