{"id":70664,"date":"2025-12-26T00:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T00:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/70664\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T00:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T00:06:18","slug":"nonprofit-brightens-christmas-with-toys-food-and-blankets-for-west-philadelphia-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/70664\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit brightens Christmas with toys, food and blankets for West Philadelphia families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spirit of giving was on full display Thursday in West Philadelphia, where a local nonprofit helped make Christmas special for families in need.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers with the We Care Community and Literacy Center spent their Christmas spreading holiday cheer and passing out food, blankets and toys to families.<\/p>\n<p>For mother of three Jada Scott, the heart-felt gesture brought a much-needed smile. She said the act of kindness may have been the best gift of all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It means a lot with financial problems and everything going on in society, and people giving back is an honor to the community,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We really appreciate this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The giveaway was part of the non profit&#8217;s 27th annual Give Love on Christmas Day event.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Rochelle Singleton lives in this West Philadelphia community and brought the event there to help make the holiday special for her neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am so overjoyed,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It makes my heart smile to be able to give back and show love to those in need.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The spirit of giving was on full display Thursday in West Philadelphia, where a local nonprofit helped make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1897,69,71,70,877],"class_list":["post-70664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-holiday-season","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-west-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70664","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=70664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}