Imagine two young girls feeling outcast by society simply because they were born with cleft lips and cleft palates. They just want to eat and speak normally. To go to school. To smile.

Instead, they have trouble eating – and are greeted with taunting stares by strangers on the street.

Now imagine if you could transform BOTH girls’ lives with just ONE gift.

Today you can-through Operation Smile’s Matching Gift Challenge. When you give by June 15, your gift doubles in impact to help twice as many children get the life-changing surgeries they desperately need.

This amazing opportunity is possible because a generous friend has graciously offered Operation Smile $500,000 and asked us to challenge our donors to match it. That means your gift of $20 becomes $40. $100 becomes $200. Any amount you send goes twice as far to heal children who suffer from cleft lip or cleft palate.

You’ll help children like Vivian and Victoria, twin sisters born with cleft lips and cleft palates in Quixadá, Brazil.

Because the twins lived in poverty, their single mother was unable to pay for the surgery they needed. For years they lived with the taunts and stares of strangers. And every harsh glance they received broke their mother’s heart.

“I thought only my children had the deformity,” she says.

Then, one day she learned that Operation Smile was giving free surgeries in Fortaleza, Brazil, many miles away. Desperate, she took the girls there with the hopes of getting them healed.

Thanks to caring friends like you, their hopes were granted.

Operation Smile put the family up in a local shelter and arranged transportation for them so they could receive their free surgeries.

Please take advantage of this opportunity to double the impact of your donation and bring twice the number of smiles to children in need.

From now until midnight on December 31, every gift that is made to our year-end fundraising campaign will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $30,000. That means Greenpeace gets two dollars for every dollar you donate.

With your gift, next year we’ll mobilize millions around the world, pressure global leaders to sign our ‘Arctic Declaration,’ lead an expedition to the Arctic to plant a flag for all humanity and fight Shell in court. Please donate today and help save the Arctic and support all the work we do to protect the environment.

If you’ve been waiting for the right time to make a gift to Greenpeace, this matching gift opportunity is it. Donate now and help us reach our $150,000 goal.

Since our founding in 1948, Morris Animal Foundation has invested more than $70 million toward 2,000+ studies, and these studies have led to significant breakthroughs in diagnostics, treatments, preventions and cures for animals. Some of the breakthroughs funded through the Foundation have become gold standards in veterinary care.

In honor of Morris Animal Foundation’s 65th anniversary, an anonymous donor has offered to match gifts we receive between now and June 30, 2013—up to $65,000. Your gift can accomplish twice as much for animals everywhere.

Our mission:

Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco partners with working families and the community to build affordable ownership homes in San Francisco, Marin, and the Peninsula.

United Airlines has kindly offered a matching donation of $50,000

Any donation will be matched to American Red Cross, Feeding American or AmeriCares.

If you donate to this generous fund your contribution will be matched.

The total value of the matching donation is $25,000.

Donate here: http://www.crowdrise.com/sandyrelief#

WHAT WILL YOUR GIFT DO?

When you support our programs, you help women like Hope build businesses, feed families and strengthen communities. For example, our Commercial Integrated Farming Initiative (CIFI) trains thousands of women in sustainable farming practices so they can grow organic crops and sell them in the local market, as well as feed their families.

WHY SHOULD YOU GIVE TODAY?

Thanks to our Matching Gift, your donation will be doubled! So your gift of $50 becomes $100, put to work right away to help women like Hope, succeed like Victoria. So don’t delay! Give today!

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awards matching grants to Save the Children, providing us funds to help boys and girls with the essentials they need to survive and thrive under incredibly difficult conditions.  Under the terms of these grants, USAID will typically provide 75 percent, while we provide 25 percent of the USAID-funded project costs.  Our 25 percent comes from caring friends like you and it means that for each $1 of the match requirement, we will have up to $4 to spend on children in need.

Examples of how these funds might be used include:

- Helping us provide young survivors of natural disaster in  El Salvador with clean water, blankets, clothing and other essentials;

- Helping Save the Children support community-based early childhood development centers in Malawi; or

- Helping us provide newborn care and immunizations against deadly childhood diseases in Pakistan.

This is a great way to make your gift reach as many children as possible and affect real and lasting change. Form your fundraising team now and quadruple the impact of your efforts!

Your donation will have twice the impact, with a dollar-for-dollar match to the Canadian government’s Sahel Crisis Matching Fund.

Millions of people in Africa’s Sahel region are in need of food assistance after drought and crop failure.

Plan’s teams are on the ground right now – but they need your help.

Your generous donation will assist Plan in delivering food, water and vital supplies to children and families in some of the worst hit areas of Mali, Niger, Cameroon and Burkina Faso, as we work to respond quickly to this devastating crisis. Please donate today.