Modest Needs Needs Help

A quick note before I get started on this post; The responses I received on my last post (She’ll Be Right Mate) were very humbling and meant a great deal. Your support and encouragement is very much appreciated. Thanks a lot guys. You rock! I’m keepin the faith so on with today’s shenanigans…

Not too long ago I posted about a charity called Modest Needs (you can check out the post here). Their slogan is “Small Change. A World of Difference” and they do great work linking individuals and families who are struggling with short term emergency expenses (eg phone, gas, electricity, rent, medical, etc) to those who are able to help them out. It’s a much needed concept, especially during this current economic climate.

If you visit their website you’ll see the recipients of their funds are incredibly grateful for the help and often wanting to pay it forward when they are able to. The funding goes a long way to helping people get back on their feet.

Here’s a clip profiling Modest Needs;

I recently received an email from them asking for help. Here are parts of the email; 

I’m writing today with big news from Modest Needs. In short, we’ve just had a major gift unexpectedly fall into our lap, and I need your help in order for us to realize the full potential of it.

Since February 2009, when we first learned that we’d be losing a substantial grant that we’ve been able to count on for the past couple of years, I’ve been plugging away, submitting proposal after proposal in an effort to replace the funding we unexpectedly lost. It has been a long and difficult road, I’ll tell you. But finally, last week, after months of work, we hit the jackpot.

A private foundation that loves the work we’re doing – one that has never supported us in this way before – has offered Modest Needs a new matching grant: up to $200,000.00 in new funding, and at a time when we’ve never needed the support quite as much as we do right now.

But there’s a catch: this foundation is intent on making the most of its money during this difficult economic time. So in order to claim any of this $200,000.00, we must first raise at least $100,000.00 from individual donors who support Modest Needs. And we have until 30 June 2009 to do it.

Once we’ve hit this $100,000.00 threshold, the private foundation I’ve mentioned above will match the full $100,000.00 we’ve raised from our individual donors. The foundation will then match 100% of anything else that we raise over and above that $100,000.00, up to the $200,000.00 maximum value of the match, so long as those funds are collected from our individual donors by midnight Pacific Time on 30 June 2009.

So right now, together, we have the chance of a lifetime – the opportunity to take advantage of a new matching grant that, if fully claimed, will result in Modest Needs (and our applicants) receiving a full $400,000.00 in new funding right away. And this is a goal that we can certainly reach together. In December 2008 alone, individual donors gave more than $250,000.00 to Modest Needs. Raising $100,000.00 from individual donors is no small task – but it is totally doable, provided we all work together, just as we always have in the past.

And that’s why I’m writing to you today.

In the interest of claiming this tremendous matching grant in full, I’m writing to ask if you’d please consider making a tax-deductible, one-time contribution. If you’re willing to help out, you can do so securely – in two minutes or less – just by visiting https://www.modestneeds.org/donation/online in the amount of your choice.

Right now, with such a very large amount of funding at stake, any help you’d be willing to offer really does have the power to make a world of difference, particularly to our applicants, and I’d like to thank you in advance for your kindness, your generosity, and your willingness to help us claim the full value of this extraordinary new matching grant.

A $5 or $10 donation seems a small price to pay towards helping them reach their goal. I’m sure $400,000 would make a world of difference to many families in need. We’ve made a donation. If you’re able, it would be great if you could help too.

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