I’m Kim Russell — I lead the finance team at Women’s March. I don’t usually write emails like this, but today I have a really important favor to ask. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

Hey John, it’s nice to meet you.

I’m Kim Russell — I lead our finance team at Women’s March. I don’t usually write emails like this, but today I have a really important favor to ask.

Every month, our organization sets a fundraising goal to make sure we have the funds we need to unleash the full power of this movement. As of 4:06pm EST we're $11,661 short from reaching our July fundraising goal and there’s only a couple of hours left for us to fill in the gap.

With less than 100 days until the most important election of our lifetime — we can’t risk falling short on a fundraising goal. That’s why I’m reaching out and asking for your help.

Will you chip in anything you can to help us reach our goal by midnight tonight? We’re relying on grassroots donors like you to help build the women-led movement we need to defeat Trump and advocate for the feminist future we believe in.

Chip in now »

It’s been a busy month for the team here at Women’s March.

• We signed up thousands of supporters to our 100 day pledge to spend at least one hour a week helping with voter contact efforts. Together, we’re mobilizing the grassroots movement we need to defeat Trump.
• We graduated our first class of over 300 Feminist Organizing School participants who sharpened their leadership skills, deepened their understanding of intersectionality, and learned to use tools to persuade voters and get-out-the-vote between now and the election.
• We kicked off our new live event series, Feminist Futures, to help more folks engage in conversations around the intersection of gender, race, class, and sexuality, and our shared future. These conversations are essential if we want to unlock the feminist future we envision.
• We hosted four Defund the Police Organizing Calls with over 2,500 participants. We trained people on how to research their city budgets, speak out at city council meetings, write letters to local papers, talk to their friends and family, and more. We will continue to call for justice for Breonna and organize and train our members to defund the police in their communities.
• And we started mapping out even more plans for the months ahead leading up to the election to make sure all of our voices are heard on November 3rd.

All of this work is owned and funded by all of us. That’s why our average donation is $14.98 and those donations make up 90% of our operating revenue.

So if we want to make sure the good work continues and we finish the job on November 3rd, it’s critical we hit our end-of-month fundraising goal tonight by midnight. If everyone reading this email right now chipped in just $5 we’d instantly reach our goal. Can you chip in $5 or whatever you can right now?

Thankful to be in this fight with you,

Kim Russell