READING, Pa. – On Sunday, the Reading Chapter of the NAACP held its largest fundraiser of the year.<\/p>\n
The 38th Annual Freedom Fund Gala was held at Redner’s Event Center.<\/p>\n
The gala helps fund programs sponsored by the Reading branch to go towards education, housing, economic development, health, political action and veterans’ affairs.<\/p>\n
A number of community impact awards were also given out.<\/p>\n
“What we try to do is not only raise money, but highlight folks in the community that are doing great work,” said Wynton Butler, NAACP Reading Chapter President.<\/p>\n
Chapter President Wynton Butler tells us this year’s focus is the “fierce urgency of now” to get people excited about voting and getting involved in the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – On Sunday, the Reading Chapter of the NAACP held its largest fundraiser of the year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7292,7293,7291,7295,7297,7294,874,7296,128,130,129,7299,7298],"class_list":["post-8988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-african-american-upper-class","tag-liberalism-in-the-united-states","tag-naacp","tag-naacp-new-orleans-branch","tag-naacp-reading-chapter","tag-naacp-youth-council","tag-president","tag-reading-chapter-of-the-naacp","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-redner","tag-wynton-butler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988","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=8988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}