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You can help us build progressive power in state legislatures! As a grassroots organization, your contributions are the power behind our work, allowing us to support Democratic candidates in key districts and volunteers throughout the nation. At the state level, every year is election year and we must keep pressing forward to combat the methodical erosion of our civil rights. The 2022 Midterms start now!

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What Your Contribution Will Support

When you become a donor to Sister District, you are powering our full-time, year-round work to:

  • Scale and strengthen our volunteer recruitment, training, and mobilization.
  • Provide robust campaign services to our endorsed candidates and their staff.
    • In 2020 our volunteers made more than 708,000 phone calls to voters. Check our 2020 Impact Report to learn more!
  • Spread the word about Sister District’s work via press and social media campaigns.
  • Develop technology infrastructure to support and empower our volunteer teams.

Gifts from community members like you made up more than 90% of our operating budget in 2020. We count on your support.

Group photo of nine NYC volunteers holding Sister District signs while standing on a porch and canvassing voters

Make a one-time donation

No amount of support is too small. Our model is built on the idea of many people doing their part and having a BIG IMPACT together.

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Checks can be sent to:

Sister District Project
340 South Lemon Avenue, #8737
Walnut, California 91789

For compliance purposes, we ask that the following information accompany your check: full name, mailing address, employer, and occupation.

Become a District Defender!

District Defenders make an automatic contribution to the Sister District Project each month on their credit card. When you sign up, you can choose to give any amount―$5, $20, or more―and you can stay enrolled in the program for as long as you like. There’s no easier way to budget for sustained political impact. 

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Sponsor a Project Directly!

Organizing Fellows

$ 700
for one quarter
  • Organizing Fellows are up-and-coming organizers who train with our Head of Organizing part-time for one quarter.
  • For $500, you can sponsor one Fellow for a quarter, allowing them to gain valuable hands on experience and provide crucial support to our teams!
Sponsor a fellow

Campus Booster

$ 10K
to expand to all our target states
  • Sister District launched a pilot program last year to engage college students through meaningful volunteer activities.
  • To expand to all of our targeted states this year, we need $10,000. Any amount no matter how small helps us reach this number!
Be a Campus Booster

Candidate Services Program

$ 2500
to support one candidate
  • This program leverages our staff’s combined 10+ years of campaign expertise to provide strategic support and practical resources.
  • For $2,500, we can deliver tools to 1 of our endorsed candidates including office hours; website and social media guidance; field, fundraising, communications plans; staffing support; campaign materials.
Fund candidate services

Your Donation Achieves So Much!

$13,000

Fund Sister District’s general overhead for one month.

$30,000

Fund all of the above + tactical guidance and organizing tools (e.g., autodialers, text messaging platforms) for three of our candidates and their campaign staff

$86,000

Fund all of the above + one organizer for a year, resulting in hands-on support for 20 volunteer teams, 100K field touches, and $200K raised directly to our candidates

$219,000

Fund all of the above + partial development of new technology to help us launch more teams and recruit more volunteers, resulting in a 30% increase in our organizing capacity

Group of more than 20 volunteers in California listen to a team leader give canvassing instructions

We are a lean nonprofit with a huge impact!

Sister District has low overhead; in fact, we are a remote organization that does not even have an office! We pride ourselves on being conscientious stewards of each and every donation that we receive. We make it count!

When you contribute to Sister District, your gift helps us pay our staff; provide tailored support to our candidates and volunteers; develop powerful organizing partnerships; and educate the public about the importance of state legislatures.

Thank you for being part of our movement! Learn more about the team!

The Sister District HQ team.

Since 2016, Sister District has transformed an abstract idea into a network of more than 50,000 supporters across the country! We have backed state legislative candidates in 119 races, raised almost $3.7 million straight to their campaigns, and made more than 3 million field touches to voters in 17 states! 

And we’re just getting started! Sister District is actively expanding upon our work to build and maintain progressive power through Democratic majorities in state legislatures. Learn more about our Candidate Selection Process or check out the latest insights from the team! 

Political Strategy
Images of the states Sister District has flipped since 2016: Virginia, Washington, Arizona, Colorado, and Maine
Since 2016, States Sister District has flipped: Virginia, Washington, Arizona, Colorado, and Maine

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Sister District is a grassroots organization that aims to build enduring progressive power in state legislatures across the country, to improve people’s lives and support Democrats by filling critical gaps at every point in the political life cycle.
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Checks can be sent to:

Sister District Project
340 South Lemon Avenue, #8737
Walnut, California 91789