Now that the donating has ended, Emporia Community Foundation CEO Becky Nurnberg is optimistic about final totals from Monday’s Match Day.
Passing last year’s record-setting Match Day will be impressive, considering fundraising efforts generated over $455,000.
Meanwhile, the Community Foundation’s annual Growing Up Giving effort was its most impactful yet, with $2,700 raised by 27 classrooms in eight schools. Each class gets $100 “Match Day Dollars” before researching the different organizations and deciding where their money goes. Nurnberg says there are a lot of lessons for the students involved.
Twenty-eight groups in Lyon and most surrounding counties were involved this year. This was the ninth Match Day — and the first where participating groups could collect assets as well as money.
The check presentation will be at Flinthills Mall on Nov. 29 starting at 11 am. KVOE will broadcast that event.
10:30 am Monday: Match Day underway to benefit nearly 30 community groups
Match Day is off and rolling for the Emporia Community Foundation and the 28 community groups involved.
On KVOE’s Newsmaker segment Monday, Community Foundation CEO Becky Nurnberg said the donations, regardless of their totals, are huge for the participating community groups.
Community groups this year are working in Lyon, Chase, Greenwood, Morris, Osage and Wabaunsee counties:
*Arvonia Historic Preservation Society
*Bloom House Youth Services
*C4 Food Pantry
*Camp Alexander
*Chase County Historical Society and Museum
*Emporia Area Habitat for Humanity
*Emporia Celebrates the Flint Hills
*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 Society
*Lyon County Crime Stoppers
*Lyon County History Center
*Main Street Mommas
*Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards
*North Lyon County Youth Association
*Olpe Downhome
*Pioneer Bluffs
*Project Playscape
*Red Rocks — William Allen White Community Partnership
*Street Cats Club
*Team Schnak Strong Fund
*The Baby Closet of Emporia
*Vernon H Buck VFW Post 7957
*Volland Foundation
*Wade Barrett Memorial Fund
Donations will also bolster the Emporia Community Foundation’s Fund for the Future.
Community donations will be augmented by a $70,000 matching pool, with donations provided by the following:
*Clint Bowyer 79 Fund
*Jane and Bernard Reeble Endowed Fund
*Preston Family Trust
*Trusler Foundation
*WS and EC Jones Testamentary Trust
*Nick and Jan Laurent; Fred and Paula Neuer
*Emporia Masonic Lodge No. 12
Residents can donate online at emporiamatchday.com through 11:59 pm Monday. They can also donate in person until 7 pm at the Community Foundation office, 527 Commercial in Emporia.
Over the past eight years, Match Day has generated $1.9 million for nearly 40 non-profits in Lyon and surrounding counties, including over $455,000 last year.
