East Texans united to raise a record $3.65 million in less than 24 hours, reflecting a remarkable commitment to local nonprofits across 32 counties.<\/p>\n
TYLER, Texas \u2014 East Texans came together to set a new East Texas Giving Day record with $3.65 million donated within less than 24 hours to help local nonprofits.<\/p>\n
Organizers of the big donation effort said that the amount was made possible through the generosity of 6,429 donors. Early numbers show people gave $3.65 million to support causes throughout 32 East Texas counties.<\/p>\n
\u201cEast Texas residents responded with incredible generosity,\u201d said Kyle Penney, President of East Texas Communities Foundation, which hosts the event. \u201cOur nonprofit partners put in tremendous effort to highlight the needs in our communities, and donors answered that call in a powerful way. The results reflect the deep commitment across our region to support one another and improve our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since 2016, East Texas Giving Day has brought in $24.5 million for participating nonprofits serving East Texas.<\/p>\n
Donors were able to choose from 32 participating charities and could make donations starting at $10. Donations for select nonprofits were eligible to be matched thanks to the generosity of people and nonprofit business partners.<\/p>\n
Texas A&M \u2013 Texarkana was the overall event leader with $310,740 raised. Northeast Texas Community College Foundation, based in Titus County, came in second place with $291,679. The Breckenridge Village of Tyler placed third in donation, raising $257,877.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"East Texans united to raise a record $3.65 million in less than 24 hours, reflecting a remarkable commitment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-271324","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\/271324","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=271324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}