Double Your Impact for Life: Matching Gift Opportunity Ends April 20!
April 3, 2024 Dear Friends of Life, The South Carolina Citizens for Life staff and Board of Directors are thankful to be a part of a matching gift opportunity that will be used towards pro-life education and development in South Carolina. The matching gifts we receive will be used to match every dollar we raise through Midlands Gives on May 7. Early Giving is now underway which means you have the opportunity to match those early donations with your gift today. Sending bright, passionate individuals to the National Right to Life Academy to gain experience in Washington, D.C., is a life-changing educational opportunity. It is a superlative addition to the resumé of anyone seeking a career in government, education, law, medicine, journalism – in other words, any profession. Closer to home, your matching gifts for the Midlands Gives campaign allow South Carolina Citizens for Life to offer paid internships in our Columbia, S.C., office. Here we offer real-world experience working in the pro-life movement to learn how to be authentic and effective in the post-Roe world. Our interns earn a salary, a resumé-worthy experience, and they may earn college credits. Friends, we have a good start on our matching gifts thanks to two generous donors, but we have not yet reached our goal of $30,000 in matching gifts. Why do we need matching gifts? Because we know that like-minded people willing to support us financially are more likely to give when their contribution will be matched. Matching gifts show that generous philanthropists support our life-saving work, and it encourages new donors! These are historic times at South Carolina Citizens for Life. That is why we are asking you to donate to our $30,000 “Midlands Gives” Matching Gift Campaign. We have chosen to renew our colorful and baby-centered focus for our “Midlands Gives” campaign this year. Our marketing material will be education-focused on the development of the unborn, the intrinsic value of life and the sanctity of life from conception to natural death. And we need your support now until April 20th, to reach our Matching Gift goal. Any financial gift you can give – $500 or $25 or $50 – helps to equip the next pro-life generation. Your support is about more than money. It is about the future of the pro-life movement in our state, our speaking for the voiceless, and the protection of the innocent, unborn members of our human family. Your matching gift will help us to:Advocate. Subscribe to our text alerts by texting the word SCLife to 50457 (SCLife is case-sensitive, please use capital S,C, L and lowercase i, f, e.)Get the word out. Share our “Midlands Gives” posts and videos that will be featured on our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts, as well as the letters and emails that we send out.Educate. Train and prepare the next generation to carry on our life-saving work.Please donate to our $30,000 “Midlands Gives” Matching Gift Campaign. Now that we are free to restore legal protection to our unborn brothers and sisters, let’s put what God has blessed us with financially into action as we enter the new pro-life era. Sincerely for Life,Lisa Van RiperPresidentSouth Carolina Citizens for Life