Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Match Day raises a total of $3,490,552 in 24 hours | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Greater Milwaukee Foundation
March 20, 2015
Thanks to the generosity of thousands in southeastern Wisconsin through the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s fourth Match Day event, $3,490,552 was raised to support 20 area food and shelter agencies.
The special online giving event, which was coordinated by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, raised $2,235,902 from 5,484 individuals and $401,650 from Foundation donors. Those gifts were proportionately matched with money from a pool of $845,000 in matching funds from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, its donors and Board members as well as many community supporters, including Brewers Community Foundation, The Ceres Foundation, Meijer, United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County and the Faye McBeath Foundation. Eight nonprofits received an extra $1,000 thanks to the Brewers Community Foundation. The result was a total of nearly $3.5 million.
“On behalf of the entire Foundation, I want to thank everyone who helped make Match Day a great success for the fourth year,” said Ellen M. Gilligan, president and CEO of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. “It’s heartwarming to see our community come together like this, and the donations made for this event will have a lasting impact on the organizations and the citizens they serve.”
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Highlights from the 24-hour event:
-The first gift – $75 – was made 3 minutes after the event started at midnight
-A total of 9,280 donations were made through matchdaymke.org on March 19
-Hunger Task Force raised the most online of the participating agencies – 1,578 individual donors contributed a total of $422,727
-The Women’s Center, Hunger Task Force, Center for Veterans Issues, Guest House of Milwaukee, Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin, Advocates of Ozaukee, Community Advocates and Salvation Army each received an additional $1,000, through the Super Match promotion, made possible by Brewers Community Foundation and in partnership with WISN 12 News
For more information on Match Day, visit www.MatchDayMKE.org and follow the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Match Day on Facebook and Twitter.