{"id":56902,"date":"2025-11-19T23:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/56902\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T23:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:58:06","slug":"arlington-charities-sees-record-demand-and-fresh-support-from-11-days-of-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/56902\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington Charities sees record demand and fresh support from 11 Days of Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanksgiving<\/a> is just a week away, and many North Texas families are struggling as the holidays approach. \u00a0<\/p>\n

To help out our community, our 11 Days of Giving<\/a> series is expanding. Together with Tom Thumb, Albertsons, we’re supporting nonprofits through 11 days of giving in both November and December. \u00a0<\/p>\n

For this first round, they’re donating $1,000 a day to food banks across North Texas. On the third day, we visited Arlington Charities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We are backlogged right now by 400 families,” said Vicky Martinez, the CEO of Arlington Charities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Things are busy at Arlington Charities. Volunteers pack the warehouse, building food packages for clients. \u00a0<\/p>\n

“Today we’ll serve about 288 families for the holiday distribution,” said Martinez.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Arlington Charities is the largest food distributor in the city. Martinez says this year the need is greater than ever. \u00a0<\/p>\n

“We have seen the need for hunger grow, just in the last two months, by three times a day,” said Martinez, “We are seeing the increase, the incline in people reaching out, brand-new clients never reached out to us before, at least one hundred new applications a day.”<\/p>\n

Which is why Arlington Charities was selected for a $1,000 donation from Tom Thumb Albertson as a part of CBS News Texas’ 11 Days of Giving. \u00a0<\/p>\n

“Feeding America estimates that we can serve about ten meals for $1. So that’s 10,000 meals,” said Martinez.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Helping some of the people who need it the most. \u00a0<\/p>\n

“These are single moms, these are grandfathers, these are students, they’re you’re neighbors, they need help,” said Martinez.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving is just a week away, and many North Texas families are struggling as the holidays approach. \u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[30322,30323,150,152,151,2097,430,15169],"class_list":["post-56902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-11-days-of-giving","tag-albertsons","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-nonprofit","tag-north-texas","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56902","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=56902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}