Friend: I’m writing to make sure you saw Katie’s email from Wednesday—and urge you to take timely action on this match.

We close our fiscal year in a matter of days, and we’re counting on this $10,000 matching gift challenge to launch every activity we have planned to defend waters in the U.S. and around the world.

Please—there is so much at stake. Double your impact while there is still time →

—Mary Beth Postman, Deputy Director

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To: [email protected]
From: Katie Cecil, Waterkeeper Alliance
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 7:30 p.m.
Subject: 2x your impact for ACTION on clean water (ltd. time)→

ALERT: Your gift is now matched for action on clean water →

Friend: I’m writing with a time-sensitive opportunity to protect waters under threat.

A generous donor is now offering to match every gift we receive until we close our fiscal year, next week. And what we raise now determines how ambitious we can be in the next 12 months. 

We must escalate our work to restore the Clean Water Act, and defend drinkable, fishable, swimmable waters for ALL people. And that relies on what you do, right now.

Please: act on this match immediately with a gift to protect clean water →

We’re counting on this match to bring everything we have to the movement for clean water. And Friend, the work ahead could hardly be more important.

• We’re now launching an unprecedented nationwide study to monitor the presence of PFAS, a dangerous “forever chemical,” in more than 130 American waterways.

• We filed a Supreme Court amicus brief last week in the case Sackett v. EPA, which threatens to further defang the Clean Water Act—and we will be doing everything in our power to restore this landmark law ahead of its 50th anniversary.

• Waterkeeper advocates are pressing Congress to finally break free of plastic and halt one of the most pernicious forms of pollution affecting waters globally. 

This is just the beginning of the work we plan to undertake in the next fiscal year.

As Director of Development, I know that what we raise determines the scope of our ambition. And that’s why I’m writing to you now, urging you to seize this match.

Please: with so much at stake for our waters, double your impact for the work and mission we share → 

Thank you, truly, for standing at our side.

— Katie


Katie Cecil
Director of Development