Dare to Run, Inc.

Over the course of three years, Dare to Run plans to open training facilities in fourteen states across the southeast and Midwest.
These states include: Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota. Pennsylvania
South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia

Dare to Run is targeting these states because these are the 14 states with the lowest numbers of women serving in their state legislatures.* On average, women will comprise a total of 28.5% of state legislatures nationwide, a significant increase from the 2018 legislative session in which they comprised 25.8% nationwide.

​In addition, Dare to Run is aiming to reach a broad population of women with a wide variety of political ideologies, and believes this make up of states in the South and Southeast would serve these women advantageously. Many women in these states do not have access to training programs and resources that can be found in other states. Dare to Run embraces women with all political ideologies and looks forward to providing them the opportunity to gain critical, important skills needed to run a successful campaign for public office.

Our strategies including the following:

1. New Partnerships. Developing partnerships with other organizations working in the aforementioned states to build relationships and lay the groundwork for Dare to Run to set up training programs within those states. Dare to Run already has partnerships with organizations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Arkansas.Dare to Run will make a comprehensive list of organizations from across all 14 states, as well as political clubs to conduct outreach to. Once these partnerships and connections have been made, Dare to Run will aim to conduct strategy sessions with all of the organizations in each state. A strategy session would invite all organizations to sit down and discuss how Dare to Run can partner with them to implement our training program and bring it to their constituents as well.

2. Database of Potential Candidates. Recruiting interested participants in each of these states who would like to learn how to run for office. Dare to Run has a candidate database that it has been building since 2017 and will use the contacts made in this database to see if they have knowledge or concepts of any available spaces where training programs can be conducted.

3. Existing Partnerships: Dare to Run has partnerships with organizations including 21 in 21, the Girl Scouts of Greater New York, New Leaders Council, and Motivote. Dare to Run will leverage these amazing partnerships and use them for the purpose of recruiting new potential candidates for our training program. We will also partner with them for the possibility of using their space to collaborate and conduct a women's/girls leadership training program onsite and be able to offer two sets of programming to two different populations.

We have a board of 7 people, an advisory council of 14 people, and an email database of almost 500 people. We are growing our network daily and expanding our reach, and that's important for Dare to Run to be able to carry out three important goals: fundraising, candidate recruitment, and partnership development.

1. We have received our 501 c 3 status in March of 2019.
2. We have over 2,100 followers on facebook, 1,200 followers on instagram and 180 followers on Twitter.
3. We have over 100 potential donors in our network and over 450 people on our email list.


What's next is recruiting the first thirty people to complete the first cohort in 2019, acquiring workshop facilitators to lead the program, and fundraising $25,000 going into our third fiscal year.