Transform twice as many lives with a matched gift
Our community of Visionaries, our monthly donors, are the heartbeat of The Foundation. They give us the stability and consistency essential for effective long term program planning and resource allocation.
By becoming a Visionary today, you will be helping restore sight to twice as many people. That’s twice as many people who can get an education, see their loved ones, support their families. That’s twice as many lives transformed.
Fred would be outraged to know that still today, 9 out of 10 people who are blind or vision impaired don’t need to be. We need people like you, now more than ever, to carry on Fred’s sight restoring work.
Fred once said, “to help someone to see is a tremendous feeling” and I hope you’ll feel especially tremendous knowing that your monthly gifts will restore sight to twice as many people!
Your monthly support will ensure that we can deliver critical eye treatments, train dedicated eye health workers, and equip hospitals and facilities worldwide.
Restoring sight transforms lives and we need Visionaries like you to make it happen.
Match your monthly gift today
Why should you give monthly?
Monthly giving is the most effective way to donate – we count on your monthly donations to be able to plan ahead and provide support to people living with avoidable blindness in over 25 countries around the world.
Monthly donations have a multiplier effect
Your monthly donation enables us to train doctors who then train others, build clinics and work with governments to reach those who no one else can. Your money goes further with a monthly donation by restoring sight to more people.
It's more convenient for you, and us
You choose how much you give and the donation is automatically deducted from your nominated account on the 15th or 28th of every month. This means fewer administrative tasks for us too – so it keeps admin costs down. You are in complete control of your giving and can modify anytime.
Monthly donations help us plan long-term projects
Monthly donations are the most reliable source of income - they mean we can worry less about raising funds and focus more on delivering long-term projects. It means we can invest in innovation and technology that will continue to make eye care services more affordable and available to people living in the most remote parts of the world.
Double your impact today
Sign up for a MATCHED monthly giftFrequently asked questions
Matched giving is a time-bound campaign, in which donations are matched dollar-for-dollar to a matched giving fund. A matched giving fund can be one donor or a group of donors whose donations are pooled together, who have offered to match any donations given in a specified time period, to the total value of a specified amount.
Funding to match donations has been provided by a group of generous anonymous donors who have agreed for their donations to The Fred Hollows Foundation to be used to match new monthly donations for the first 12 months. Donations will be matched to the value of $350,000. Once this target is reached the campaign will end. All donations above $2 are tax deductible and will be directed to where the need is greatest.
Only new monthly donations will be matched for the first 12 months. Donations will be matched to the value of $350,000.
No, only monthly donations will be matched for this campaign. Donations will be matched for 12 months.
Once the target has been reached, promotion of the campaign will end and donations will no longer be matched.
Restoring sight changes lives and it can only happen thanks to the generosity of supporters like you.
When you become a monthly donor we will send you:
- A welcome pack in the mail within a few weeks. The welcome pack will contain all the necessary information about your monthly gift.
- Your nominated account or credit card will be debited each month on the 15th or 28th (whichever is closest to your sign up date).
- You will receive regular email updates, sharing stories from the field about patients whose sight you’ve helped restore; medical professionals and programs you have supported; events and activities The Foundation has taken part in; petitions and research relating to eye health.
- At the end of each financial year, we will send a tax receipt with all your donations (donations over $2 are tax-deductible), for you to use for your income tax claim.
Yes, you will receive an email receipt immediately after donating and if you make a monthly gift you will receive a yearly tax receipt in the post every year.
Your donation will be used to restore sight to those who are needlessly blind, and help end avoidable blindness in the countries where we work, which includes eye operations and treatments, training surgeons and eye health workers, and other sustainable eye health.
For every $1 donated, 75% goes directly towards eye health programs, 6% is necessary for admin costs, and 19% goes towards investment in fundraising efforts which allows us to help even more people in future years.
Yes, donations of $2 and over are tax deductible in Australia.
We accept Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. We also accept one-off donations by Paypal and monthly donations by direct debit.
Please view our Regular Giving Service Agreement here.