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** Dear John,
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I remember sitting in a community meeting in Washington, DC and watching my neighbors — parents, seniors, young people — tell elected officials what they needed. The requests were simple: safer streets, reliable transit, better access to services. Too often, those voices met polite promises and little follow-through. At Lupine Trust, our work has always been about reducing poverty in the DC Metro region, but we realized a hard truth: Funding immediate relief without fixing the systems that shape policy is like bailing water from a sinking ship without repairing the hull.

That’s why, three years ago, we began supporting FairVote. We continue to support local non-profits that help those in need, but we also invest in stronger democratic systems. Elections that use ranked choice voting yield better leaders, and better leaders make decisions that change budgets, priorities, and lives. This year, we contributed to FairVote’s new Impact Fund to help scale reforms that make local government more responsive.
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FairVote’s work produces local wins – reforms in DC, Takoma Park, Greenbelt, Arlington, and Charlottesville – and improvements across the nation that strengthen civic participation and hold officials accountable. Even modest improvements in how local government functions translate into outsized benefits: Our annual grants are in the thousands, while DC’s budget runs in the tens of billions. If ranked choice voting nudges government performance even 1% in the right direction, that ripple becomes hundreds of millions of dollars in better outcomes for residents.

I’m asking you to consider where you place your philanthropic dollars. Donating to FairVote helps change how power is wielded in our communities — giving all people the representation they deserve. Please join Lupine Trust in supporting FairVote’s work so more communities can follow this path forward for a stronger, more responsive democracy.

With thanks,

Alex Busbee

Trustee, Lupine Trust
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