Image Description: an illustrated Pittsburgh skyline at night, in deep purple and blue with yellow lights. The night sky is deep purple with a lighter purple illustration of Pittsburgh’s three rivers. Above the skyline is handwritten light yellow text reading “PPT’s 2025 Year End Member Drive: Building new constellations of power”, decorated with yellow and light yellow stars.
Here at PPT, we’re building new constellations of power. We’ve faced bigger threats to our system, and grown our movement more, than ever before.
There’s never been a better time to join our fight. Will you join our movement by supporting us with a donation?
PPT’s Year End Member Drive is here!
Membership dues help PPT pay for direct actions, advocacy, and everything else we do to fight for affordable, reliable, dignified transit across our region. Our annual Year-End membership drive is our most important fundraiser of the year.
But this year, there’s a special twist:
Every contribution to our 2025 Year End Membership Drive will be matched up to $20,000 by a local foundation.
If you donate $5, it’ll magically become $10. $500 will become $1,000!
In a year of such fantastic growth, your donation has never been more important—and now it will go even further! Can you help us make our dreams a reality by donating to become a member?
PPT members build their skills to win campaigns. Don’t take our word for it—let our member, Kristen, tell you why you should join her!
My name is Kristen Greene, and I’m pretty new to PPT. I first got involved in January 2025, when I took a selfie in support of statewide transit funding. I never could’ve dreamed that sharing that selfie would lead to me starting, and winning, a campaign for better transit!
Everything changed this summer, when I found out that the Waterfront mall wanted to remove bus stops from its stores. I had just finished PPT’s transit organizing fellowship for Mon Valley residents, so I knew just how many people rely on transit to get their groceries there. I had to do something. I told PPT about the cuts, and they asked me to speak about them on the news.
Here’s the thing: I do not like public speaking. But this was important, so I stepped out of my comfort zone and did an on-camera interview with WPXI. After my interview aired, over 1,400 people signed a petition to stop the cuts–and 5 days later, the Waterfront announced that it would keep bus stops on the property!
It is such a good feeling knowing that I made a difference! PPT helped me step out of my comfort zone, and then we actually won our campaign. When I think about everything we’ve accomplished–whoa! I’m so proud of myself, and I’m so proud of us. PPT helped me make our transit system better for everyone. They showed me that when we fight together, we build our power–and we win! We can’t do it without you. Can you join me in this fight?
In Solidarity,
Kristen Greene