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Organization Trends
“To Encourage the Others”: Making an Example of the NSBA
The National School Boards Association (NSBA) messed up big time. It sent a letter to the Biden administration calling on the Justice Department to investigate protesting parents under the PATRIOT…
by Michael Watson on December 10, 2021

Philanthropy
Give to the Causes You Love on Giving Tuesday 2021
No country does philanthropy like America. Nothing better expresses that charitable spirit than Giving Tuesday, the tradition started in 2012 as a way to support nonprofits working on a host…
by Hayden Ludwig on November 30, 2021

Organization Trends
Shining a Light on the Left’s 2020 Shadow Campaign
Kristen Eastlick, senior vice president at Capital Research Center, spoke on a panel at CPAC 2021 discussing the Left's increasing dominance of the nonprofit world, CRC's work on Antifa, and…
by Kristen Eastlick on March 18, 2021

CRC in the News
2020 Year in Review
CRC had a busy 2020. In mid-2020, CRC exposed how the Center for Tech and Civic life, a nonprofit founded by veteran organizers of the Democratic Party and armed with…
by CRC Staff on March 1, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Hillary the Hedge Fund
Short selling—borrowing an investment and betting it will go down in value before you owe it back—is extremely dangerous, as the trajectory of GameStop stock has shown over the past…
by Ken Braun on February 16, 2021

Philanthropy
Are You Ready for Giving Tuesday?
Americans are the most generous people in the world. Nothing illustrates that better than Giving Tuesday, a philanthropy tradition started in 2012 as a way to fund nonprofits focusing on…
by Hayden Ludwig on December 1, 2020

Featured Items
Happy Birthday, InfluenceWatch!
Since launching launched three years ago on August 31/September 1, 2017, InfluenceWatch has grown to more than 7,500 pages and over 2,000 full profiles. For increasing numbers of the media,…
by Jon Rodeback on September 1, 2020

Organization Trends
Democracy Alliance Conferences on InfluenceWatch
The Democracy Alliance, a donor collective that steers contributions to left-of-center organizations, holds semi-annual conferences for donors and organization representatives. Beyond providing a forum for speakers and panelists, the conferences…
by Robert Stilson on August 20, 2020

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast Episode 16: Cambridge Analytica
In this episode: Trump-connected political consultancy and data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica has singlehandedly dropped Facebook’s stock value over 10 percent. Why? A major scandal involving user data accompanied by…
by CRC Staff on March 22, 2018

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InfluenceWatch Podcast Episode 15: #GunControl Now vs. #2A
In this episode: In the wake of the Parkland, Florida school massacre, anti-gun advocates have once again argued that this is the moment for stricter gun control measures. Who are they,…
by CRC Staff on March 15, 2018