eric kessler same name

 Eric Kessler is the founder of Arabella Advisors, a Washington, D.C.-based philanthropic consultant group, and previously served as the group’s principal and senior managing director. Arabella Advisors also manages a number of center-left funding and fiscal sponsorship organizations, including 501(c)(4) Sixteen Thirty Fund, 501(c)(3) New Venture Fund, 501(c)(3) Hopewell Fund, and 501(c)(3) Windward Fund. 1

Kessler is closely involved in Democratic Party and left-wing politics. He is a former Clinton administration White House appointee and previously served as national field director for the League of Conservation Voters. 2 Kessler later served as a member of the now-defunct Clinton Global Initiative. 3

Kessler chairs a committee on culinary advocacy for the center-left James Beard Foundation and is co-founder of the Chef Action Network. He also serves on the board of directors of the National Democratic Institute. 1

Shortly thereafter he became involved in the family’s philanthropy, the Family Alliance Foundation, based in Chicago. 4 In 2019, the foundation reported revenues of $209,794 and expenditures of $464,817, of which $382,881 was paid out as grants to organizations largely focused on food security and medical research. 6 Eric Kessler is a member of the foundation’s board of directors (as of 2019), alongside Barbara W. Kessler and Dennis L. Kessler, his parents. Dennis “Denny” Kessler is president and founder of Midwest Family Business Advisors, which advises family business owners on conflict resolution, strategic planning, and related small business services. 5

Kessler is reportedly the nephew of former Montana state Sen. Dan Weinberg (D-Whitefish), who served in the legislature from 2004 to 2008. 7 8

In the 1990s, Kessler joined the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, a nonprofit that advances a left-leaning vision of democracy in developing countries. As of 2020, he is also a board member for the institute. 9 He later joined the League of Conservation Voters, a left-wing environmental advocacy and get-out-the-vote group, as national field director. During the Clinton administration, Kessler worked under Department of the Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt (D). He founded Arabella Advisors, a consulting firm for foundations and left-leaning donors, in 2005. 4

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Publicly accessible data from sources like InfluenceWatch and Arabella Advisors confirm only that he was born in 1972. 

While there are records for other individuals named Eric Kessler with specific dates—such as a September 29, 1959, birthdate for a former athlete from Virginia or an July 18, 1968, date for an individual in Washington.

• Eric Kessler (Father): Jason's father, who has publicly distanced himself from his son's radical views, stated his family has never identified with racial politics.
• Eric Kessler (Philanthropist): Born in 1972; the founder of Arabella Advisors, a consulting firm for progressive donors. 

The commonality of the name "Eric Kessler

" has often caused public confusion between the progressive philanthropist and the father of the alt-right organizer.