New Organizing Institute

The New Organizing Institute is a collection of Democratic Party campaign staff who are suspected of suppressing opposition to the propaganda of Russia, Saudi Arabia, and other foreign powers on major U.S. internet services in exchange for foreign funding from these countries.

Leadership

New Organizing Institute

The New Organizing Institute form 990 for the year 2014 lists three officers:

• Judith Freeman - President. Worked on the campaigns of John Kerry in 2004 and Barack Obama in 2008.
• Ethan Roeder - Executive Director. Was the National Data Director for President Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns.
• James Rucker - Board Member. Grassroots Mobilization Director for MoveOn.org Political Action and co-founder of Color of Change.

The organization listed $1 million in revenue and $1.2 million in expenses.

Education Fund

The New Organizing Institute Education Fund form 990 for 2014 lists three officers:

• Robert Biko Baker - Director.
• Becky Bond - Director.
• Ethan Roeder - Executive Director.

In addition, the form lists Natasha Olinger as its bookkeeper.

The New Organizing Institute Education Fund claimed over $4 million in revenues and $5 million in expenses in the year 2014.

Grants issued by the New Organizing Institute Education Fund include:

• $285,000 to the Business Federation Civic Fund of Portland, Oregon
• $225,488 to Color of Change
• $152,583 to Get Equal 6304 of Riverdale, MD
• $129,460 to Berim of Sara Haghdoosti, who is a partner in the SumOfUs network
• $129,037 to SumOfUs
• $110,301 to Progressve Change Institute of Washington, DC
• $108,599 to Noora Health of Palo Alto, CA
• $103,690 to Chicago Votes of Chicago, IL
• $100,000 to the Analyst Institute of Washington, DC
• $99,750 to Heartland Initiatives of Atlanta, GA
• $56,007 to Food Democracy Now of Clear Lake, IA
• $35,060 to 350Vermont which is partnered with 350.org of Bill McKibben and May Boeve
• $32,627 to the Center for Rights of Boston, MA
• $15,230 to Social Movement Technologies of Bloomfield, CT
• $15,177 to Rhize of Brooklyn, NY
• $13,779 to the Tides Foundation of San Francisco, CA

Partners

Members of the New Organizing Institute listed in a June 2007 press release include:

• AFL-CIO: Judith Freeman, Seth Michaels, Alison Omens, Bernard Pollack, Lenny Sapozhnikov, Steve Smith, Eileen Toback, Trish Welte
• AFSCME: John Kenyon
• America's Impact: Karen Mulhauser
• Americans Against Escalation in Iraq: Cammie Croft, Kate Snyder
• ARA: Kate Stayman-London, Ben Waxman
• Arab American Institute: Jennifer Audrey Kauffman
• Brad Bauman
• Blue State Digital: Clay Johnson, Lauren Miller, Katelyn Sabochik
• Bullseye: Keith Goodman
• Change to Win: Jake Kohlman, Tina Lax
• Common Good Strategies: Mara Vanderslice
• DCene: Adam Rosenberg
• Democracy In Action: Chris Lundberg, April Pederson
• Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: Taryn Rosenkranz
• Democratic GAIN: Jenn Waldman
• Democratic National Commitee: Stephanie Taylor
• Dupont Circle Communications: Margot Friedman
• Harbour Group: Courtney Sieloff
• Envision Communications: Maura Dougherty
• epolitics.com: Colin Delany
• Caleb Gibson
• Erin Hofteig
• IDI: Cheryl Contee
• Indelium: David Jeffers
• Internet Advocacy Center: Alan Rosenblatt
• Joint Concepts: Raj Aggarwal
• Rosalyn "Roz" Lemieux
• Massey Media: Tom Adkins
• Mission Control: Amy Pritchard
• MoveOn: Tom Matzzie
• MSHC: Michael Bassik
• MyDD: Matt Stoller
• mySociety/PledgeBank: Heather Cronk
• NAACP: Stefanie L. Brown (NAACP Youth & College Division)
• OMP: Zack Exley
• ONE Campaign: Michelle Dixon
• Rad Campaign: Allyson Kapin
• Erica Sagrans
• Solidarity DC: Michael Artz
• SEIU: Desiree Hoffman, Marcus Mrowka
• Squier Knapp Dunn: Samantha Warfield
• The Organizing Group: Melissa Roy
• Trellon: Howard Park
• United Steelworkers: Kyle McDermott
• U.S. District of Colombia Shadow Representative: Mike Panetta
• Greg White
• Win Without War: Melissa Byrne
• Winning Connections: John Jameson
• Working America: Dave Engledow
• Working America: Tahir Duckett

Members of the New Organizing Institute Advisory Board listed in the same press release:

• Allen Gunn (Aspiration)
• Amanda Michel (Berkman Foundation),
• Michael Silberman (Echoditto)
• Andrew Hoppin (Civicspace Labs)
• Ari Rabin-Havt (DNC)
• Bill Pease (Convio)
• David Taylor (Activist Mobilization Platform)
• Eli Pariser (MoveOn.org Civic Action)
• James Rucker (ColorOfChange.org)
• Joan Blades (MomsRising.org)
• Joe Rospars (Blue State Digital)
• John Aravosis (AMERICABlog)
• Josh Ross (Mayfield Strategy Group)
• Leda Dederich (dot.Organize)
• Madeline Stanionis (Watershed)
• Marty Kearns (Green Media Toolshed)
• Matt Stoller (MyDD)
• Mike Podhorzer (AFL-CIO)
• Nathaniel Pearlman (NGP)
• Nick Allen (Donor Digital)
• Rachna Choudhry (National Partnership for Women and Families)
• Susan Markham (Campaign Corps)

Edelman and foreign funding sources

Adam Rosenberg of DCEne was the Edelman company's Senior Account Supervisor for Social Strategy at the time of Gamergate.

Led editorial content strategy, paid social and community management teams for multiple accounts.

Authored Edelman points-of-view to create IP around digital influencer and advocacy approaches.

Served as agency-wide strategic lead for all things Facebook

At this time, Edelman had a Saudi business led by Omar Qirem who had formerly been a lead press officer for the British ministries of Health, Housing, Education, Industry, and Defence. Qirem would later serve as director of communications for the Abdul Latif Jameel corporation whose CEO Yousif Jameel was on the Golden Chain list of al-Qaeda financiers.

At this time, Stan Polovets of Russia's Alfa Group was Chairman for Russia and Eastern Europe at Edelman.

Censorship and racketeering

An anonymous user identified the ONE Campaign ("AJFA Track Four") as the team responsible for censoring discussions of Gamergate from the Internet.

Anil Dash, whose Expert Labs employs Clay Johnson of Blue State Digital, has a history of racketeering behavior targeting David Auerbach, Pax Dickinson, and Peter Thiel.

8chan identified Color of Change as the group pressuring Reddit's advertisers to boycott the site.