Looking for a meaningful way to give back this holiday season? Matched Gifts of Hope let you multiply your impact – without spending more.

How does matched giving work?

Donation matching programs like Gifts of Hope offer an opportunity to maximize the value and impact of your gifts. When you choose a Gift of Hope marked with the matched symbol, your gift is multiplied – sometimes up to 12 times – by trusted partners like government agencies, foundations, and organizations. This means your gift goes further, helping even more children and families without any additional cost to you.

For example, if you give a $50 gift that’s matched 12x, our partners will contribute 12 more of those specific gifts. That means that your $50 gift becomes $650, making 12x as much impact possible. It’s a simple yet powerful way to maximize your generosity.

Who matches the donations?

Gifts of Hope are matched by trusted partners like the Government of Canada, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria and other institutional donors. Organizations, corporations or generous individual givers can all contribute to match commitments.

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Health Services for All
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$85 matched for $1105 value

Health. Can you imagine life without it? Families all over the world face huge barriers to accessing basic health services. This gift helps change that reality for children living in some of the most challenged and isolated regions of the world. It helps bring vaccines and medicine to communities that are vulnerable and marginalized. It helps equip remote clinics with critical supplies and more.

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Why choose a matched gift?

Matched giving is one of the most effective ways to support girls and communities around the world. Choosing a matched Gift of Hope means you're helping us reach more people, faster and with greater impact.

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Impact more lives:

More gifts means helping more people.

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Amplify your reach:

More funding means more programs and deeper support.

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No extra cost:

You give once, but the value of your contribution multiplies.


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$400 matched for $1600 value

No child should be caught in crossfire or crisis. This life-saving gift bundle makes the biggest impact for children who are affected by conflict or disasters. It helps reunite separated families and provide essentials like hygiene supplies and safe shelters where children can learn, play and have the protection and support they need.

$40 matched for $280 value

Play can be a lifeline for children living in disaster or conflict zones. These Play Kits include art supplies, games, educational toys and sports equipment for children ages 3 to 18. With support from facilitators who are trained in psychological first aid and play therapy, children can process trauma, build resilience and feel hopeful in spaces designed to help them heal.

$25 matched for $175 value

When crises and emergencies strike, families need help fast. Flexible financial support helps families meet their children’s most urgent needs. Give this gift to provide food vouchers, cash and e-transfers to women and girls, who face higher risks of dangers like hunger and violence.

$150 matched for $1350 value

When the closest clinic is days away, a simple infection can put a child’s life at risk, and childbirth can become life-threatening. This gift helps mobile health workers reach isolated communities with transportation, medicine and supplies to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases like HIV, malaria and TB. From remote islands to deep in the desert, it saves lives — especially for mothers and children.

$72 matched for $360 value

A bike is a great gift for any kid or teen. For girls living in remote areas, it can be life-changing, because they can ride to school, to the health clinic or to a job. This gift also gives health workers motorbikes to reach people in remote regions. Now that’s a powerful cycle!

$28 matched for $196 value

This gift provides girls in low-income countries with menstrual products like pads, and it supports community education programs to end the stigma around periods. It helps make sure that nothing prevents girls from attending school and having the same opportunities as boys.

$75

Help make a difference for communities in need across more than 50 countries around the world. This gift provides everything from urgent and essential health care for girls and women to food and aid for the children and people who need it most.

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$10 matched for $50 value

A book can spark young minds, introducing meaningful ideas, expanding the limits of possibility and opening a world of creative discovery. A book in the hands of a child can inspire a whole journey through learning and life.

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$50 matched for $350 value

This Gift of Hope helps women become midwives, nurses and community health volunteers. It helps them build valued skills, careers and independence while also boosting local health and driving change throughout communities.

Your gifts have a real impact

IMPACT CORNER

According to UNESCO, education reduced extreme poverty by 40% since 1980

Education is the key to equality. When girls have the chance to learn, they don’t just change their own lives, they can transform entire communities.

Education is the best investment we can make for a more prosperous world. And your Gifts of Hope, like Send a Girl to School, help make it possible.

33,918 girls were enrolled in school last year through our projects!

Viola, 17, selects one of the many books in her new school library in Uganda
Viola, 17, selects one of the many books in her new school library in Uganda.

DONOR QUOTE

I wanted to reach out to children and families who could benefit from kindness. Even a small gift has so much value, especially when matched. It’s a chance to make a real difference in a world where caring is essential.”

– Dianne, British Columbia
About Gifts of Hope

Gifts of Hope help create a more just, peaceful and equal world. They provide tangible goods and vital services to children and families while also tackling the greatest challenges girls face.

Last year, 83 cents of every dollar we spent went to programming for children and families worldwide. And Gifts of Hope helped make real change happen for 4.7 million people through 60 projects spanning three continents!

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