The field is set for the 2022 Match Day, courtesy of the Emporia Community Foundation.
Twenty-eight groups in six area counties are involved this year, including one returning group and nine new groups.
Community Foundation Board of Directors chair Jeff Williams complimented the groups for stepping forward and the community for supporting the groups.
Group projects range from baby care and family stabilization to park enhancements, housing improvements, pet needs and historical preservation. Lyon County History Center Deputy Director Lisa Soller was glad the History Center was included, and she’s glad the Community Foundation offers Match Day.
There are several changes to the Match Day format this year, including a new donor — as Community Foundation Executive Director Becky Nurnberg announced.
Also this year, the Community Foundation made two requirement changes from past years: maximum operating budgets increased from $150,000 to $175,000 and participating groups need to establish funds with the Community Foundation.
Match Day is Nov. 14. The event has generated close to $2 million for groups in all seven area counties the past eight years, including a record of better than $455,000 last year.
For more information about Match Day, go online to www.emporiacf.org or call the Community Foundation at 620-342-9304. The broadcast is taking place at 11:06 am Tuesday as part of a special KVOE Talk of Emporia.
2022 Match Day participants
*Arvonia Historic Preservation Society
*Baby Closet of Emporia
*Bloom House Youth Services
*Camp Alexander
*Chase County Care & Compassion
*Chase County Historical Society and Museum
*Emporia Area Habitat for Humanity
*Emporia Eastside Community Group
*Emporia First Friday Art Walk
*Family Promise of the Flint Hills
*Food for Students
*Friends of the Emporia Public Library
*Latimer Lutheran Church Preservation Fund
*Lyon County Crime Stoppers
*Lyon County Historical Society
*Main Street Mommas
*Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards
*NLC Youth Association
*Olpe Downhome
*Pioneer Bluffs
*Project Playscape
*Red Rocks/William Allen White Community Partnership
*Street Cats Club
*Team Schnak Strong Fund
*Vernon H Buck VFW Post 7957
*Volland Foundation
*Wade Barrett Memorial Fund
