Friend,

You know that global population growth exacerbates climate change, degrades wildlife habitats, and overburdens fresh water and food supplies.

Together, we make the links between population growth and our world’s most pressing problems.

Thanks to the support of our members and supporters—people like you!—Population Connection remains the only national grassroots organization dedicated to …

Raising awareness of population issues nationwide;
Educating K-12 students through our formal Population Education program; and
Advocating at the federal level for access to reproductive health care and family planning options for everyone, everywhere.

In recent years, we’ve built on these core programs by partnering with smaller, community-based organizations in the developing world. Each Global Partner helps to advance our mission, whether by removing barriers to girls’ education, conserving wildlife through a public health approach, or directly providing access to reproductive health services for local people.

We’re proud to say that we invested more than $500,000 in our Global Partners’ work last year—thanks to the generous support of people like YOU! With that support, our partners were able to:

Award 77 students financial aid to pay for school fees through Nashipai Maasai Community Projects, an organization based in Kenya. The parents or guardians of Nashipai’s student beneficiaries pledged not to subject their girls to female genital mutilation or child marriage.
Sponsor the training of 261 Village Health and Conservation Team members with Conservation Through Public Health, a Ugandan-based conservation organization (and our longest-running Global Partner!). Part of the training taught volunteers how to address side effects of various family planning methods, as well as how to manage and follow up on referrals to community health centers.
Provide family planning services to 1,000+ individuals through Women for Conservation, an organization based in Colombia. These services included 790 contraceptive implants, 57 tubal ligations, 46 vasectomies, 300 family planning education talks, and 48 reproductive health follow-up visits.
And more!

We are honored to support these efforts to help advance our mission of global population stabilization.

So today, I hope you’ll take advantage of your fellow Population Connection supporter’s Matching Gift Campaign: Your gift towards our Global Partners Program through December 31^st will be matched, dollar for dollar, up to $250,000!

We’re more than halfway to meeting this ambitious goal, and YOU can help put us over the top by lending your support with a gift of $15.00 today.

Thank you for your support this holiday season and throughout the year. We appreciate you!

Warm regards,