The New World Foundation (NWF) was founded in 1954 by Anita McCormick Blaine, the daughter of industrialist Cyrus H. McCormick who helped invent the mechanical reaper and widow of Emmons Blaine, a railroad executive and son of Republican politician James G. Blaine. In her own right, McCormick Blaine was a staunch Progressive activist, even supporting the 1948 Presidential campaign of Communist Party USA-backed Progressive Party candidate Henry Wallace. 1
Over the past 65 years, McCormick Blaine’s New World Foundation has supported hundreds of left-of-center organizations. NWF now operates as a community foundation, taking donations from many prominent Democratic, liberal, and left-progressive donors. Today the foundation’s funding priorities focus on activist training, left-leaning environmentalist policy, support for expansionist immigration policy including legal status for illegal immigrants, and furthering the power of organized labor in the US and abroad.
The NWF uses long term grants to create, fund, recruit, train, and manage locally sourced groups. NWF distributes money from donors through four funds: New Majority Fund, Phoenix Fund, Climate Action Fund, and Civic Opportunities Initiative Network (COIN).
NWF president Colin Greer has led the New World Foundation since 1985. He also worked for the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on education policy while she was the first lady. Clinton served on the board of the NWF from 1982 to 19881 She was also a contributor to internationalist organizations, including the World Federalist Movement, an organization seeking worldwide political integration. 17
Notable Board Members
Fred Azcarate is a current NWF board member and the executive director of US Action, a left-of-center advocacy group. 18
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