The Columbus Area Community Foundation (CACF) will be hosting Match Day 2024 on National Giving Tuesday, December 3. CACF will provide a prorated match for community contributions to participating charitable funds.
Your gift on Match Day will help support Cherokee County communities and the organizations that serve them! Keep reading to learn more!
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Match Day basics
CACF is hosting Match Day on National Giving Tuesday, the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving. This year, that means Match Day is on December 3. Match Day is an exciting fundraising opportunity that will help grow CACF’s participating funds. Here’s how it works:
Funds participating in Match Day
You’re here early! Stay tuned for a list of funds participating in Match Day 2024.
How we calculate match amounts
Each participating fund will receive 100% of the community donations made to it (less processing fees charged by Stripe for online donations). In addition, each fund will receive a prorated match out of CACF’s match pool that is proportionate to the fund’s share of all community donations on Match Day.
For example, if a fund receives 10% of community contributions on Match Day, it will also receive 10% of the match pool.
How you can give on Match Day
You can give on Match Day in person, online, or through the mail.
- In person. Bring your donation, along with a completed CACF Match Day 2024 donation form (coming soon) to Commerce Bank in Columbus, 137 W. Maple St. Deadline: December 3.
- Online. Starting on Monday, December 2, we’ll feature all the funds participating in Match Day on our donations page. Deadline: December 3.
- Through the mail. You can mail your check to CACF, PO Box 323, Columbus, KS 66725. Please include a completed CACF Match Day 2024 donation form (coming soon) so we know which funds you’d like your donation to benefit. So long as your gift is postmarked by Wednesday, December 4, it’ll count for Match Day! Deadline: December 4.
If you pay by check, please make your check payable to Columbus Area Community Foundation. If you aren’t using a CACF Match Day 2024 donation form (coming soon) with your check, please write the fund name(s) you want to donate to on the memo line.
Even more SEK Match Days!
We aren’t the only ones hosting Match Day on December 3! Our friends at the Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas, Fort Scott Area Community Foundation, and Girard Area Community Foundation are each running their own Match Day fundraisers the same day! You can find links to all four SEK Match Day pages at SEKMatchDay.org.