John—

We’re just hours out from our year-end deadline, and while we’re seeing a surge in support, it’s still not quite enough to close our budget gap for 2025.

Can you make a gift of $10 right now? Your donation will be MATCHED, meaning it goes twice as far to recruit and train young progressives preparing to run for office.

I want to be really clear about something: When you give to Run for Something, you’re not making a typical political donation.

You’re making it possible for a first-time candidate, a renter, a teacher, a caregiver, an organizer to decide they can actually run. When you give to RFS, you’re paying for:

• Coaching that helps a candidate say, “Yes, I can do this.”

• Mentorship from operatives and leaders with lived experience to share.

• Campaign tools that make a race competitive instead of symbolic.

• A community that reminds them they’re not doing this alone.

When those pieces come together, we bring real power back to real people. We flip red seats. We hold school boards. We transform city councils. And we build a bench of young leaders who’ll be winning even bigger races a decade from now.

We have just a few hours left and we still have ground to make up.

If you’re able, please make a year-end gift now. Any amount helps, and every dollar will be MATCHED.

When you give to RFS, you’re betting on a new generation of leaders, and that’s a bet worth making.

Thank you!

Sara Hadad
Chief Strategy Officer
Run for Something

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