MATCH FOR LIFE™
Lighting Up Pro-Life Projects Everywhere™
2025: Grant Funding for Washington Residents
the mission
To financially fan the flames of innovation to build a culture that respects human life from conception to natural death.
Welcome to Match for Life™, a project of Human Life of Washington Education Foundation!
We’ve been lighting up pro-life projects everywhere, since 1985.
Do you need funding for your pro-life project?
We are introducing a funding source for you!
Open enrollment starts January 2, 2025, and ends March 31, 2025.
Three $500 grants are available for qualified applicants.
Need Ideas? Pick A Project --or create a customized version for your church or other community.
- Abortion Trauma Recovery - Especially with siblings and other ripple effect members previously involved in abortion
- Men, Fathers, and Parenting Education
- Partnership events to collaborate, which builds a culture of life.
- Pastoral Educational Projects
- Treats & BinkiesTM - A licensable product of HLW Education Foundation that showers local communities with the pro-life message, minus "pro-life" wording.
- Teens, Tablets, & Seniors - Develop programs that connect youth with elderly people. There is an untapped potential to blend technology with face-to-face contact, build relationships, enjoy the company of people of all walks of life, age groups, and ethnicities. This can easily be championed within a church, community senior center, or other organization. The Pro- life community needs leaders to spearhead these projects. Be a friend in the community. Nobody should feel discouraged, lonely, or alone because somebody cares, and that one person can build a supportive network which changes the culture.
GRANT FUNDING APPLICATION STEPS
* MUST be a resident of Washington State. (“Additional team members from other states neighboring states like Idaho or Oregon is okay”).
* Under 18 must have a mentor and/or adult supervision, pastor, or parent.
Need a mentor? Contact info@humanlifewa.org
#1
Read the ebook "Pro-Life Basics - Sharing the Truth with Love" by Michael Dumais
#3
Collect 3 Letters of Recommendation (pro-life group, pastor, or other relevant)
Coming December 15
#5
Fill Out Application
Form and Submit
to Us (#3 and #4 can be uploaded in the form)
Coming December 15
application timeline
- January 2, 2025 – Application Open Enrollment Begins
- March 31, 2025 – Application Closed Enrollment Ends
- April 15, 2025 – Applicants Notified
- April 30, 2025 – Funds Dispersed
SOME PREVIOUS AWARDS DISPENSED
- AWARDED: Scholarships to send individuals to local and national pro-life events.
- AWARDED: Funds for pro-life conference exhibit booths materials and entrance costs.
- AWARDED: Launch of a pro-life women’s group. Included video production: recording at an event launch, post-production editing, ribbons, signs, materials and supplies for the event.
- AWARDED: Food for a pro-life event.
- AWARDED: We provide travel expenses for organizations to bring in prominent speakers (from national speakers’ bureaus) for events in WA. Pro-life groups wanting to host a national speaker are often underfunded. HLW is a co-collaborator to sponsor portions of the costs.
- AWARDED: Printing costs for a pro-life student group for a mass distribution project.
history
Over 50 years ago, Washington was the first state in the country to legalize abortion by a vote of the people. The threat of abortion as the law of the land was at our doorstep.
To solve that problem, one member of the Board of Directors at Human Life of Washington, sprang into action and opened the first pregnancy center in the state. It was located in King County, and today it is known as CareNet.
WE BELIEVE THE TIME HAS COME FOR THE SAME KIND OF INSPIRATION TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF ASSISTED SUICIDE AND EUTHANASIA – AS A PROLIFE COMMUNITY OF LEADERS, THAT IS YOU!
It takes a culture of people to care.
Proponents of assisted suicide and euthanasia dehumanize people with disabilities, mental illness, and elderly. They view such people as disposable in our society. This permeates the culture, unless we do something about it. If we don’t, we’re next.
Cases of euthanasia and assisted suicide for eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa have been documented in multiple countries.
WELCOME TO MATCH FOR LIFE™
A welcome message from
Esther Ripplinger, MBA
President & CEO
WELCOME TO MATCH FOR LIFE™
A welcome message from
Esther Ripplinger, MBA
President & CEO
A blessed collaboration
“We are grateful to the national March for Life™ organization in Washington D.C. for approving our use of the name Match for Life, which bears a similarity to their brand name. This cooperative spirit within the pro-life community demonstrates our commitment to upholding the integrity of our shared cause, and we have worked together to find mutually respectful ways to honor each other’s mission.”
Esther Ripplinger, MBA
President & CEO
Human Life of Washington
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Food for Thought
“First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist” is part of the poem “First They Came” by Pastor Martin Niemöller. “Then they came for the trade unionists; And I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. “Then they came for the Jews; And I did not speak out because I was not a Jew”. “Then they came for me; And there was no one left to speak out for me”
We’d like to send a special thank you to the Spokane Walk for Life Northwest Event for inviting us to have a booth!
Match for Life™... Get Inspired.
fun fact
The national March for Life, in Washington, D.C, is the parent group to numerous state chapters around the country. Before starting the Washington state March for Life , which ran for forty years, Founder, Kathy McEntee, accepted the invitation to attend the event in D.C by the request of Mr. Ken VanDerhoef, President of Human Life of Washington, who encouraged her to take on that project. After her passing, her children continued her legacy.
Read about her life’s legacy HERE.
