{"id":649883,"date":"2017-08-30T13:29:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T18:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=649883"},"modified":"2017-09-01T12:27:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T17:27:08","slug":"etcf-reminds-donors-to-beware-of-harvey-donation-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=649883","title":{"rendered":"ETCF Reminds Donors to Beware of Harvey Donation Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TYLER — The East Texas Communities Foundation is cautioning against scam artists and has compiled a list of resources to guide donors interested in helping those displaced by Hurricane Harvey. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153At this time, cash donations to trusted nonprofit agencies will provide the greatest assistance to those in the disaster areas,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said ETCF President Kyle Penney in a news release. Penney cites several online resources to verify if an organization is a trusted nonprofit, including Charity Navigator and Guidestar. You can also call ETCF for guidance at 903-533-0208. <\/p>\n

Suggested agencies serving the needs of flood victims include:\t<\/p>\n

Greater Houston Community Foundation
\nCommunities Foundation of Texas
\nThe American Red Cross, accepting donations on its website. You can also text HARVEY to 90999 to donate $10.
\nThe Salvation Army (see Salvation Army story on this news page)
\nTexas Baptist Men
\nUnited Methodist Committee on Relief
\nSave the Children
\nSamaritan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Purse <\/p>\n

If you wish to volunteer in response to Hurricane Harvey, please visit the Texas Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (TXVOAD) page for organizations that include volunteer engagement as a key component of their operations. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We encourage East Texans to be patient and do not self-deploy, as showing up to the communities that have been impacted by Hurricane Harvey will create an additional burden for first responders,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Penney in the news release. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER — The East Texas Communities Foundation is cautioning against scam artists and has compiled a list of resources to guide donors interested in helping those displaced by Hurricane Harvey. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153At this time, cash donations to trusted nonprofit agencies will provide the greatest assistance to those in the disaster areas,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said ETCF President Kyle Penney … Continue reading ETCF Reminds Donors to Beware of Harvey Donation Scams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":649888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 09:13:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649883","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649891,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649883\/revisions\/649891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/649888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}