We just wrapped up our summer Membership Drive, where some of our members – “Arise Ambassadors” – helped grow our membership by inviting friends and neighbors to join Alabama Arise. People join Arise to build a more equitable Alabama. And our members are our power: You choose our legislative priorities and advocate with us at the State House.

We have nearly 2,000 members across the state in more than three-quarters of Alabama counties. And we have set goals to diversify our membership to be more reflective of Alabama’s demographics.

We’re making strong progress on those goals. Through our membership survey (which you can fill out at alarise.org/membership-survey), we have learned 49% of our members are people with low incomes, 9% are people under age 30 and 43% are people of color. This is significant progress over the past year.

If you’re excited about what we can do together, I want to invite you to join the efforts of our Arise Ambassadors and ask the people in your life to become members! To join Arise, they can give a gift of any amount at alarise.org/donate. Or if you know someone who cannot donate but cares about our issues, email senior development associate McKenzie Burton at mckenzie@alarise.org to ask about a free gift membership. Memberships last for a year.

Thank you for your partnership!