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Grow your donation through the Greater Manhattan Community Foundation Grow Green Match Day on Tuesday, April 22, 2025
7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
555 Poyntz Avenue, Colony Square Atrium

Grow Green Day of Giving Donors

All donors will be recognized on the Manhattan Catbackers online. In addition, donors will receive extra benefits depending on the level of their donation:

  • $50 donors will receive

    • A personalized thank you card.

  • $100 donors will receive

    • A personalized thank you card.

    • A household membership good through the end of 2025

  • $250 donors:

    • A personalized thank you card.

    • An extension or a new household membership through December 2025

    • 1 membership to gift to a friend or coworker

    • 1 Manhattan Catbackers branded Orca cup

  • $500 donors:

    • A personalized thank you card.

    • An extension or a new household membership through December 2025

    • 2 memberships to gift to a friend or coworker

    • 1 Manhattan Catbackers branded Orca cup

    • 1 Manhattan Catbackers Banquet & Auction ticket on January 30, 2026

Through the Greater Manhattan Community Foundation, we are working with four match partners for those who donate to the Grow Green Match Day on April 22, 2025. The match will be 50%. All matches are tax-deductible. Thank you to these partners!

Match up to $1,000

Match up to $1,000

Match up to $500

Four ways to give

  • In-person at Colony Square Atrium (555 Poyntz Avenue) on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, from 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM

  • In-person at the Meadowlark's Remote Donation Station at Prairie Star Restaurant (2121 Meadowlark Rd) on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 from 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

  • Online at GrowGreenManhattan.com on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, from 12:00 AM to 11:59 PM

  • By mailing a check:

    • Must be received on or before 4/22/2025 and must include a completed 2025 Grow Green Match Day Giving Form. The donation form will be available online after March 17, 2025.

    • Mail to:  GMCF, P.O. Box 1127, Manhattan, KS  66505

    • We have updated our verbiage from "postmarked" to "received" due to current mail delays, which are running approximately three weeks behind. To ensure donations are included in the matching fund amounts, they must be received by April 22, 2025. Donations received after this date will still be given to the designated nonprofits but will not be eligible for matching funds.

Donations will go directly to the non-profits; The 50% match will grow endowments

Why give?

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    Manhattan Catbackers has donated directly to all teams and groups involved in K-State Athletics.

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    Manhattan Catbackers also donate to the Ahearn Fund.

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    Manhattan Catbackers host free youth camps for Manhattan area youth with the support of sponsors.

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    Manhattan Catbacker members get more than 10 discounts at area businesses.

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    Manhattan Catbacker members get to participate in quarterly meetings. Meetings include special speakers, including K-State coaches, coaching staff and the administration team.

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    It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.