John,

I’m Terri, the Chief Finance Officer here at Fight for the Future.

I’m responsible for keeping track of the finances, making sure we make the most out of every donation, and ensuring we have the funds we need to stay focused on winning crucial campaigns for Internet freedom, net neutrality, online privacy, and basic rights.

I’m working on closing out the books for the year, and we have a problem.

We’re more than $79,000 short of what we need to raise to meet our budget. And the year ends in just 3 days. So I’m asking everyone on our list: can you rush a donation to Fight for the Future before the end of the year? A generous donor will double your gift!

DONATE

Now, I’m a numbers person, so let me be very clear with you. Fight for the Future is not in danger of shutting down. We intentionally keep our team small and nimble, and our overhead low, so we know how to be scrappy when we need to be.

But our grassroots fundraising numbers are down this year. As the fight for net neutrality has dragged on, people are turning their attention elsewhere. But as supporters like you are only too aware: the battle rages on. And there have never been more threats to our digital rights.

If we don’t close the fundraising gap before the end of the year, we’ll start 2020 in a budget hole.

And we can’t afford that. There’s too much at stake. Will you chip in today to help us close the gap? Your gift will be matched 100%!

Here’s why we can’t start the new year behind our fundraising goals. We’re deep in the trenches on a number of crucial fights right now, like:

Restoring net neutrality, state by state and in Congress
Stopping Internet censorship proposals
Banning facial recognition
Fighting Amazon’s for-profit surveillance
Supporting whistleblowers
And saving the .ORG domain

But the numbers don’t care that these campaigns are important and time sensitive. If we start the year behind we’ll have to cut somewhere, or dedicate our campaigners valuable time to fundraising.

We don’t want to let that happen. So we’re asking everyone who understands how important this work is to stretch, and give whatever you can before the end of the year. Your donation will be doubled if you give before midnight on December 31st.

Thanks so much for your support. For an organization of our size, it truly has a huge impact.

Terri at Fight for the Future

Fight for the Future works to protect your rights in the digital age.