{"id":117883,"date":"2019-05-15T07:22:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T12:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=117883"},"modified":"2019-05-15T07:22:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T12:22:22","slug":"state-farm-seeking-community-causes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/05\/15\/state-farm-seeking-community-causes\/","title":{"rendered":"State Farm seeking community &#8217;causes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neighbors across the country, and here in Van Wert County, will soon have an exciting opportunity to help change their communities for the better through State Farm Insurance Company\u2019s Neighborhood Assist\u00ae&nbsp;program, according to local agent Tisha Fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Tisha-Fast-State-Farm-photo-5-2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-103000\" width=\"329\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Tisha-Fast-State-Farm-photo-5-2018.jpg 350w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Tisha-Fast-State-Farm-photo-5-2018-344x600.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Van Wert State Farm agent Tisha Fast is promoting the company&#8217;s Good Neighbor program.<\/strong> <br><em>photo provided<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As a company, State Farm\u00ae\u00a0continues the effort through its Neighborhood of Good\u00ae program to inspire and empower people to turn caring into doing. As part of this platform, State Farm Neighborhood Assist\u00a0is back\u00a0for its eighth year in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cState Farm was founded on being that good neighbor, so giving back is in their nature,\u201d Fast noted. \u201cThe State Farm motto is \u2018Here to help life go right\u2019; in this case, they say \u2018here to help communities go right\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State Farm invites people to submit a community cause about which they\u2019re passionate and to rally behind that cause for a chance to win a $25,000 grant through State Farm Neighborhood Assist, Fast noted. Anyone 18 years of age and older in the U.S. can participate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s what people need to know:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The cause submission phase opens June 5.<\/li><li>Area residents can submit one cause in one of three categories: safety, community development, or education.<\/li><li>All people have to do is submit the cause; they don\u2019t have to \u201crun the program.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>State Farm Neighborhood Assist, a crowd-sourced philanthropic initiative, lets communities determine where grant funding is awarded. The application is short and simple, and State Farm encourages people to learn more by visiting&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.neighborhoodassist.com\/\">www.neighborhoodassist.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applications will be judged, based on answers to the following three questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>How much does the \u201ccause\u201d focus on an unmet need in a community?<\/li><li>Why does an applicant feel the $25,000 would address the unmet need?<\/li><li>How much of a lasting impact on the community would the proposal have?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>After the submission phase ends, the State Farm Review Committee will read and narrow down all the submissions to the top 200 finalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the top 200 causes are identified, they will appear on the website above\u00a0to be voted on by community members. The voting phase will last from August 14-August 23 and each person gets up to 10 votes per day, every day during those 10 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top 40 causes with the most votes will each receive a $25,000 grant from State Farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winners will be announced September 25 on the website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot of people that have great ideas to support our community, so I am hopeful that we can earn a $25,000 grant for this community,\u201d Fast said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information Neighbors across the country, and here in Van Wert County, will soon have an exciting opportunity to help change their communities for the better through State Farm Insurance Company\u2019s Neighborhood Assist\u00ae&nbsp;program, according to local agent Tisha Fast. As a company, State Farm\u00ae\u00a0continues the effort through its Neighborhood of Good\u00ae program to inspire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 12:09:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}