{"id":8,"date":"2014-03-26T02:18:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T02:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jingying.org\/?p=8"},"modified":"2014-03-26T13:42:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T13:42:58","slug":"community-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jingying.org\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Community Counts!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SPAN<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to the many local businesses and individuals who donated to and attended Jing Ying Institute\u2019s Annual Silent Auction for SPAN, Inc., we raised more than\u00a0$5,000 and over 500 pounds of non-perishables for SPAN\u2019s food pantry.<\/p>\n

SPAN stands for Serving People Across Neighborhoods, and they \u201cprovide food and financial assistance to qualified individuals and families to help them through a critical or emergency situation such as utility turn-offs, court-ordered evictions and prescription\/medical assistance.\u201d Their support reaches people in need\u00a0throughout Anne Arundel County. (www.spanhelps.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Our fundraising spanned several months so that we could raise as much money and food as possible. The silent auction was held in December, a “last-chance” silent auction ran until the end of January, and food donations were made until the end of February.<\/p>\n

One of Jing Ying Institute\u2019s younger kung fu students, Andrew Gleason, surprised the school with his own special donation. For his birthday party, Andrew asked his friends for canned goods instead of presents so he could \u201cdo his part to help out.\u201d\u00a0We were so impressed with his initiative and generosity,\u00a0we honored him with a special certificate of achievement.\"???????????????????????????????????????????????\"<\/a><\/p>\n

During this time, we had lots of special events at the school that included door prizes and giveaways. The winners\u00a0included JoAnne,\u00a0 the happy recipient of a giant Christmas stocking. The jam-packed stocking was donated by Idea Weaver Promotions, Inc<\/a>., one of the wonderful local businesses that donates each year to our fundraisers. JoAnne is a teacher and plans on giving the stocking to a deserving student. Talk about paying-it-forward!<\/p>\n

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Thanks to the many local businesses and individuals who donated to and attended Jing Ying Institute\u2019s Annual Silent Auction for SPAN, Inc., we raised more than\u00a0$5,000 and over 500 pounds of non-perishables for SPAN\u2019s food pantry. SPAN stands for Serving People Across Neighborhoods, and they \u201cprovide food and financial assistance to qualified individuals and families … Continue reading Community Counts!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jingying.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jingying.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jingying.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jingying.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jingying.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jingying.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jingying.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jingying.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jingying.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jingying.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}