John,
A day of incredible impact …
And we warmly invite you to be a part of it!
Today is #GivingTuesday, the biggest giving day of the year and the start of the Christmas season.
It’s an annual global giving movement — a day dedicated to generosity and doing good. This year, the opportunity to serve others and give back is more important than ever before!
Will you be part of building a more just and generous world?
This #GivingTuesday our goal is to raise $25,000 toward our New Hope Matching Challenge.
Committed friends have come together to offer this incredible gift as a challenge to you … to restore hope to more children and youth this Christmas.
Whatever you feel led to give today, your contribution will be matched dollar-for-dollar.
You will help us be there for the next Brianna … a hard-working student with a great head on her shoulders and dreams of becoming a nurse.
And yet the three men watching her saw her as a profit. To pursue her nursing dreams, she needed to make money for college tuition. She was vulnerable and innocent.
And they took advantage of her in the worst possible way.
Naively, she was lured away from family and friends … and into a strip club by a boy who tricked her into believing this was her new dream, her new path. And eventually into the path of traffickers and buyers.
Thankfully, Brianna’s family did not give up on her. They enlisted the help of a local police officer who understood sex trafficking, and who, in turn, enlisted Shared Hope’s help to extract her from the situation.
Today, Brianna still has nightmares that “they” have found her again … but she has become an outspoken activist, sharing her personal experience to save others.
She recently even allowed her story to be told on a billboard in Times Square, desperately hoping her warnings will save someone else.
THANK YOU for doing your part to help and restore girls like Brianna. There are so many other children just like her!
As you give generously today, your #GivingTuesday donation will be doubled in impact to help us continue to reach out and restore the lives of survivors.
You are so vital to this work. Your faithful giving makes an impact! God bless you for what you’ll do today.
Marissa McCormick
Director of Relationships
Model used to protect the girls we serve.