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2026 Year-End Matching Gift Challenge

Giving Tuesday, December 1

Sea Shepherd Philanthropy

Add your name to the million dollar match

Help us meet the million dollar match

Help bring fixed-wing drones to Scorpion Reef

Thank you for standing with Scorpion Reef

Support direct action at sea

On November 1 we open a $1,000,000 Matching Gift Challenge to put two fast boats on the water at Scorpion Reef. Gifts to the match pool double every dollar our supporters give through December 31.

Generous donors have set up a $1,000,000 Matching Gift Challenge. Every dollar given by December 31 is matched to put two fast boats on the water at Scorpion Reef.

Our crews fly quadcopters over the reef today. This Giving Tuesday we are raising support for fixed-wing drones, which stay up longer and cover far more of the reserve.

Your year-end gifts, doubled by the supporters who built our match pool, are helping put two fast boats on the water at Scorpion Reef.

Sea Shepherd receives no government funding. Our campaigns exist because people like you back direct action for the oceans.

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The match opens November 1

01Give

Double your gift before December 31

Make your gift

Every dollar you give is matched, up to $1,000,000.

The Matching Gift Challenge opens November 1. Gifts made today go straight to work at sea.

Your gift puts crews, ships and equipment where marine wildlife needs protection.

The match opens November 1

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Chad on patrol at Scorpion Reef
A letter from Chad Jacobs

Dear Friend,

I spend part of each year on the frontlines at sea. On land, my job is to talk with Sea Shepherd’s most generous supporters, because everything we accomplish out there is made possible by the people who fund it.

Earlier this year I spent time at Scorpion Reef, and I can tell you firsthand it is worth protecting. Once you see how much life these waters hold, you understand what is at stake.

I have spent time at Scorpion Reef, and I can tell you firsthand it is worth protecting. Once you see how much life these waters hold, you understand what is at stake.

Talking with supporters is the most rewarding part of my work. If we’ve spoken, I hope you know how much I valued it. If we haven’t yet, I would very much like to.

Thank you. Your year-end gifts, doubled by the supporters who built our $1,000,000 match pool, are helping put two fast boats on the water at Scorpion Reef.

I have seen what our crews face out there, and I know what those boats will mean to them.

As Sea Shepherd turns 50 this year, I will keep you close to the work at the reef. If you would like to hear where your gift is going, I would love to talk.

For the oceans,Chadwick JacobsDirector of Philanthropy

P.S. Before the challenge opens on November 1, I am asking a small group of supporters to build the match pool. I would be glad to add your name.

P.S. Every year-end gift is doubled by our $1,000,000 Matching Gift Challenge until December 31.

P.S. This Giving Tuesday, help us bring fixed-wing drones to the reef. Every gift is still matched through December 31.

Read about Chad’s time aboard the Sharkwater

Email chadwick@seashepherd.org · Call

01Opportunities

The match and naming rights

Naming rights

Naming rights are open all year. Put your name, or one you choose, on a ship, boat or drone. Terms are set case by case, so get in touch with Chad.

Matching Gift Challenge

Matching Gift Challenge

Join the match pool

Join the challenge

The match

$1,000,000

November 1 to December 31

Every gift doubled through December 31

A small group of supporters is building the pool now. Every dollar in it doubles a supporter’s gift from November 1 to December 31.

Join the match pool, or give now and have every dollar doubled.

Thank you to the supporters who built the match pool and to everyone whose gift it doubled.

In the pool:Built by: Lemman Family Foundation, McCall Family, Karen Outland, Pritam Singh & Ann Johnston, Peter Rysman and several anonymous supporters.

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Naming rights

Long-range patrol vessels

Our ships carry the crews, boats and drones offshore and are home base for every patrol.

The Bob Barker, the Sam Simon and the John Paul DeJoria were all named for supporters. The next ship can carry yours.

Naming rights

Fast interceptor boats

Interceptors like the Seahawk launch from our ships to reach poaching boats far from shore.

The match will put two new interceptors on the water.

Your gifts are putting two new interceptors on the water.

Put your name on the hull and it goes out on every launch.

Naming rights

Fixed-wing drones

Fixed-wing drones stay up far longer than quadcopters and give our crews long-range eyes over the whole reserve.

Be the name on one of the first to fly over Scorpion Reef.

Naming rights

Quadcopter drones

Our crews fly quadcopters over the reef every day to spot boats working where they should not be.

Your name goes up with the crew on every flight.

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02The threat

What our crews are up against

Poachers come to Scorpion Reef for queen conch, octopus, grouper, snapper and lobster. This is what our crews find.

A shark on a fishing boat our crews inspected
Illegal catch seized with Mexican authorities
Queen conch and dive gear taken from poachers
Detaining a fishing boat inside the reserve
6,300+
square miles of protected ocean
1,500+
pounds of illegal catch seized from one vessel this year
24/7
a permanent presence alongside Mexican authorities

We need more boats to enable our crew to defend more of the reef.

Chad Jacobs
03Your gift at work

What your gift puts on the water

Ships

Our 157-foot ship, the Sharkwater, is home base for patrols at Scorpion Reef.

Fast boats

The match will put two fast North River boats on the water to reach poachers far from shore.

Your gifts are putting two fast North River boats on the water to reach poachers far from shore.

Fast boats reach the small poaching boats that work the reef far from shore.

Drones

Quadcopters fly over the reef every day. Fixed-wing drones are next, to stay up longer and see far more of the reserve.

Giving Tuesday, December 1

Crews

Captains, drone pilots, biologists and deckhands who live aboard and patrol the reef day and night.

Double your gift before December 31

Put your support to work at sea

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Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in the USA (EIN 93-0792021), and donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. Questions about giving: chadwick@seashepherd.org. More ways to give are on our support page.

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