Progressive Future Network

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

Final Score 20* D - Extractive

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material29
Bonus+3
Cap35Ownership <= 2 and Governance <= 2
After Cap32
Penalties-12
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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
?
Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
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.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • 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. [1]
  • context Progressive Future Network's public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities. [2]
  • context Progressive Future Network's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity. [3]
  • context 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. [4]
  • context 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. [5]
  • context 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. [6]
  • context 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. [7]
  • context Progressive Future Network's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product. [8]
  • context Progressive Future Network's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both. [9]
Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
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.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • context 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. [1]
  • Progressive Future Network's public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities. [2]
  • context Progressive Future Network's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity. [3]
  • context 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. [4]
  • context 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. [5]
  • context 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. [6]
  • context 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. [7]
  • context Progressive Future Network's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product. [8]
  • context Progressive Future Network's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both. [9]
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
4 / 10

Progressive Future Network's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • context 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. [1]
  • context Progressive Future Network's public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities. [2]
  • Progressive Future Network's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity. [3]
  • context 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. [4]
  • context 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. [5]
  • context 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. [6]
  • context 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. [7]
  • context Progressive Future Network's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product. [8]
  • context Progressive Future Network's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both. [9]
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.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • context 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. [1]
  • context Progressive Future Network's public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities. [2]
  • context Progressive Future Network's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity. [3]
  • 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. [4]
  • context 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. [5]
  • context 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. [6]
  • context 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. [7]
  • context Progressive Future Network's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product. [8]
  • context Progressive Future Network's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both. [9]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
?
Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
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.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • context 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. [1]
  • context Progressive Future Network's public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities. [2]
  • context Progressive Future Network's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity. [3]
  • context 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. [4]
  • 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. [5]
  • context 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. [6]
  • context 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. [7]
  • context Progressive Future Network's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product. [8]
  • context Progressive Future Network's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both. [9]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
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.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • context 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. [1]
  • context Progressive Future Network's public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities. [2]
  • context Progressive Future Network's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity. [3]
  • context 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. [4]
  • context 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. [5]
  • 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. [6]
  • context 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. [7]
  • context Progressive Future Network's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product. [8]
  • context Progressive Future Network's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both. [9]
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • context 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. [1]
  • context Progressive Future Network's public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities. [2]
  • context Progressive Future Network's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity. [3]
  • context 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. [4]
  • context 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. [5]
  • context 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. [6]
  • 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. [7]
  • context Progressive Future Network's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product. [8]
  • context Progressive Future Network's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both. [9]
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
3 / 5

Progressive Future Network's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • context 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. [1]
  • context Progressive Future Network's public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities. [2]
  • context Progressive Future Network's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity. [3]
  • context 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. [4]
  • context 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. [5]
  • context 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. [6]
  • context 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. [7]
  • Progressive Future Network's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product. [8]
  • context Progressive Future Network's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both. [9]
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
3 / 5

Progressive Future Network's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • context 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. [1]
  • context Progressive Future Network's public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities. [2]
  • context Progressive Future Network's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity. [3]
  • context 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. [4]
  • context 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. [5]
  • context 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. [6]
  • context 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. [7]
  • context Progressive Future Network's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product. [8]
  • Progressive Future Network's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both. [9]

Penalties

Penalty Applied Why this penalty
Policy Capture
?
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.
-3

Progressive Future Network's own materials describe policy advocacy, lobbying, candidate support, public-pressure campaigns, or citizen mobilization aimed at changing public rules.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • Progressive Future Network's own materials describe policy advocacy, lobbying, candidate support, public-pressure campaigns, or citizen mobilization aimed at changing public rules. [13]
Youth Capture
?
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.
-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.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • 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. [14]
Accountability Opacity
?
Material opacity, reputation laundering, or hidden accountability structures that prevent public accountability. Range: -2 to 0.
-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.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • 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. [15]
Identity Capture
?
Customer pressure, employee pressure, and pervasive identity saturation. Range: -3 to 0.
-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.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • 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. [16]
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.
-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.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • 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. [17]

Bonus Credits

Bonus Credit Why this credit
Constitutional Spirit
?
Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms even where private law does not strictly require it.
1 / 3

Progressive Future Network's work uses research, litigation, public education, policy advocacy, or electoral engagement to contest stronger institutions through civic channels.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • Progressive Future Network's work uses research, litigation, public education, policy advocacy, or electoral engagement to contest stronger institutions through civic channels. [10]
Good Deal
?
Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
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.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • 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. [11]
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.
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.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • 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. [12]

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

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
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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.

Ownership Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

2Progressive Future Network's public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities.

Governance Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

3Progressive Future Network's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity.

Extraction Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

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.

Labor Sovereignty Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

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.

Solidarity Unemployed Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

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.

Loss Bearing Fidelity Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

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.

Market Conduct Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

8Progressive Future Network's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product.

Product Integrity Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

9Progressive Future Network's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both.

Scale Integrity Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

10Progressive Future Network's work uses research, litigation, public education, policy advocacy, or electoral engagement to contest stronger institutions through civic channels.

Constitutional Spirit Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

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.

Good Deal Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

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.

Cost Transparency Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

13Progressive Future Network's own materials describe policy advocacy, lobbying, candidate support, public-pressure campaigns, or citizen mobilization aimed at changing public rules.

Policy Capture Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

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.

Youth Capture Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

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.

Accountability Opacity Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

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.

Identity Capture Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

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.

Ideological Disavowal Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

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