Fund-a-thon 2024 is in full swing—and this time, we’re doing it LIVE!
It’s time for Fund-a-thon, an annual season (March-May) of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events where community members (like you!) come together to raise money for abortion funds.
You’ve been cooped up in your one bedroom apartment, dreaming of longer days, cherry blossoms, and patio happy hours. Now we’re asking you to take that energy and use it to fund abortion!
For the first time since the pandemic started, we have the resources and modern medicine to be able to care for each other, LIVE. To touch, to hug, to dance, to sing… all thanks to vaccinations, masking, testing, and COVID-safe community norms. Let’s celebrate our ability to rejuvenate each other in a tough period for our movement, our country, and our world by celebrating abortion LIVE.
How can you LIVE-a-thon? Glad you asked!
Make it irl!
Turn your book club, dinner party, or monthly happy hour into an abortion fundraiser!
MAKE IT ACTIVE!
Running the cherry blossom 10 miler? Use Instagram or Facebook to raise money from your people!
MAKE A TEAM!
Build a fundraising team and plan regular meet-ups at your favorite spot!
(DCAF tip: We love Doubles on Georgia Ave for a daytime catch up)
MAKE IT YOURS!
In a kickball league? Weekly poker night? Ask your team to designate DCAF as your charity for the season, or put DCAF QR codes up at your next tournament.
MAKE IT LIVE!
If you only do one thing with us this spring, make it attending our penultimate LIVE!-a-thon event: My Body, My Festival.
Buy tickets today for DC’s first abortion access music festival, hosted by DCAF and Burger Sounds! Celebrate good music, abortion access, and another successful Fund-a-thon season May 16-18.
Ready to get started?
Our Communications & Development team has lovingly created an everything-you-need TOOLKIT, just for you! Click below to access the kit, which lays out how you can best LIVE!-a-thon, with Canva-editable graphics, a guide to selling merch to benefit DCAF, talking points, and tips and tricks from our staff and organizers.
You can also check out our events toolkit, our evergreen 101 for event planners. Follow the steps, and we’ll be in touch ASAP!
