Why Donor Organizing?: Sources

• Donor organizers play a little-known, highly-impactful role in our movements: In 2024 alone, donor organizers raised $203 million+ from friends and family for progressive causes and strategies across the country - from base building to electoral to mutual aid.

  • $203 million+ raised comes from volunteer donor organizations’ websites and newsletters and interviews with donor organizers. Unfortunately, this number is likely underestimated, given how much donor organizing work across the nation is currently untracked.

  • Note: This number is continually updated as Donor Organizer Hub confirms with more donor organizers how much they’ve raised. Last updated 1/29/2024.

• There is still plenty of room to grow our impact: Only 1% of all Americans gave $200 or more to political causes in the 2024 cycle, and just 0.5% did in 2022.

  • Source: OpenSecrets

• The stakes today are even higher than in 2024: Reproductive rights, gun safety, our environment, and voting rights are all in jeopardy.

• What if you could play a key role in rewriting this narrative? Donor organizers are people just like you. Most had never raised a penny before 2018.

  • “Most had never raised a penny before 2018” comes from over 150 interviews and conversations with current donor organizers.