matched giving

Sightsavers International, Inc has been awarded a grant of $880,000 from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to assist the government of Mali achieve the elimination of trachoma by 2015.

Localgiving.com, the online giving platform for small charities and local community groups, will this month run a £12,000 match giving campaign for rural charities in North Yorkshire.

Telephone fundraising agency Listen will match pound for pound the first £10,000 donated to help SOFII, the Showcase of Fundraising Innovation and Inspiration, redevelop its website.

The Localgiving.com Spring for a Year campaign has raised over £20,000 plus Gift Aid for local charities and community groups in Sussex in just three days.

First Direct, the division of HSBC Bank plc, has launched 'the first conversation appeal' to help fund ChildLine's Schools Service.

The UK government's Aid Match scheme will match fund public donations to ActionAid's 'Ready for Anything' campaign which starts next week.

Local charities in England have received a total of £1.2 million through Localgiving.com's Grow Your Tenner campaign which matched small donations.

The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2012 gets underway tomorrow at 10am, with the aim of doubling online donations to hundreds of charities to match pledges from the charities' major donors.

Localgiving.com, the online giving site which supports local charities and community groups, is offering to match up to £10 of donations made, up to £500,000.

The UK government's Department for International Development is to match fund UK public donations to Islamic Relief's 2012 Ramadan appeal, up to £5 million.