Thanks to a generous outpouring of contributions, the Russell County Area Community Foundation (RCACF) raised $109,707 in November, setting a new match month record. With matching gifts from the Dane G. Hansen Foundation and Patterson Family Foundation, this will result in $279,707 to the community foundation for permanent endowment building and local grant-making.
“We live in a very generous area where so many friends and neighbors wish to support each other. Our goal was to raise $70,000 for the betterment of our communities and we are enormously grateful that so many local donors, business and government entities shared this vision to invest in Russell County. This helped us not only to meet our bold match month goal but exceed it,” said Angie Muller, RCACF Executive Director.
Monies raised will support the Fund for a Better Russell County Area, a permanent endowment that is the foundation’s community grant fund. The fund allows RCACF to make impactful grants to support the arts, education, park development, hunger relief, downtown revitalization, historical preservation, local music festivals, public safety, recycling and community clean-up, the hospital, libraries and more throughout Russell County area.
“We greatly appreciate the investment in Russell County by our partners at the Dane G. Hansen Foundation and Patterson Family Foundation who provided matching incentives,” said Muller.
Since Match Month began nearly a decade ago by the generosity of the Dane G. Hansen Foundation, more than one million dollars total has been raised and invested in RCACF to widen community grant-making.
RCACF is celebrating 23 years of service in the Russell County area. As an affiliate of the Greater Northwest Kansas Community Foundation, a tax-exempt 501c3 public charity, we join a collective of area community foundations aimed at increasing philanthropic giving in rural Kansas.
Our mission is to help donors leave a charitable legacy to improve our communities. Today, the foundation has more than 80 charitable funds created by donors for a variety of causes to make the Russell County area stronger. Funds come in all sizes. If you would like to create a charitable fund to ensure the things that matter most to you continue in the Russell County area, please contact RCACF Director Angie Muller at 785.445.3611 or visit rcacf.org.