John,

Today is Giving Tuesday, and you’re probably getting dozens of emails from organizations raising money this December season -- and it’s true, Sunrise is trying to recruit 500 new monthly new donors today alone.

But as Sunrise’s Grassroots Fundraising Fellow, I’m coming to you with a different request: to join our end-of-year fundraising campaign not just as a donor, but as a fundraiser yourself.

At Sunrise, we see fundraising as not so different from the rest of our organizing: it’s about telling a powerful story about something you care about, and asking others to join. Some of us give time to the movement, some of us give money, and some give both -- but regardless, we ask for what we need and we give what we can.

Can you help us go big in 2020 by asking your friends and family to support Sunrise?

To stand up to the fossil fuel billionaires, we rely on small monthly gifts from thousands of people like you. And across the country, hub leaders and volunteers are already pitching in to raise money for our national and local organizing efforts by asking their family, friends, neighbors, high school acquaintances, coworkers, gym buddies, and more to support our work.

But they can’t do it alone. Our hubs and organizing program have serious plans to mobilize millions of people to the polls and into the streets in 2020, but we won’t be able to put those plans into action without sustained support from thousands of regular people across the country.

We need hundreds of us to ask their communities to become monthly donors to Sunrise *today* to reach our 500 person goal. It’ll take just 5 minutes to text 5 friends or post on social media -- can you do so now? Check out our toolkit with template posts and images.

Don’t have time to fundraise? Pitch in personally instead and start your monthly donation.

I know that if we all pitch in what we can today, we’ll build the powerful network we need to win in 2020. We can do so much more together than any one of us can do alone.

For our future,

Matthew