In 2017, I founded a small nonprofit that trains progressive law students and lawyers to run for office, especially at the state and local level. I have run workshops every year since then, using the first $5000 I raised. Now, I need to do another round of fundraising so the work can continue. I’m a little nervous about doing this on #Mastodon. But I won’t go back to the bird site, so I’m going to see how it goes. 1/ https://www.leadersfromlaw.com/home
Wow, thanks to everybody who has so quickly boosted the effort to fundraise for #LeadersFromLaw (https://www.leadersfromlaw.com/home). I plan to regularly update our fundraising progress, both here on #Mastodon and on the #LeadersFromLaw website. I’m hoping this goes well enough so that I don’t have to use Bluesky. I really don’t want to be active on a privately owned platform. I promise not to overload the feed with donation asks! 3/
Just fyi, I can’t check donations received in real time. But if you want to let me know you’ve kicked in a few bucks - and believe me, every few dollars helps - feel free to say so in the comments or via DM. #LeadersFromLaw 4/
DC Council Member Brooke Pinto is an alum of #LeadersFromLaw. So is Ashwin Ramiswami currently running for Georgia State Senate. Jay McClinton is another alum, who ran for Cook County Commissioner and now is an advance lead for Biden for President. And here’s an essay another alum, Bobby Larsen, wrote about his experience at the Denver workshop. https://law.unl.edu/node/1801/ 5/