The Proteus Fund has its origins in the wave of new funding strategies developed by activists and foundations in the 1980s. Margaret “Meg” Gage, the Fund’s founder and an anti-war…
The Piper Fund is the oldest of the Proteus Fund’s donor collaboratives, established in 1997. A lobbying arm hosted by the Proteus Action League, the Piper Action Fund, emerged sometime…
The Rights, Faith, and Democracy Collaborative (RFDC) is the Proteus Fund’s newest donor collaborative, launched in March 2017. RFDC might be considered the successor to the Civil Marriage Collaborative; where…
The Colombe Foundation (or Colombe Peace Foundation) is unique among the Proteus Fund’s donor collaboratives in that it’s a standalone nonprofit, not a fiscally sponsored project. Proteus established the foundation…
While the Proteus Fund isn’t the most prolific fiscal sponsor on the Left—a title surely contested by both Arabella Advisors’ nonprofit network and the Tides Foundation—the group has incubated a…
Professor Tim Groseclose, a Political Economist, has attempted to answer definitively if the media are biased, how biased, and what that means for the world around us. His research proves…
One of the central questions of our time is about whether or not capitalism can serve a moral purpose beyond simply providing good jobs at good wages. There have been…
In this episode: the Feds expand their investigation of the United Auto Workers with a nationwide series of raids, the Washington Post lets a radical leftist smear a conservative writer,…
The years when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state were, at the time, surprisingly quiet. The press largely accepted Hillary Clinton’s statement that Bill Clinton “was not the secretary of…
Bill Clinton began 2009 with one bit of unfinished business. One of his major backers after he left the White House was investor Ron Burkle, who ran a company called…