My Christmas challenge to you

To add meaning to the holiday season, every Christmas I help raise funds for Children's hospital toy drive through my friends and network at Beauty Within~Teen Esteem. This year, the needs are particularly great. And that means the rewards are too! I'd love to send you a special Christmas package as thanks for a $100 gift to power Beauty Within~Teen Esteem's work. This gift package was so popular over the years that I want to offer it again so you too can get on board — and even share this challenge with your loved ones.

Help Beauty Within~Teen Esteem with a gift of $100 or more, and I'll match it and send you my Devezin Cosmetics Christmas gift set:

  • "Devezin Cosmetics' Holiday Collection
  • Devezin Cosmetics Christmas coffee-table book
  • "Devezin Cosmetics" Christmas music CD featuring 10 of our favorite American carols

Or you're welcome to choose my Complete Professional Makeup Brush Collection

 
I believe at risk teens need a strong and compassionate advocate like Beauty Within~Teen Esteem — especially when the need in our world is so big. We are in the midst of the worst teen homelessness crisis since World War II. Here in the United States, one in five U.S. children still lives in a family that struggles to make ends meet.

But we have more reason for hope than ever before. Pope Francis has inspired millions of people of faith to answer God's call to end poverty. And just a few weeks ago at the U.N. General Assembly, the nations of the world committed themselves to ending extreme poverty in the next 15 years.

The need is so clear, the momentum is so good, and Beauty Within~Teen Esteem is so effective. That's why I'm inspired to offer you this personal challenge: I'll match all gifts up to a total of $50,000. I'm that excited about this opportunity to give disadvantage kids and teens a voice in our halls of government. Imagine, as an extended family of caring people, if we reach our goal, together we can empower Beauty Within~Teen Esteem's work with $100,000.


I see Beauty Within~Teen Esteem not as a charity, but as a service. If we care about poverty, in my estimate, there is no more effective way to put our dollars to work to fight it. Bwte transforms my concern about the
underprivileged into effective action by smartly — and doggedly — going into the halls of our government and speaking up (or "lobbying") for hindered people in our country and around the world.
So here's my challenge to you: Help Beauty Within~Teen Esteem with your gift of $100 or more. As a thank you, I'll match that gift and send you three gifts (worth $50) from my Devezin Cosmetics' Christmas collection:
DEVEZIN COSMETICS HOLIDAY COLLECTION 2015

I'll happily pay for the cost of these three gifts, as well as the shipping, so that Beauty Within~Teen Esteem can put 100 percent of your donation to work giving a voice to disadvantaged teens. Make your gift by Dec. 10 to receive this offer—and you'll get everything (along with our latest travel newsletter) in time for Christmas.

It's my hope that these gifts will add a wonderful new twist to your family celebrations for years to come (as they have for mine), while also enticing you to empower Beauty Within~Teen Esteem with your donation.

By the way, for every dollar Beauty Within~Teen Esteem raises, it leverages $100 in terms of assistance and funding that is vital to impoverished people in our country and abroad. (That's the great thing about advocacy — our government wants to do the right thing, when properly encouraged.) Assuming that ratio holds, if we hit our $100,000 target, it will mean that, together, we'll generate $1 million of life-giving, hope-instilling funding.


 Thanks and merry Christmas,


Eric Devezin