Dear Friends, As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, I’m reflecting upon the many blessings we’ve experienced over the past year at MATTER. We have so much to be thankful for – beginning with YOU, our faithful partners, donors and volunteers. Together, we impacted nearly three million lives this year with improved healthcare, nutrition, education, and […]
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Last Friday, MATTERnation came together for an extraordinary evening, Stand-Up for a Cause, united by one powerful word: “Yes.” Yes to celebrating the incredible impact we made in 2024, yes to the lives already transformed, and yes to the bold vision of changing even more lives in 2025. And what a resounding “yes” it was!
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Yesterday, MATTER held its first annual Companies That MATTER Awards Ceremony, recognizing the 71 organizations that partnered with us in 2024 to pack MATTERbox Snack Packs and Hope Kits, bringing help and support to people in their communities. Among the companies receiving recognition for their community impact in 2024 were: Aveda – Largest Gift in
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In recent weeks, our nation has faced the devastating impact of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, which have ravaged the southeastern United States. The effects of these storms extend far beyond the region, sending shockwaves that are being felt across the nation. In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, one of the nation’s largest producers of IV
As part of Austin High School’s homecoming week this year, students celebrated their school spirit by gathering on the school’s front lawn to pack beneficial food for their community. In what was MATTER’s largest packing event to date, more than 1,600 students in grades 9-12 assembled 24,000 MATTERbox snack packs totaling 9,000 pounds of food!
“We’re really not interested in the status quo of education. We are about revolutionizing education. It’s a big aspiration and something that needs to take place across the world and is taking place. We just want to be the ones to bring it to those places that are often forgotten.” – Jeremy Newhouse, Chief of
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It was the middle of the Zimbabwe wilderness, during the heat of the day, when a weary and desperate trio stumbled toward their destination. Two parents supported their adult son, trying to help him stand upright on a severely burned leg. Earlier that day, during an epileptic seizure, he had fallen into the family’s cook
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MATTER‘s very own Jacob Ross, VP of Business Development, had a front row seat at this year’s Olympics in Paris. Literally. As Performance Coach for the South Sudanese Men’s Basketball Team, Jacob had the inspiring privilege of journeying with this young team through an incredible season of defying the odds to make history in their
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When Robby Kimmel stepped off a plane onto Zimbabwe soil in 2023, he had no idea how his life was about to change. Having recently graduated from university with a degree in business and finance, he was thousands of miles from the centers of commerce where his peers were beginning their climb up the corporate
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For the last several years, we’ve been sharing the remarkable journey of the Chaya Tree Project in Zimbabwe. What began as a visionary idea by our dear friend Sandi Young to improve health in Zimbabwe through Chaya has blossomed into a thriving network of women’s farming cooperatives around the country. These resilient women are not
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