By Dewey Terrill
JC Post
UPDATE:
A total of $97,200.33 had been raised to support local organizations in the Geary County Community.
The chairman of the Greater Geary Community Foundation Calvin Pottberg called it a great day on Tuesday, Match Day. “We really had no idea what we imagined it could be. To me it’s a very large success.” Donations were received at the Municipal Auditorium and online.
There will be and additional $40,000 in matching funds for the donors. Pottberg said, “I’m sure it will all be matched up. We won’t know that for several days though.”
This was the first Match Day event in Junction City. Pottberg hopes to do another similar event in the future. “If we can get the match money, yes we’ll certainly do that again.” Central Charities Foundation donated $20,000 and the R2B4 Bramlage Family Foundation donated $20,000 in match money for the Match Day on Tuesday.
The C.L. Hoover Opera House received the highest donation total, $16,895, followed by the Dorothy Bramlage Public Library Foundation, $14,375 and Wheels of Hope, Inc., $9,550.
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As of 4:53 p.m. donors had made 408 gifts totaling a combined $94,500 to be spread between different organizations in the community,
The Dorothy Bramlage Public Library Foundation was the top receipient with $12,300. Donors committed $8,800 to the C.L. Hoover Opera House. You can donate to any of 26 different organizations.
A new activity in Junction City called the Greater Geary Community Match day is today ( Tuesday ) at the Junction City Municipal Building from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
You can make a donation to a local organization or charity and receive a 50% match from the Greater Geary Community Foundation chaired by Calvin Pottberg. “This is our first one. Some of the other communities have had two or three but you have to find some benefactors in the local community to put up the match money, and we’ve been successful doing that.”
A total of 26 local organizations are participating. Pottberg added each of the local organizations has been asked to set up a table, “so they can tell their story if you will, and then we give everyone a little menu sheet and they can go through and pick what organizations they might want to give to.”
You can also donate online until 11:59 p.m. tonight at http://www.gearymatchday.com/.
Geary Community Match Day participants include Aging Well, Inc., C.L. Hoover Opera House, Delivering Change, Inc., First Presbyterian Church, Geary Community Schools Foundation, Geary County Historical Society, Highland Cemetery Associatiion, Junction City Community Baseball Club/JC Brigade, Konza Prairie Community Health Center, Little Theater Foundatio, Inc., The I.C.A.R.E. Center, Wheels of Hope, Inc., Boy Scouts of America – Konza District Coronado Area Council, CASA of the 8th Judicial District, Dorothy Bramlage Public Library Foundation, Quality Play for All, Geary Community Healthcare Foundation, Geary County Fish & Game Association, Inc., Geary County Senior Citizens, Inc., Junction City Arts Council, Junction City Family YMCA Inc., Ladies Reading Club and United Way of Junction City/Geary County.