Year-End Fundraiser for Put People First! PA

Put People First! PA is a membership organization of everyday people from across Pennsylvania uniting to secure healthcare for ourselves and everyone else!   Our organization is 12 years old, and we are completely member-led and staff free. 

We’ve just completed a powerful year of organizing in the wake of the bi-partisan Medicaid purge that has resulted in more than 25 million Americans losing their healthcare since April 1, 2023 - including almost 900,000 here in Pennsylvania. Here are just 3 of our achievements and milestones from 2024:

A bill to restore the adult dental benefit in Medicaid passed the PA House. We are building power to make sure that working class people in our state can keep as many of their teeth as possible and get the dental care we all need and deserve.

We hosted 50 leaders from 10 states in the Nonviolent Medicaid Army network we founded for an organizing exchange in the Central-Appalachia region that included People’s History, cultural sharing and training in base building and organizing conversations.  Teams of 10-15 leaders knocked doors and had hundreds of politically independent organizing conversations about the interconnected crises of health, housing and the economy across Washington, Cambria, Blair and Lawrence counties.

We assisted people across Pennsylvania to appeal their Medicaid cut-offs. Our success rate in helping people keep their Medicaid is 93% compared to the state’s rate of less than 1%.

With Put People First! PA, a little goes a long way, because we're not worried about making payroll - we're staff free! Every dollar that we raise goes into building the clarity, competence, commitment and connection of an ever-growing group of leaders who are committed to fundamentally changing our society from the bottom up!

Our fiscal sponsor is the United Workers, another member of the national Nonviolent Medicaid Army based in Maryland.