NDP second quarter fundraising numbers ‘disappointing,’ highlight ‘challenge’ ahead: Bélanger

Fundraising, organizing, and connecting with new voters will be ‘key’ for the NDP on the road to 2019, says NDP president Marit Stiles.

NDP leadership candidates Jagmeet Singh, Nikie Ashton, Charlie Angus, and Guy Caron, pictured. NDPers will decide on a new leader in October. In the second quarter of 2017, the NDP brought in a total of $825,985 in donations from 12,448 donors. That’s $82,906 less than it raised in the first quarter of the year, which totalled $908,892, and from 956 fewer donors.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and Sam Garcia

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

August 7, 2017

The federal NDP’s fundraising numbers have slid for the second quarter in a row, and former NDP national director Karl Bélanger says the results are “disappointing,” not just for the party itself but for those currently vying to lead it in the next election. “They are disappointing for the...

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