{"id":258254,"date":"2026-05-04T20:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/258254\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:55:10","slug":"pinellas-foundation-deploys-emergency-food-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/258254\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinellas foundation deploys emergency food funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 4, 2026 &#8211; Pinellas Community Foundation is directing $150,000 in emergency funding to local food banks and pantries as demand rises across the county, with nearly 97,000 residents relying on SNAP benefits. The grants will support organizations including the <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetersburgfreeclinic.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St. Petersburg Free Clinic<\/a> and other community partners, helping stabilize food access during economic strain and federal funding disruptions. Funds will be used to purchase food, expand hours and strengthen distribution across South, Mid and North Pinellas communities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 4, 2026 &#8211; Pinellas Community Foundation is directing $150,000 in emergency funding to local food banks and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-258254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258254","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=258254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}