{"id":123939,"date":"2026-01-19T17:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/123939\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T17:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:41:08","slug":"feeding-tampa-bay-holds-volunteer-event-for-dr-mlk-jr-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/123939\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeding Tampa Bay holds volunteer event for Dr. MLK Jr. Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014\u00a0More than 1,000 volunteers converged across Feeding Tampa Bay sites Monday to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a day of service, packing and preparing meals for people facing food insecurity across the region.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>Up to 1,000 volunteers helped at <a href=\"http:\/\/feedingtampabay.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Feeding Tampa Bay<\/a> for\u00a0Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day<br \/>\n<br \/>Feeding Tampa Bay helped to serve more than 87 million meals last year<br \/>\n<br \/>The\u00a0Dr. MLK Jr. Day holiday is considered a day of service<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers worked in warehouses, supermarket-style pantries and bistros, repackaging meals, packing produce and assembling boxes for distribution across the organization\u2019s 10-county service area. Organizers said participation this year surpassed last year\u2019s event, which drew about 700 volunteers, and they expect the effort to continue growing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople reflect on what we should be doing and how we can help out \u2014 spread love,\u201d volunteer Mike McNulty said. He volunteers with Feeding Tampa Bay regularly, and says it\u2019s rewarding to see the immediate results of helping neighbors in need.<\/p>\n<p>Feeding Tampa Bay officials say the need for food assistance is growing: the organization provided some 87 million meals last year. Event leaders said service is a meaningful way to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s legacy of justice and community involvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the ways we think we can honor Dr. King\u2019s legacy best is by service,\u201d said Feeding Tampa Bay CEO Thomas Mantz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedingtampabay.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">View information about volunteering and learn more about Feeding Tampa Bay.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014\u00a0More than 1,000 volunteers converged across Feeding Tampa Bay sites Monday to honor Dr. Martin Luther&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[767,28,276,4029,115,135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-123939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-app-community","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-hillsborough-county","11":"tag-jeff-van-sant","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tampa","14":"tag-tampa-headlines","15":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}