{"id":137173,"date":"2026-01-25T03:58:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/137173\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T03:58:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:58:37","slug":"umc-launches-miracle-pennies-campaign-with-24-schools-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/137173\/","title":{"rendered":"UMC launches \u2018Miracle Pennies\u2019 campaign with 24 schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Nearly two dozen schools will start collecting pennies to raise money for UMC Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">UMC announced this year\u2019s \u201cMiracle Pennies\u201d campaign on Thursday. Students across the region will organize different events and fundraisers to collect money for the <a href=\"https:\/\/cmn.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/cmn.org\/\">Children\u2019s Miracle Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The work is entirely student-led, and all the money will stay local to help buy equipment and fund special services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re always focusing on areas of the hospital, we have a very large focus on the NICU where our babies are so help that department and buy the specialized equipment so we\u2019re really looking forward to buying equipment for the NICU and their transport team,\u201d said Sarah Simmons, director of Children\u2019s Miracle Network at UMC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The goal this year is $70,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Nearly two dozen schools will start collecting pennies to raise money for UMC Children\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-137173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}