The Story of the YRNF
The managing director of Potomac Management, Neil Alpert works closely with the organization’s largest clients to provide them with strategic advisory services from his base in Washington DC. Over a decade before assuming this role, Neil Alpert served as the national finance director for Young Republican National Federation (YRNF) in the early 2000's, where he helped the group create a sustainable fundraising program. The YRNF was officially organized into a national collective in 1931, though it had existed for several years before. Its first official head was a young man named George H. Olmsted, whose early forays into politics so impressed the president of the time, Herbert Hoover, that he was invited to the White House and asked to head the YR division. That division became the YRNF in 1935, with Olmsted becoming the group’s first elected president. Since those early days, the YRNF has established itself as the nation’s leading organization for providing grassroots support to future Republican leaders. Membership is open to registered Republicans aged between 18 and 40 who wish to develop greater political knowledge and access insight into key issues affecting the United States.
