{"id":1077787,"date":"2021-12-01T06:52:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T12:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1077787"},"modified":"2021-12-02T11:11:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T17:11:49","slug":"united-way-of-smith-county-raised-over-200000-for-giving-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1077787","title":{"rendered":"United Way of Smith County raised over $200,000 for Giving Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1077788\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/12\/United-Way-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>TYLER &#8212; The United Way of Smith County hosted their second annual \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tyler Gives\u00e2\u20ac\u009d online fundraiser on Nov. 30, which fell on International Giving Tuesday. According to our news partner KETK, the event was aimed at meeting local needs for the organizations 26 non-profit partners as a gift for the end of the year. More than 550 individuals came together last year and raised over $168,000 online in a matter of hours. This year, they raised over $200,000. United Way and Tyler Gives sponsors, Express Employment Professionals and Specialized Recruiting Group, are providing a $75,000 match this year. Last year, they matched the first $50,000 given, which they reached only 13 minutes after the donation went live. This year, they reached $75,000 within 6 minutes of the donation portal opening.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fun to watch the numbers come in and everyone gets excited about that\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6but what does it really mean?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said John Berry, United Way of Smith County Development Director. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It means more funding for the programs that are helping people with critical needs, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what we should be celebrating. Not how many dollars, but how many people this is going to impact.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The United Way of Smith County hosted their second annual \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tyler Gives\u00e2\u20ac\u009d online fundraiser on Nov. 30, which fell on International Giving Tuesday. According to our news partner KETK, the event was aimed at meeting local needs for the organizations 26 non-profit partners as a gift for the end of the year. More &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1077787\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">United Way of Smith County raised over $200,000 for Giving Tuesday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1077790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/12\/United-Way-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"United Way of Smith County raised over $200,000 for Giving Tuesday","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 13:45:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/12\/United-Way-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"United Way of Smith County raised over $200,000 for Giving Tuesday","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1077787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077789,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077787\/revisions\/1077789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1077790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1077787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1077787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1077787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}