ECF Announces 2022 Match Day Participants
The Emporia Community Foundation (ECF) is gearing up for the 9th Annual Emporia Area Match Day. This year’s event will be Monday, November 14, 2022 and will again be online with drive up donations or donors can visit the ECF office that day.
Match Day 2021 was record setting with over $455,703 awarded out to the 25 participating organizations including $60,000 in matching funds and additional local sponsorships. The impact of Match Day has had over the last eight years has been substantial with over $1.8 million donated to 39 participating area organizations in the greater Emporia area.
Breaking tradition, the ECF Match Day Committee selected 28 organizations for the 2022 event and after today’s announcement, these groups will be hard at work developing their fundraising plans. Anyone interested in being a matching donor or sponsor, please contact the ECF office.
The 28 charitable organizations participating in this year’s event include:
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Arvonia Historic Preservation Society |
Lyon County Crime Stoppers, Inc. |
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The Baby Closet of Emporia, Kansas |
Lyon County Historical Society |
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Bloom House Youth Services |
Main Street Mommas |
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Camp Alexander |
Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards, Inc. |
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Chase County Care & Compassion, Inc. |
NLC Youth Association |
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Chase County Historical Society & Museum |
Olpe Downhome |
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Emporia Area Habitat for Humanity |
Pioneer Bluffs |
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Emporia Celebrates the Flint Hills |
Project Playscape |
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Emporia Eastside Community Group |
Red Rocks: William Allen White Community Partnership, Inc. |
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Emporia First Friday Art Walk |
Street Cats Club |
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Family Promise of the Flint Hills |
Team Schnak Strong Fund |
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Food for Students |
Vernon H. Buck VFW Post 7957 |
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Friends of the Emporia Public Library |
Volland Foundation, Inc. |
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Latimer Lutheran Church Preservation Fund |
Wade Barrett Memorial Fund |
Thirty-three applications were accepted for the Match Day Committee’s consideration in March. This year’s Match Day Committee is chaired by ECF Board member, Ruth Wheeler. Organizations are required to have an operating budget below $175,000 and be located in one of the seven counties served by the ECF. The applicants are evaluated as to their mission, budget, projects/programs and the number of people served among other aspects.
The Match Day Committee is excited to announce that to date, there will be $55,000 in matching funds from: the Clint Bowyer 79 Fund; the Jane and Bernard Reeble Endowed Fund; the Trusler Foundation; the Preston Family Trust; Nick & Jan Laurent/Fred & Paula Neuer; and the newest matching donor(s) is the Emporia Community Foundation from the Fund for the Future. As in last year’s event, participating non-profits are encouraged to promote their organizations via social media and fundraising building excitement and dollars for Match Day.
For information about Match Day event activities call the Emporia Community Foundation at 620-342-9304, their website at www.emporiamatchday.com or the ECF Facebook page. As the date gets closer additional information will be provided.
