{"id":143774,"date":"2021-07-14T20:08:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T01:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=143774"},"modified":"2021-07-14T21:14:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T02:14:51","slug":"united-way-surpasses-2021-fundraising-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/07\/14\/united-way-surpasses-2021-fundraising-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"United Way tops 2021 fundraising goal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United Way of Van Wert County recently revealed its final campaign total of $514,845, which topped the goal set in a year greatly affected by the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic made us change the way we normally do a regular campaign so I was not sure how it was all going to work out,\u201d said Kim Bruns, United Way of Van Wert County 2020-21 Campaign Chair. \u201cThe Van Wert Community always amazes me with their willingness to step up and make a difference and take care of our community needs. I want to thank this amazing community that I call home for helping us reach and surpass our goal during the year of the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recent \u201cFiesta Fun Friday\u201d reverse raffle event, which was held at the Wassenberg Art Center was a great success and was able to bring in a little over $14,000 to help surpass the goal of $500,000. Trevor Webster owned the night by winning the 50\/50 raffle and the $1,000 grand prize raffle, then donating almost all of it back to the United Way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe ability to reach the goal set, has been a great accomplishment given the year that was full of changes,\u201d said United Way Executive Director Vicki Smith. \u201cWe had to look at everything from a different point of view. Regardless of the pandemic, we were able to have record setting fundraising at almost all of our events this year.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It has been a privilege to work with such an amazing board, caring community and great individuals that give unconditionally,” Smith added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The money raised will benefit 34 United Way agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on giving to the United Way or to volunteer, please contact the United Way of Van Wert County at 419.238.6689 or email at director@uwvwco.org<\/a>. People can also at the United Way office, 136 E. Main Street, Van Wert. Check the United Way out on Facebook and watch for its new campaign video for 2021-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent\/submitted information The United Way of Van Wert County recently revealed its final campaign total of $514,845, which topped the goal set in a year greatly affected by the coronavirus. \u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic made us change the way we normally do a regular campaign so I was not sure how it was all going […]<\/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-143774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 23:39:41","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\/143774","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=143774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}