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Donate to help guides.vote make an impact

guides.vote is raising money to produce our widely praised nonpartisan guides and to distribute them to as broad an audience as possible. As our 2024 Impact Report describes, in 2024 we produced 48 nonpartisan guides in English and Spanish, from the Presidency to US Senatorial, gubernatorial, state Supreme Court races, and US House races. We distributed over 7 million guides, placed guides as posters/banners at colleges enrolling over 2 million students, and sponsored influencers for Instagram & TikTok videos that reached over 3.6 million people.

In 2025, we’re focusing on important State Supreme Court races like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania that affect areas from abortion to labor laws to redistricting and voting rules, and statewide races in Virginia and New Jersey. We’re using them to continue to engage new partners and hone new approaches, laying the groundwork for the 2026 midterms.

Guides cost roughly $3,500 a piece to research, write, edit, review for nonpartisanship, translate, and publish. Your donations also support our outreach team which continues to expand the expansive network that distributes the guides, so we reach more and more people each cycle.

Here’s what your money will support. For more information, see our Impact Report.

  1. $2,000 will print 25,000 color copies of our guides for partner organizations to distribute in neighborhoods and on campuses, to primarily youth and BIPOC audiences.
  2. $3,500 will produce a nonpartisan guide to a key race, including research and writing, editing, attorney review for nonpartisanship, design, and Spanish translation.
  3. $5,000 will support a month of full-time outreach to major national and local organizations that could distribute the guides, and to key influencers who could promote them online.
  4. $10,000 will support the printing and distribution of 125,000 guides by our allies and partners.

Donations, which are tax deductible, should be made out to our 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor, Youth Service America (EIN 52-1500870) with a note saying: For guides.vote project.

guides.vote is 501(c)(3) fiscally sponsored by Youth Service America.

Mail a Check

Please make checks or Donor Advised Fund contributions* payable to:

Youth Service America
PO Box #65525
Washington, DC 20035-5525.

*Please note that it’s for the guides.vote project. If you give through a DAF or community fund, ask them to please include your name so we know who it’s from (we have a lot of people giving through places like Schwab and Fidelity).

Contact guides.vote

For additional information on supporting guides.vote, please contact Chief Operating Officer Lendsey Achudi.

Some of our donors:

Achieving America Foundation, Aspen Community Foundation, Ben & Jerry’s/Unilever, Bydale Foundation, Columbus Foundation, Copen Family Fund, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Denver Community Foundation, Des Moines Community Foundation, The Education Foundation of America, George Gund Foundation, Global Impact, Impact Investments, Jacques Littlefield Foundation, Kazan McClain Partners Foundation, Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund, Lush Cosmetics, Manuel D. & Rhoda Mayerson Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Richmond Community Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropies, Rodney White Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Seattle Foundation, Seedlings Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Streisand Foundation, Tides Foundation, Vermont Community Foundation, William Bullitt Foundation, Zegar Family Foundation, and Zevin Asset Management.