{"id":339312,"date":"2026-07-14T06:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/339312\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T06:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:04:09","slug":"desc-defenders-unite-resident-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/339312\/","title":{"rendered":"DESC Defenders Unite \u2013 Resident News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nearly $400,000 was raised at a record-breaking evening for DESC Defenders, the Downtown Ecumenical Services Council\u2019s signature fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2026 event, DESC Defenders: Stand Together, was held at WJCT on Thursday, June 11. It offered guests a memorable evening featuring a Fund-A-Need \u201cauction\u201d along with its inspiring program and interactive activities. Melissa and Dick Lewis were the 2026 honorary chairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First launched in 2019, the evening provides attendees with a deeper understanding of the challenges individuals experiencing chronic poverty face on a regular basis, offering insight into these lives through interactive displays and presentations. Since its inception seven years ago, the event has raised more than $1.5 million in support of DESC\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly $400,000 was raised at a record-breaking evening for DESC Defenders, the Downtown Ecumenical Services Council\u2019s signature fundraiser.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-339312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339312","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=339312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}