{"id":76465,"date":"2016-05-20T07:46:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T12:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=76465"},"modified":"2016-05-20T07:46:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T12:46:56","slug":"united-way-donates-to-salvation-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/05\/20\/united-way-donates-to-salvation-army\/","title":{"rendered":"United Way donates to Salvation Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>United Way of Van Wert County made a $2,500 donation to the Salvation Army\u2019s capital campaign. The money was given from new initiative funds that provide one-time money for a new project or program.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_76466\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76466\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/United-Way-donation-to-Salvation-Army-5-2016.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76466\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/United-Way-donation-to-Salvation-Army-5-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. Josh Morales of the Salvation Army accepts a donation to the capital campaign for $2,500 from United Way Executive Director Vicki Smith. (photo submitted)\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Lt. Josh Morales of the Salvation Army accepts a donation to the capital campaign for $2,500 from United Way of Van Wert County Executive Director Vicki Smith<\/strong>. <em>(photo submitted)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Salvation Army, in its new location at 120 N. Cherry St. since November 2015, used funds raised during the first phase of the campaign to set up temporary offices, a food pantry, and chapel at the new location.<\/p>\n<p>During the campaign\u2019s second phase, the Salvation Army divisional headquarters in Cincinnati promised to match pledges received in April and May dollar for dollar up to $50,000 of new money. So far, the capital campaign has received $450,000 in money and pledges, $50,000 short of the $500,000 goal.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Salvation Army served 4,132 individuals with food, financial assistance, clothing, and school supplies. At Christmas time, 345 households received food baskets, 1,061 individuals received coats and other clothing items, and 597 children received toys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information United Way of Van Wert County made a $2,500 donation to the Salvation Army\u2019s capital campaign. The money was given from new initiative funds that provide one-time money for a new project or program. The Salvation Army, in its new location at 120 N. Cherry St. since November 2015, used funds raised [&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-76465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 04:55:33","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\/76465","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=76465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}