progressive advocacy incubator network
Progressive Future Network
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A progressive network that says it runs, incubates, and financially supports organizations committed to freedom, justice, fairness, rights, opportunity, and tolerance. It scores low because the public description is broad and value-heavy while giving limited operational transparency about governance, fund flows, and who controls supported organizations.
Why this matters: This is an adjacent activist-infrastructure entry rather than a consumer-service organization.
Letter grade D Extractive Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
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Evaluation Overview
D - Extractive
The score turns mainly on Solidarity with the Unemployed, with the largest penalty coming from Policy Capture.
Strengths
- Solidarity with the Unemployed5/7
- Extraction4/10
- Loss-Bearing Fidelity4/7
Penalties
- Policy Capture-3
- Identity Capture-3
- Ideological Disavowal-3
- Accountability Opacity-2
Evidence state
- ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
- ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
- Linked claims17
- Direct axis claims17
- Coverage17/17
Scoring Axes
| Axis | Score | Why this score |
|---|---|---|
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control
at 10.
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2 / 10 |
Progressive Future Network's public record identifies it as a nonprofit, advocacy network, recruiting organization, student group, research center, or electoral advocacy organization rather than a worker-owned or user-owned cooperative. Linked evidence
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Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
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2 / 10 |
Progressive Future Network's linked public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities. Linked evidence
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Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
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4 / 10 |
Progressive Future Network's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity. Linked evidence
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Labor Sovereignty
?
Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at
7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence
shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling,
retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of
worker voice, or extreme turnover.
|
3 / 7 |
Progressive Future Network's worker-power record is evaluated against public descriptions of staff roles, recruiting pipelines, canvassing work, union activity, or NLRB/labor records where available. Linked evidence
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Solidarity with the
Unemployed
?
Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
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5 / 7 |
Progressive Future Network's mission or services address public goods such as consumer protection, environmental health, democracy, education affordability, or pollution cleanup rather than ordinary private consumption. Linked evidence
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Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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4 / 7 |
Progressive Future Network's advocacy, research, organizing, or community-support work can shift some problem-solving costs away from isolated individuals and toward organized public action. Linked evidence
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Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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3 / 5 |
Progressive Future Network's conduct is evaluated as advocacy-market conduct: recruitment, canvassing, donor acquisition, student-fee funding, policy pressure, research publication, and public campaign framing. Linked evidence
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Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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3 / 5 |
Progressive Future Network's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product. Linked evidence
|
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
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3 / 5 |
Progressive Future Network's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both. Linked evidence
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Penalties
| Penalty | Applied | Why this penalty |
|---|---|---|
Policy Capture
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Private-interest attempts to bend law, regulation, subsidies, taxes,
enforcement, trade, labor, safety, competition, environmental,
healthcare, housing, surveillance, civil-liberties, or consumer policy
against workers, customers, citizens, affected communities, or
ecological life. Public-interest advocacy is not penalized merely
because it is lobbying. Range: -15 to 0.
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-3 |
Progressive Future Network's own materials describe policy advocacy, lobbying, candidate support, public-pressure campaigns, or citizen mobilization aimed at changing public rules. Linked evidence
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Youth Capture
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Manipulative youth-directed marketing, youth-data or attention
monetization, collectible/add-on traps, parasocial or identity capture,
surprise mechanics, or treating young people as lower-disclosure
consumers. Making useful toys or welcoming children is not itself
penalized. Range: -5 to 0.
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-1 |
Progressive Future Network's model recruits, trains, bills, or mobilizes students and young organizers, making youth-culture and early-career capture a direct axis-specific concern. Linked evidence
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Accountability Opacity
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Material opacity, reputation laundering, or hidden accountability
structures that prevent public accountability. Range: -2 to 0.
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-2 |
Progressive Future Network's public materials do not give a complete plain-language map of governance control, related entities, fund flows, staff power, and constituent consent. Linked evidence
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Identity Capture
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Customer pressure, employee pressure, and pervasive identity saturation.
Range: -3 to 0.
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-3 |
Progressive Future Network's mission framing can bind staff, students, donors, and volunteers to a moralized activist identity as well as to specific practical public goals. Linked evidence
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Ideological Disavowal
?
Concealed ideology presented as neutrality, expertise, professional
necessity, public-service administration, market inevitability, or
non-ideological common sense while exercising power. Range: -3 to 0.
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-3 |
Progressive Future Network's public language often presents a contested political program as public interest, fairness, science, democracy, or nonpartisan necessity rather than as an explicit ideological standpoint. Linked evidence
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Bonus Credits
| Bonus | Credit | Why this credit |
|---|---|---|
Constitutional Spirit
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Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms
even where private law does not strictly require it.
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1 / 3 |
Progressive Future Network's work uses research, litigation, public education, policy advocacy, or electoral engagement to contest stronger institutions through civic channels. Linked evidence
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Good Deal
?
Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low
lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
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1 / 3 |
Progressive Future Network's public-facing work can give people research, organizing help, consumer protection, environmental benefit, or civic capacity without ordinary purchase lock-in. Linked evidence
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Cost Transparency
?
Credit for clear posted prices, all-in fees, unit costs, public rate
cards, margin/cost visibility, or surplus-allocation transparency,
especially in markets where opaque quotes, hidden fees, or
individualized pricing are normal.
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1 / 3 |
Progressive Future Network's nonprofit status, public web materials, annual-report materials, or fee disclosures give some but incomplete transparency into the cost of its work. Linked evidence
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Confidence Basis
Confidence Basis
Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.
Medium 79/100
17 verified linked claims 17 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 17/17 components covered
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence 16/20
17 verified linked claims
Source quality 10/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims 14/18
17 direct claims across 17 active components
Dispute load 12/12
0 disputed claims on this entity
Recency 10/10
Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026
Reviewer status 7/12
Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding
Component coverage 10/10
17/17 evidence-bearing components have direct support
Evidence State
Evidence State
Claims and Sources
Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.1Progressive Future Network's public record identifies it as a nonprofit, advocacy network, recruiting organization, student group, research center, or electoral advocacy organization rather than a worker-owned or user-owned cooperative.
- Progressive Future NetworkGeneral web source · 58%
2Progressive Future Network's public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities.
- Progressive Future NetworkGeneral web source · 58%
3Progressive Future Network's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity.
- Progressive Future NetworkGeneral web source · 58%
4Progressive Future Network's worker-power record is evaluated against public descriptions of staff roles, recruiting pipelines, canvassing work, union activity, or NLRB/labor records where available.
- Progressive Future NetworkGeneral web source · 58%
5Progressive Future Network's mission or services address public goods such as consumer protection, environmental health, democracy, education affordability, or pollution cleanup rather than ordinary private consumption.
- Progressive Future NetworkGeneral web source · 58%
6Progressive Future Network's advocacy, research, organizing, or community-support work can shift some problem-solving costs away from isolated individuals and toward organized public action.
- Progressive Future NetworkGeneral web source · 58%
7Progressive Future Network's conduct is evaluated as advocacy-market conduct: recruitment, canvassing, donor acquisition, student-fee funding, policy pressure, research publication, and public campaign framing.
- Progressive Future NetworkGeneral web source · 58%
8Progressive Future Network's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product.
- Progressive Future NetworkGeneral web source · 58%
9Progressive Future Network's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both.
- Progressive Future NetworkGeneral web source · 58%
10Progressive Future Network's work uses research, litigation, public education, policy advocacy, or electoral engagement to contest stronger institutions through civic channels.
- Progressive Future NetworkGeneral web source · 58%
11Progressive Future Network's public-facing work can give people research, organizing help, consumer protection, environmental benefit, or civic capacity without ordinary purchase lock-in.
- Progressive Future NetworkGeneral web source · 58%
12Progressive Future Network's nonprofit status, public web materials, annual-report materials, or fee disclosures give some but incomplete transparency into the cost of its work.
- Progressive Future NetworkGeneral web source · 58%
13Progressive Future Network's own materials describe policy advocacy, lobbying, candidate support, public-pressure campaigns, or citizen mobilization aimed at changing public rules.
- Progressive Future NetworkGeneral web source · 58%
14Progressive Future Network's model recruits, trains, bills, or mobilizes students and young organizers, making youth-culture and early-career capture a direct axis-specific concern.
- Progressive Future NetworkGeneral web source · 58%
15Progressive Future Network's public materials do not give a complete plain-language map of governance control, related entities, fund flows, staff power, and constituent consent.
- Progressive Future NetworkGeneral web source · 58%
16Progressive Future Network's mission framing can bind staff, students, donors, and volunteers to a moralized activist identity as well as to specific practical public goals.
- Progressive Future NetworkGeneral web source · 58%
17Progressive Future Network's public language often presents a contested political program as public interest, fairness, science, democracy, or nonpartisan necessity rather than as an explicit ideological standpoint.
- Progressive Future NetworkGeneral web source · 58%
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