John,

This Giving Tuesday, we're doing something different. With your help and generosity, we can change and save more lives.

This year, we've teamed up with two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nick Kristof to match reader donations to three outstanding nonprofits — Vision to Learn, Helen Keller Intl, and the Mutual Aid Sudan Coalition — that he has chosen for his annual Holiday Impact Prize.

Each year, Kristof honors a few nonprofits in a "holiday giving guide," highlighting impactful but lesser known organizations that need resources. Over the past six years, the annual appeal has raised almost $60 million for nonprofits and created transformative change for over 2.1 million people around the world.

This year Nick Kristof has highlighted:

U.S.-based Vision to Learn provides eyeglasses to children who need them but can't afford them. This small change — helping kids see better so they can engage in school and read without strain — can profoundly affect their futures. As Kristof wrote in his annual column: "young people in the criminal justice system are twice as likely as others to have impaired vision; if they’d been able to get glasses in elementary school, I suspect, many of those lives might have gone in a better direction."

Helen Keller Intl helps treat and prevent neglected tropical diseases causing blindness and disability by providing free medicine and corrective surgeries in 20 countries around the world. With the constricting of distribution networks for drugs that prevent river blindness, combat parasitic infections, and more, donating to Helen Keller Int, says Kristof, "is a way each of us can fill a gap, preventing hideous diseases for only 75 cents per person reached."

The Mutual Aid Sudan Coalition supports Emergency Response Rooms across Sudan to feed and provide medical and other care to those on the frontlines of what Kristof calls "probably the world's worst humanitarian crisis." The volunteer-driven organization is meeting critical needs, and your donation can do a tremendous amount of good. "A $15 donation will pay to evacuate someone from a crisis area and provide a temporary shelter and five meals. Or $100 can provide emergency food baskets for 60 people in need," writes Kristof.

This is a powerful opportunity for all of us to change and save lives. The Bloomberg Philanthropies match means that your donation to any, or all, of these organizations will have double the impact.

Please visit https://kristofimpact.org to learn more about these amazing organizations and to donate.

Thank you,

Bloomberg Philanthropies