Over 30 community groups in and near Lyon County are part of Match Day 2025.
In fact, 35 groups are involved, as announced on KVOE as part of a live presentation at Flinthills Mall. Also, over 10 funds, foundations and private entities are contributing $175,000 in matching funds for the event Nov. 17. Community Foundation CEO Linda Kehres-Schmidt says the general fundraising goal is to build on past successes.
Applications were submitted to the Emporia Community Foundation’s Match Day Committee for review in March. Participating groups must have operating budgets under $175,000. They also have to have their headquarters in the seven counties served by the Community Foundation and they must have funds established with the Community Foundation.
Following last year’s efforts, over $3.8 million has been generated over the last 11 years for area nonprofits through Match Day. More information is available at emporiamatchday.com.
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2025 Match Day participants
*Arvonia Historic Preservation Society
*Baby Closet of Emporia
*Camp Alexander
*Chase County Care and Compassion
*Chase County Historical Society and Museum
*Chase County Old School Development District
*Choose How You Respond
*Emporia Area Habitat for Humanity
*Emporia First Friday Art Walk
*Emporia Municipal Band
*Emporia Spanish Speakers
*Energize Lebo
*FEAS dba Flint Hills Animal Advocates
*Food for Students
*Friends of the Emporia Public Library
*Friends of the Lyon County History Center
*First United Methodist Church School Supply Project
*Good Way Gardens
*Hispanics of Today and Tomorrow
*Lyon County Crime Stoppers
*Lyon County Honor Flight
*Main Street Mommas
*Matfield Green Works
*Newman Regional Health Volunteers
*NLC Youth Association
*Pink Gravel Fund
*Pioneer Bluffs
*Project Playscape
*Red Rocks – William Allen White Community Partnership
*Southwick House
*Street Cats Club
*Strong City Preservation Alliance
*Team Schnak Strong Fund
*Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7957
*Wade Barrett Memorial Fund
Matching fund donors
*Clint Bowyer 79 Fund
*ECF Fund for the Future
*Emporia Masonic Lodge No. 12
*Gilpin Family Fund
*WS and EC Jones Testamentary Trust, Bank of America NA Trustee
*Curtis McCreary Legacy Fund
*Patterson Family Foundation
*Merry and Charles Rayl
*Jane and Bernard Reeble Endowed Fund
*Trusler Foundation
*Waddell Family Charitable Fund
