Get ready for December 2026
Last December, 692 of you turned $110,000 in matching funds into $416,941 for projects in Auroville and beyond. This year the circle can be wider still. Here are three ways to be part of it from the start.
2025 DECEMBER MATCHING CAMPAIGN
FINAL RESULTS 2025:
Double the Love Matching Campaign
Thank you to the 67 people who contributed over $110,000 to the 2025 Matching Campaign Fund!
Your contributions make the Matching Campaign possible and create the foundation for so much abundance for our partners.
We are so grateful to you!
Below are Results for Community-Funded, Project-Directed Giving for our 4th Annual December Campaign.
Total raised in December
$416,941
Project donations plus matching funds — 20% more than December 2024.
$110K+
Matching Fund, from 67 contributors
692
donors in December
418
first-time donors
+20%
raised vs. December 2024
YOU CONNECTED
AND YOU SUPPORTED
WHAT YOU CARE ABOUT
Thank you.
During this December Double Your Love Campaign, your messages arrived from near and far, through conversations, emails, texts, WhatsApp notes, postcards, and handwritten messages.
Through all of it, your love poured in.
Your messages arrived from near and far — emails, texts, WhatsApp notes, postcards, handwritten cards.
So many gifts came from real relationships and lived experience. Many of you supported projects in Auroville; others reached beyond it, carried outward by friendships and shared values.
What connected them was not geography, but heart.
Some of you stepped forward first, building the matching pool as a gift to others. When the campaign opened, people around the world responded — and each gift met another, doubling and amplifying it.
Who gave
692
donors gave in December
+40%
overall donors since 2024
+26%
more new donors
40%
of our donors returned for 2025
“I am very glad and proud to play a small part.”
A DECEMBER DONOR
MOST SUPPORTED PROJECTS
Number of donations
Projects with the most donations
Congratulations to EcoFemme, Savitri Bhavan, Thamarai and Future School!
Engaging wide circles of supporters is key to growing a project. Alumni gave to the schools they once attended — or that their children did. One wrote: “Thank you! I was happy to support my school. Grateful for what you make possible!”
Why you gave
Through AVI USA, your support moves outward, reaching many different projects, each shaped by its own purpose and people, yet connected by shared values. Some of you supported projects you had directly benefited from. Some gave because someone you love had. Others had volunteered, studied, or spent meaningful time connected to this work long ago. And some of you simply felt a quiet pull when you encountered a story, a photograph, or a post at just the right moment.
“Thank you to organise this great campaign! I find it is the best way to give to Auroville Projects.”
“You guys are doing a good thing.”
P2P Challenge
Projects that earned the P2P bonus
Peer-to-peer fundraisers are led by a project’s own supporters, and they carry its work to people we could never reach alone. In December 2025, 38 supporters rallied behind 16 different projects, online and in person.
38
fundraisers
16
projects
~$50K
raised
$35K through online fundraising pages+ ~$15K collected in person and given directly
Projects that cleared the challenge earned an extra bonus:
$1,500+
raised via P2P
20+
supporters each
$1,000
bonus earned
Fundraisers per project
5 projects earned the P2P bonus
Each one had four or more fundraisers working for it.
BonusEarned the $1,000 bonus
Also successfully completed fundraisers
Number of online fundraising pages set up for each project. In-person drives are counted in the total.
IN YOUR OWN WORDS
Alumni stepped forward to support the schools you once attended, or the schools your children attended. Former students, now adults with families of your own, gave with gratitude for what had shaped you. Other gifts came from much deeper personal journeys.
“Thank you! I was happy to support my school. Grateful for what you make possible!”
“The repeated updates, combined with the postcard, kept reminding me about the campaign. Eventually I knew I needed to give.”
She and her husband had spent several months immersed in this world, an experience that shifted how they related to daily life, work, and wellbeing. For her, it offered a new understanding of yoga — not just as a practice, but as a way of living.
“This is a different use of the word yoga, literally doing the work. It’s about blending what we do with our physical and mental wellbeing instead of keeping them separate.”
Some donors carry a long lineage of involvement, reaching back to the early 1970s — teaching at SAICE, working at Equals One, sitting under the banyan tree as Auroville’s foundations were forming. Others had only brushed against Auroville briefly, yet felt it had always remained part of their lives. One supporter from Chennai, now in New York, gave after seeing a post online, drawn by the work and by his mother’s years as a high school teacher. He hopes to visit the school with her.
“And so the great adventure continues.”
“It has always been a part of my life. Mother and Sri Aurobindo are part of my life … it was just a spontaneous impulse.”
One donor has supported land purchase for over twenty-five years. When he was younger, encouraged by his father, he began giving even when he had very little. He credits that practice with his life opening in unexpected ways. Many of you also thanked us for the campaign itself, and for the way it invited you in.
“It is Mother’s Grace that she has enabled us to contribute.”
“Now I’m happy to do these small gifts through AVI USA … to take advantage of the doubling promise. Keep doing it and thank you for everything you do for Auroville from there.”
Some of you moved quietly and attentively, scrolling through the list and intentionally giving to projects that hadn’t yet received support. Others came through personal relationships — an old college friend of a project holder, or a high-school classmate moved enough to share the project with others. One donor gave simply because he noticed the matching goal hadn’t yet been met and wanted to help carry it across the line.
The campaign carried a distinctly global feeling, with messages from across Europe and beyond, and from sister AVI groups collaborating in shared support. Again and again, they arrived filled with humility and blessing:
“Thank you for showing me Ma’s project and for letting her choose me as her instrument for it.”
“It is an Honor and Blessing to me to help with the little I can.”
“Great Abundance towards Auroville in this end of year! Christmas Magic!”
“Merry Christmas from Berlin”
“Greetings from Auroville! Today sun raised again after long rainy days. Thank you for helping Auroville!”