Match Day is still more than two months away, but the Emporia Community Foundation is continuing a lot of behind-the-scenes work to make the event successful, both overall and for the participating organizations.
Chief Executive Officer Linda Kehres-Schmidt says the summer has been busy for both the Community Foundation and the different agencies.
Match Day is Nov. 17, and 35 different groups from Lyon and surrounding counties are getting started with their public presentations — including social media videos — at this time.
Ahead of the official date, KVOE will have participant profiles on our Friday Talk of Emporia programs the next several weeks — starting this Friday at 11:06 am and going through mid-October.
Participating nonprofits must have an operating budget no bigger than $175,000. They must also have an office in a county served by the Emporia Community Foundation, as well as an account with the Community Foundation. Following last year’s record total of almost $770,000, 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.
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
