The Airlift Story

Founded in 2017, Airlift is an all-volunteer fundraising organization that believes in year-round grassroots organizing. We raise money from generous donors like you and give those funds directly to Airlift’s curated Partner Groups. The non-profit grassroots organizations we support are primarily located in battleground regions. With our funding, these organizations bring local people into political action. They develop leaders and build statewide political coalitions that give them a voice in creating the policies that govern their states. 

Airlift was founded on the idea that to make real political change and to ensure that democracy works for all of us, we must involve everyone in our communities. Our goal is for everyone to participate in creating policies that have a positive impact on our communities and to have a voice in creating lasting change. We are governed by three important principles:

Our Core Principles

Give people a reason to vote

When people are engaged by issues that matter, they vote.

Funding year-round local organizing

With continuous neighbor-to-neighbor outreach, new voters turn out.

Bottom up is a winning strategy

When people get involved at the grassroots level, democracy works for all of us.

A major focus of Airlift’s Partner Groups is registering non-voters. Thanks to grassroots organizing, the last several years have seen massive increases in voter turnout by young people and people of color. When these groups vote, they decide elections. Airlift-supported Partner Groups brought hundreds of thousands of new voters to the polls in the states that have the greatest impact on election results. This is our work. We hope you will join us!

 

Airlift Live from the Frontlines

 

April 30, 2024

DAN PFEIFFER

Back by popular demand, Dan Pfeiffer, former Deputy Communications Director for President Obama and current Pod Save America (PSA) co-host, will join us to talk about what makes Wisconsin a key tipping state in the 2024 election, and how winning the youth vote is key to victory there.

WINNING THE YOUTH VOTE

April 30, Tuesday, 5 pm PT/ 8 pm ET

JOIN US

We’ll also be joined by Leaders Igniting Transformation (LIT), Airlift’s Wisconsin partner group. LIT has done an amazing job engaging with Wisconsin’s youth, with robust high school, college, and post-education programs, particularly in Black and Brown communities.

DAN PFEIFFER — astute, humorous and wise.

 Support Our Work

Airlift is an easy, strategic way to invest in proven local grassroots groups working in key battleground areas to turn non-voters into voters. People vote when they are engaged in issues they care about, such as immigration rights, reproductive rights, healthcare, justice reform, and fair elections.

The year-round, neighbor-to-neighbor organizing work Airlift supports is the most effective way to engage and turn out new voters. Instead of paying for high-priced consultants and TV ads, all the money you donate to Airlift goes directly to local organizing. Our Partners are already hard at work organizing for local elections and preparing for the 2024 national elections.

Give to Airlift via ActBlue

This is the fastest way to donate. ActBlue takes just 4% off the top to process your credit card and to help support their work. This button lets you donate evenly across all the groups Airlift funds.

Send a Check

This is the most efficient way to donate. There is no limit on the amount. Your donation is completely private.  Less than 2% of your money goes to operating expenses. The rest goes directly to our Partners.

Make out your check to Airlift and mail to:

Airlift, PO Box 617, Corte Madera, CA 94976.

Many of our donors make sustaining monthly or quarterly donations from their checking accounts. These donations are especially important because our Partners work all year long. You can use the bill pay function on your checking account and make Airlift the recipient at the above address.

Airlift is an all-volunteer project of MVCAN, Mill Valley Community Action Network, a 501(c)(4) organization. Online donations go directly to the groups we support via ActBlue. Airlift takes recommendations from check donors into account but the IRS requires that we retain full discretion over the distribution of funds. Contributions to Airlift are not tax-deductible. Ask at info@airlift.fund about tax-deductible giving.

 

Watch Our Videos!

Airlift has our own YouTube channel. Please enjoy a few of our videos here. To see more videos and subscribe to our channel, click here.