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ELECTION 2016

Nonprofits Opposed to Trump’s Ideology
See a Surge in Donations
By NIRAJ CHOKSHI

NOV. 17, 2016

On Saturday, Steve Mendelsohn received an unexpected phone call.
A staff member with the HBO comedy show “Last Week Tonight With John
Oliver” had a small question about the Trevor Project, the nonprofit where Mr.
Mendelsohn works and which the show planned to feature in a comedic call to arms.
In the segment, which was broadcast the next day, Mr. Oliver urged viewers to
donate to causes he felt were being threatened by President-elect Donald J. Trump —
and to do so on behalf of friends or loved ones who voted for him. The list of groups
he encouraged his audience to support included the Trevor Project, which provides
help to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth.

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“It’s working,” Mr. Mendelsohn, the nonprofit’s deputy executive director, said
on Wednesday, adding that the on-air mention helped sustain NOWoutpouring of
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The Trevor Project has company. At least a dozen nonprofits that oppose Mr.
Trump’s policies or actions have reported similar, in some cases explosive, surges in
support since Nov. 8.
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which supports women’s
reproductive rights, received donations from nearly 200,000 people in the week
after the election, about 40 times more than in a typical week, a spokesman said on
Wednesday. Of those, more than 46,000 people donated in the name of Vice
President-elect Mike Pence, a vocal opponent of abortion who has fought to deny
federal funds to the group.
“We are so grateful to this community across the country, and we will never stop
fighting for them,” Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, said in a
statement.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which defends the rights of the individual, said
on Monday that it had received more than $7 million from about 120,000 donations
over the five days after the election. During the same period after the 2012 election,
the group collected less than $28,000 from 354 donations.
“This is the greatest outpouring of support for the A.C.L.U. in our nearly 100year history, greater than the days after 9/11,” Anthony D. Romero, the group’s
executive director, said in a statement on Monday. “All of this support will be put to
good use protecting the rights of all Americans.”
By the end of Tuesday, the group’s postelection tally had risen to nearly $9
million.
The Sierra Club, an environmental conservation organization, said on
Wednesday that it had gained 11,000 new monthly donors in the week since the
election, more than had signed up in the first 10 months of the year. That figure is
set to eclipse, by about tenfold, a previous monthly record.
Other groups have also reported surging support.

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The Anti-Defamation League, which combats anti-Semitism and other forms of
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election. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil liberties and
outreach group, gained more than 500 volunteers in the two days after the election.
Naral Pro-Choice America, which fights for abortion access, reported on Wednesday
that it had signed up 290 times as many volunteers since the election as in an
average week.
In a typical month, She Should Run, a group formed to encourage women to
seek office, might hear about a few dozen to a few hundred potential candidates, a
spokeswoman said. In the last few days, it heard about more than 2,500.
The Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund, National Immigration Law Center and International Refugee
Assistance Project have all reported an outpouring of support, too.
For the Trevor Project, the donations came as a welcome relief. Before the
election, the group was falling short, Mr. Mendelsohn said.
“We were behind where we thought we would be by $200,000,” he said. “We
assume that that’s because people were putting their money towards the campaigns
and not towards organizations like us.”
But in the five days between the election and the day Mr. Oliver’s segment was
shown, the group received $165,000, about six times what it expected in an average
week.
A version of this article appears in print on November 18, 2016, on Page A15 of the New York edition with
the headline: Nonprofits That Stand Against Trump’s Views See a Surge of Support.

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