READING, Pa. – The United Way of Berks County is thanking the local community for its overwhelming support after the organization reached a fundraising milestone.<\/p>\n
A celebration was held Thursday night at the Redner’s Event Center inside Reading’s FirstEnergy Stadium to announce the United Way’s 2025 campaign total.<\/p>\n
The organization exceeded its $10.75 million goal, raising a total of $11,057,115 for local programs that provide hope and opportunity while helping those in need in Berks County.<\/p>\n
United Way of Berks County offers over 80 programs that advance literacy, school readiness, education, food security, health and workforce development to help local children and families thrive.<\/p>\n
Officials say the funds raised are a testament to Berks County\u2019s commitment to helping others and strengthening the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – The United Way of Berks County is thanking the local community for its overwhelming support…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-41220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}