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Center for Popular Democracy
US progressive political organization From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) is an American advocacy group that promotes progressive politics.[3][4][5] CPD is a federation of groups that includes some of the old chapters of ACORN.[6] The group's stated goal is to "unapologetically demand transformational change for Black, brown and low-income communities."[7] The organization is allied with teachers' unions and has published studies criticizing charter schools.[8][9]
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The organization gained national prominence during the protests over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the United States Supreme Court. One of the organization's co-executive directors, Ana Maria Archila, confronted U.S. Senator Jeff Flake over his support for the judge[10][11] and other activists had questions for U.S. Senator Rand Paul.[12]
Private prisons
CPD has run a years-long campaign against private prisons, and prison companies have warned investors that activist groups are a threat to their future profitability.[13] This notice to investors came after lenders like JP Morgan Chase bowed to pressure from CPD and other groups and agreed to stop doing business with prison companies.[14]
Local Progress
Local Progress started as a project of CPD, and works to organize grassroots groups with progressive politicians. It was founded in 2012 to connect progressive politicians so they could share policy ideas and model legislation.[15][16][17] Previous Local Progress board members include Brad Lander, Helen Gym, Gregorio Casar, Phillipe Cunningham, Tefere Gebre, and Lorena González.[18] In 2022, Local Progress spun off from CPD and became its own distinct 501(c)3 and 501(c)4 organizations - now known as Local Progress and the Local Progress Impact Lab] .
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CPD has received funding from the Bauman Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Democracy Alliance,[6] and the Open Society Foundations.[19][20][21][22] It also receives funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.[23]
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