{"id":55360,"date":"2025-11-19T00:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/55360\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T00:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:12:16","slug":"food2kids-west-texas-mortgage-bankers-association-surpasses-fundraising-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/55360\/","title":{"rendered":"Food2Kids, West Texas Mortgage Bankers Association surpasses fundraising goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The South Plains Food2Kids organization received more than $18,000 to fight food insecurity across the region from a golf tournament fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The West Texas Mortgage Bankers Association hosted its first golf tournament fundraiser for the nonprofit in August. The association set a goal to raise $5,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The association surpassed that amount by thousands thanks to members, sponsors and the community. The WTMBA presented the check today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe communities came together on behalf of Food2 Kids because obviously it stirs everybody\u2019s heart to know that there\u2019s kids right here in our own community that don\u2019t have enough food on the weekends,\u201d Tom Couture with WTMBA said. \u201cYou start getting that word out and people will move.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jerry Ramirez, director of South Plains Food2Kids, said the donation \u201cmakes a big difference. Lubbock has a big heart and thank you for supporting what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The money will be used to help further Food2Kids\u2019 mission of feeding the community\u2019s youth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Food2Kids currently serves more than 2,200 children across several school districts in Lubbock County. It provides weekend food bags to ensure no child goes hungry when school meals are unavailable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The South Plains Food2Kids organization received more than $18,000 to fight food insecurity across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[30353,30357,30354,319,66,168,170,169,223,30351,375,30352,30356,30355],"class_list":["post-55360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-food-insecurity-donation","tag-food2kids","tag-golf-tournament-fundraiser","tag-kcbd","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-news","tag-south-plains-food-2-kids","tag-west-texas","tag-west-texas-mortgage-bankers-association","tag-wtmba","tag-youth-hunger-relief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55360","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=55360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}