{"id":51805,"date":"2025-11-25T16:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/51805\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:42:07","slug":"nyc-mayor-elect-mamdani-raises-2m-for-transition-efforts-in-less-than-3-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/51805\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani raises $2M for transition efforts in less than 3 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani<\/a> has raised $2 million for his transition efforts in less than 20 days as he prepares to take office on Jan 1.<\/p>\n

The cash has flowed mostly from small donors \u2014 with 25,620 individual donors and an average contribution of $75.<\/p>\n

The fundraising reflects Mamdani\u2019s focus on grassroots support.<\/p>\n

In comparison to his over 25,000 donors, Mayor Adams\u2019 total transition cash came from 884 people, for a total of $1.94 million in 2021, and Former Mayor de Blasio received funds from 820 individuals in 2013, totaling $2.08 million. Those figures reflect Adams\u2019 and de Blasio\u2019s final hauls, while Mamdani still has more than a month to continue to raise funds.<\/p>\n

The funds are going towards paying his staff, setting up teams of experts and advocates to advise his incoming administration and filter through the 70,000 resumes<\/a> from Mamdani administration hopefuls.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people-powered Mamdani transition is building an administration that reflects the values and vision of New York City,\u201d Elana Leopold, executive director of the transition, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese contributions will help us recruit top talent that is ready to get to work on January 1st and begin delivering on the affordability agenda over 1 million New Yorkers voted for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani launched the fundraising effort the day after his Nov. 4 victory.<\/p>\n

\"Mayor-electMayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks at a press conference on Nov. 10. (Barry Williams \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Mamdani announced Monday his 400-person transition team<\/a>, who are now working across 17 committees to set up the administration. That team includes some former Adams administration officials, including Meera Joshi, a former deputy mayor; Laura Kavanagh, ex-Fire Department Commissioner; Hassan Naveed, Adams\u2019 former hate crimes chief who accused him of anti-Muslim bias after being fired and Arva Rice, who headed the Civilian Complaint Review Board until Adams asked her to step down.<\/p>\n

After Mamdani<\/a> asked for supporters to donate to the transition on social media last week, his team said they received $300,000 in 12 hours from 5,999 donors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has raised $2 million for his transition efforts in less than 20…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2659,85,9,24,55,54,692,12,56,87],"class_list":["post-51805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-election","tag-latest-headlines","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-politics","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}