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Additionally, the [[Ford Foundation]] and the Borealis Philanthropy created the Black-led Movement Fund,<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/11/the-complex-funding-and-ideology-of-black-lives-matter/</ref> a funding vehicle for the Movement for Black Lives, the coalition of groups responsible for the extremist “Vision 4 Black Lives.”<ref>[https://borealisphilanthropy.org/grantmaking/black-led-movement-fund/ “Black-led Movement Fund.”] Borealis Philanthropy. </ref> The fund has received “pledges of more than 100 million dollars from liberal foundations and others eager to contribute.”
Additionally, the [[Ford Foundation]] and the Borealis Philanthropy created the Black-led Movement Fund,<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/11/the-complex-funding-and-ideology-of-black-lives-matter/</ref> a funding vehicle for the Movement for Black Lives, the coalition of groups responsible for the extremist “Vision 4 Black Lives.”<ref>[https://borealisphilanthropy.org/grantmaking/black-led-movement-fund/ “Black-led Movement Fund.”] Borealis Philanthropy. </ref> The fund has received “pledges of more than 100 million dollars from liberal foundations and others eager to contribute.”
==Foreign election interference==
Analysis by the Take Back Action Fund found that nearly half of all donations to [[ActBlue]] were made by people claiming to be unemployed. Action Fund President John Pudner said,
{{quotebox|"The name of employers must be disclosed when making political donations, but more than 4.7 million donations came from people who claimed they did not have an employer. Those 4.7 million donations totaled $346 million ActBlue raised and sent to liberal causes."}}
Pudner said the large number is a red flag that some donations may be illicit contributions from foreign interests attempting to impact U.S. elections.
ActBlue, created in 2004, bills itself as a "powerful online fundraising platform available to Democratic candidates and committees, progressive organizations, and nonprofits that share our values for no cost besides a 3.95% processing fee on donations....And we operate as a conduit, which means donations made through ActBlue to a campaign or organization are considered individual donations," its website explains. The website allows credit card donations that are not verified, so anyone from any country in the world can donate without a paper trail. Pudner said.
{{quotebox|"ActBlue's insistence on refusing to allow banks to verify their donations is an invitation to foreign programmers or others to send money through them using fake American names, and we encourage them to start letting banks verify the identity of donors to stop the potential for millions of dollars to influence our election.}}
The issue of unauthenticated political donations was brought to light by ''The Washington Post'' during the [[2008 presidential election]], which was at the time "allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid [[credit card]]s that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor's identity."<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exclusive-data-shows-that-half-of-2019-donations-to-actblue-came-from-untraceable-unemployed-donors</ref>}}
ActBlue does not allow banks to verify the identity of the cardholder, meaning someone could buy endless gift cards and list any name they wanted and leave the employer line blank or type in words like 'not employed,' 'unemployed.'
==See also==
==See also==