Wednesday, May 21, 8 – 10pm EDT - Virtual
Grassroots Fundraising Training
You Geared Up, you Protected & Resisted, you got on that dialer more times than you can count. Or maybe you haven’t yet been in the streets or on the phone banks, but you are ready to step into your power and build the movement!
Our work is to organize more white people than ever before into the movement for racial justice and towards communities that work for ALL of us. While this moment is dark, this movement’s future is bright, and to build all that’s possible, it needs to be funded.
Come build your skills in preparation for the Spring Grassroots Fundraising Drive where a team of SURJ members from all over the country (including YOU?!), will spend 10 days collectively raising over $100,000!
Sign up for ONE of these two training times!
Our movements are most powerful when they’re funded by the base (that’s you!). Grassroots fundraising has been part of every successful movement in U.S. history, and it is being criminalized (like Trump going after ActBlue) precisely because organizing money is so powerful.
Fundraising in community gives us the capacity to organize more people, share the work of SURJ with new people and invite them into our work. We need your help to grow the base of people putting money on the line to challenge authoritarianism.
The Spring Fundraising Drive is a 10-day “sprint” from May 28-June 6. This fundraising drive is open for all SURJ members, new and experienced, from all class backgrounds.
Attendance at ONE of these two trainings is the first step to participate. We’ll get skilled up and prepare for the array of good, and sometimes sticky, conversations you’ll have about money as a donor organizer. See you there!
To register: Grassroots Fundraising Training · Showing Up for Racial Justice
“Making my goal was a very rejuvenating experience. After the fundraising drive, I felt more grounded in my SURJ membership than ever, and it was a surprising joy to share about my work with SURJ while asking for support from my community.” - Elma, Grassroots Fundraiser, Spring ‘24
“I expected to be more nervous about reaching out to people from a few decades ago, but coaches and others suggested that people might be happy that I thought of them for this campaign. And that turned out to be very true! People thanked me for asking them for money and for giving them something to put their anxiety into!” - Margaret, Grassroots Fundraiser, Fall ‘24