{"id":269522,"date":"2026-04-28T08:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/269522\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T08:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:29:09","slug":"how-tuesdays-east-texas-giving-day-helps-neighbors-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/269522\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tuesday\u2019s East Texas Giving Day helps neighbors in need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; 331 East Texas nonprofits are asking for support on East Texas Giving Day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.easttexasgivingday.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.easttexasgivingday.org\/\">The online giving marathon<\/a> is set for Tuesday, April 28. It\u2019s the biggest fundraiser of the year for many local nonprofits. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cLast couple of years we\u2019ve brought in over three million dollars through the event,\u201d said Kyle Penney, the president of the East Texas Communities Foundation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There\u2019s a wide variety of non-profits, from Animal Shelters to orchestras. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Some organizations, like <a href=\"https:\/\/tylerstreetteam.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/tylerstreetteam.org\/\">Tyler Street Team<\/a> are receiving matching donations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cEverybody from Tyler Street Team has helped a whole lot,\u201d said Kyle Brown. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Brown was recently experiencing homelessness. Volunteers with the Street team connected him to resources and found him housing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s a miracle, not that I didn\u2019t trust God that he could do that for anyone, but it\u2019s taken a lot of hard work and suffering for him as well,\u201d said Executive Director Shana Yates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To give for East Texas Giving Day, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.easttexasgivingday.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.easttexasgivingday.org\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; 331 East Texas nonprofits are asking for support on East Texas Giving Day. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-269522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269522","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=269522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}