Match Day is almost here.
This year’s fundraiser involves 28 community groups 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 from 12 am-11:59 pm Monday. They can also donate in person from 9 am to 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.
Community Foundation administrators will have a preview on KVOE’s Newsmaker segment at 7:20 am Monday.
