The Western Kansas Community Foundation is grateful to the sponsors who generously provided the $50,000 matching dollars for our inaugural Match Day on November 28, 2017:

 

Gold Sponsors: Brookover Land Enterprises, Luther and Ardis Fry, Eric and Jena Fry, Lee and Brenda Reeve

Silver Sponsors: High Plains Orthodontics, The Commerce Bank, Western State Bank

Bronze Sponsors: American Implement, American State BAnk, Dr. William and Jean Clifford, Dairy Farmers of America, Friends of Match Day, Donald and Kathy Diehl, Kirk Olomon, Midwest Energy, Scheopner's Water Conditioning, The Garden City Company, The Kearny County Bank

 

The total amount raised was $111,170.86 by 280 donors. Combined with the $50,000 matching dollars and $2,050 in prize grants provided by WKCF the total amount distributed to these charities was $163,220.86.

 

The total donations to each organization made on WKCF's Match Day, along with the matching dollars (but minus the prize grants) included:

Emmaus House- $10,663.93

Finney County Community Health Coalition - $333.25

Finney County Historical Society - $4321.77

Finney County Humane Society - $17,389.61

Finney County Public Library - $3206.15

Finney County United Way - $21,760.06

Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo - $7,748

Garden City Arts - $2,830.03

Garden City Family YMCA - $50,059.28

High Plains  Public Radio - $6,498.33

Miles of Smiles - $10,987.02

Russell Child Development Center - $7,545.71

St. Catherine Hospital's Benincasa Hospitality House - $5,850.10

Community Betterment Fund - $947.73

Women of Purpose Fund - $11,029.89