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Your gift supports my leadership work: training young leaders, advocating and lobbying for my community, and organizing neighbors to win real changes in Concord, New Hampshire.

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  • 2026Young Person of the Year, Stay Work Play New Hampshire
  • June 3, 2026Keach Park lights came on after years of organizing
  • 2023–2024FCNL Advocacy Corps in Washington, D.C.
Fiston Ndayishimiye smiling at the podium at the Stay Work Play Rising Stars Awards.
Stay Work Play Rising Stars Awards. Photo: Stay Work Play Rising Stars Awards

What your gift supports

Three kinds of work. One purpose.

Gifts help cover the real costs of this work, like travel, materials, venues and time, so I can say yes to more of it.

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Advocacy and leadership training

Trainings for young people and the adults who work beside them: leading, speaking, organizing, advocacy and taking care of each other. Most of them I build with the Young Adults Development Network.

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02

Lobbying and advocacy campaigns

Connecting local stories to the people who make policy. With the FCNL Advocacy Corps, I joined community leaders in Washington, D.C. to lobby for community gun violence prevention.

FCNL Advocacy Corps 2023–2024 ↗
03

Community organizing

Helping neighbors speak up and keep showing up. As Lead Organizer of Change for Concord, now Hope Project New Hampshire, with AFSC New Hampshire, I helped lead the long push for lights at Keach Park.

Advocacy and organizing →

The record so far

Work that is already paying off.

Floodlights over the Keach Park field at night, with a worn path across the grass.
Keach Park, Concord. Photo: Fiston Ndayishimiye
  1. Lights at Keach Park. The Concord City Council approved the lights in December 2025, and they came on June 3, 2026. The results
  2. 2026 Young Person of the Year. Stay Work Play New Hampshire named me its 2026 Young Person of the Year, an award sponsored by HEB Engineers, for my work with YDN and young people. Recognition
  3. Lobbying in Washington, D.C. With the FCNL Advocacy Corps 2023–2024, I lobbied for community gun violence prevention. Advocacy
  4. Young leaders in Washington. YDN's Washington, D.C. Leadership and Advocacy Conference took place in 2025, and again July 1 to 4, 2026. Trainings
  5. 40 Under Forty. I am a New Hampshire Union Leader 40 Under Forty honoree. Press

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  • Gifts made here go to me, Fiston Ndayishimiye, as personal support for the work on this page.
  • This is not a charity or a nonprofit, and gifts are not tax-deductible.
  • Gifts here are not donations to YDN, AFSC, FCNL, Hope Project New Hampshire or any other organization, and not to any political campaign.
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Questions

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Is my gift tax-deductible?

No. This is personal support for my work, not a gift to a charity or nonprofit, so it is not tax-deductible.

Is this a donation to the Young Adults Development Network?

No. YDN is its own organization. To support YDN directly, visit ydnofficial.org.

What will my gift pay for?

The real costs of my leadership work: trainings, advocacy and lobbying trips, organizing and the time it takes to do them well.

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Can I give another way?

Email me at fistondayishimiye@gmail.com and we will find a way that works for you.

Is this for a political campaign?

No. The donation pages from my 2025 City Council campaign stay in the campaign archive as part of the record.

Thank you. Together we go further.

Every gift, message and share tells young people and neighbors that their voices matter. I am grateful you are part of this work.

Fiston Ndayishimiye

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