New Jersey's influential teachers union, the New Jersey Education Association, overwhelmingly powered Gov. Phil Murphy's nonprofit that blasts out his policy wins and goals. The NJEA provided $6 million of the $6.5 million the social welfare nonprofit raised during the end of 2019 and all of 2020. New Direction New Jersey, a group run by former aides to the governor that can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money, reported that it also collected $175,000, from the union Greater PA Carpenters, $127,000 from the state's largest public workers union, the Communications Workers of America, $100,000 from real estate agency GP Management LLC and $75,000 from the Greater New Jersey Carpenters union.