#GivingTuesday Event Matches Charitable Dollars

Posted on by Jesika Ellis

Giving Tuesday has finally arrived, kicking off the charitable season, when many focus on their holiday and end-of-year giving. Giving Tuesday has become a global movement that celebrates and supports giving and philanthropy.

TODAY ONLY on #GivingTuesday, December 3, the Knox County Community Foundation is hosting a special online event focused on building permanent endowment funds for its local participating charitable partners, listed below.  Best of all, your gift will go further on #Giving Tuesday: the Community Foundation is making $40,000 available to match any new gifts received to these funds on #GivingTuesday, multiplying the impact of donations.

To qualify for the matching dollars, only gifts to the funds below, received on December 3, will be eligible .
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… or at the office location, 20 N 3rd St, Suite 301 (third floor of the Old National Bank building) from 8:30 to 4 pm.

Local organizations that benefit from endowed funds held by the Foundation include:

  1. AgriInstitute
  2. American Cancer Society
  3. ATTIC
  4. Camp Arthur
  5. Christian Educational Foundation of Vincennes
  6. Council of College and Military Educators Scholarship Program
  7. First Christian Church in Vincennes
  8. First United Methodist Church in Vincennes
  9. Gibault Boys School
  10. Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation
  11. Good Samaritan Hospital Hospice
  12. Grouseland Foundation
  13. KCARC
  14. Knox County 4-H Association
  15. Knox County Community Foundation
  16. Knox County Humane Society
  17. Knox County Public Library
  18. Knox County Salvation Army
  19. Knox County Soil & Water Charitable Endeavors
  20. North Knox Scholarship Foundation
  21. Psi Iota Xi- Alpha Omicron Chapter
  22. Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Vincennes
  23. Sandborn Community Park
  24. Senior Citizens Center of the Vincennes YMCA
  25. South Knox Education Foundation
  26. St. James Episcopal Church in Vincennes
  27. St. Jude’s Research Hospital
  28. St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Vincennes
  29. Upper Indiana Presbyterian Church
  30. Vincennes Community Food Pantry
  31. Vincennes Education Foundation
  32. Vincennes Lincoln High School Academic Society
  33. Vincennes Lincoln High School Choir Boosters
  34. Vincennes Rotary Foundation
  35. Vincennes University
  36. Vincennes University Community Series
  37. Vincennes University Foundation
  38. YMCA of Vincennes