--- description: Following the election of Donald Trump, numerous organizations are receiving massive increases in donations title: ACLU and Planned Parenthood See Rise in Donations After Trump's Election image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0d6164f30fa648ae/6988ae75e20a871d0ea93388/donald-trump-election-donation-increase.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [2016 Election](/tag/2016-election/) ## 2016 Election Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # ACLU and Planned Parenthood See 'Unprecedented' Rise in Donations After Donald Trump's Election by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 14, 2016 11:40 PM CUT  Protestors demonstrate against President-elect Donald Trump on Nov. 13, 2016, in Philadelphia Protestors demonstrate against President-elect Donald Trump on Nov. 13, 2016, in PhiladelphiaMark Makela/Getty Images by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 14, 2016 11:40 PM CUT Following the [election of Donald Trump](http://time.com/4565025/future-historians-election-week/ "undefined"), numerous organizations, such as [Planned Parenthood](http://time.com/4531357/planned-parenthood-cecile-richards-100-year-anniversary/ "undefined") and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), have seen massive increases in donations, [according](http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/11/donald-trump-donations/507668 "undefined") to the _Atlantic_. The exponential growth in contributions is going to causes like women’s rights and antidiscrimination groups that feel under threat from the President-elect Planned Parenthood president [Cecile Richards](http://time.com/4531357/planned-parenthood-cecile-richards-100-year-anniversary/ "undefined") called the outpouring of support “unprecedented.” The organization has received nearly 80,000 donations, many of them in Vice President–elect Mike Pence’s name as a means of [speaking out ](http://motto.time.com/4556239/mike-pence-periods-laura-shanley/ "undefined")against a [controversial antiabortion law](http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a55037/indiana-abortion-bill-ban/ "undefined") he passed. [According](http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a8285040/women-are-donating-to-planned-parenthood-in-mike-pences-name/ "undefined") to _Cosmopolitan_, women are sending their receipts from the donations his office in Indianapolis. Similarly, the ACLU’s [donation page crashed](https://www.buzzfeed.com/dominicholden/aclu-donations-after-trump-win?utm%5Fterm=.nrwJmPoqDz#.qoDq0zXM1L "undefined") on Wednesday as people flooded to their site after the organization released a powerful [statement](https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-statement-donald-trumps-election "undefined") about Trump’s election. Contributions to the organization increased by 7,000% and they have collected “roughly 120,000 donations totaling more than $7.2 million,” according to the _Atlantic_. Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, said in a statement that they are seeing a “fiftyfold increase in donations.” The call for donations even spread to television. During the season finale of _Last Week Tonight With John Oliver_, Oliver [offered viewers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rSDUsMwakI&feature=youtu.be&t=19m20s "undefined") with numerous organizations they could give money to in order to help fight against Trump’s priorities, including the National Resources Defense Council and International Refugee Assistance Project. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4570796/aclu-planned-parenthood-donation-increase-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4570796/aclu-planned-parenthood-donation-increase-donald-trump/"},"headline":"ACLU and Planned Parenthood See 'Unprecedented' Rise in Donations After Donald Trump's Election","datePublished":"2016-11-14T23:40:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:49:18.601Z","description":"Planned Parenthood has received almost 80,000 donations since the election","url":"https://time.com/4570796/aclu-planned-parenthood-donation-increase-donald-trump/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","Money"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0d6164f30fa648ae/6988ae75e20a871d0ea93388/donald-trump-election-donation-increase.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0d6164f30fa648ae/6988ae75e20a871d0ea93388/donald-trump-election-donation-increase.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Anti-Trump Protestors Continue To Demonstrate Across The Country","caption":"Protestors demonstrate against President-elect Donald Trump November 13, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.","creditText":"Mark Makela/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4570796/aclu-planned-parenthood-donation-increase-donald-trump/","name":"ACLU and Planned Parenthood See 'Unprecedented' Rise in Donations After Donald Trump's Election"}}]}] ```