{"id":38872,"date":"2011-11-16T11:29:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T15:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/?p=38872"},"modified":"2016-06-24T12:56:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T12:56:19","slug":"thanksgiving-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/thanksgiving-donation\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Minute Donation Provides Relief For Local Homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buffalocitymission.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Buffalo City Mission\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buffalocitymission.org\/images\/content\/pagebuilder\/12162.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a>With Thanksgiving less than a month away the Buffalo City Mission was still short of its holiday assistance goal.\u00a0 Desperately needing more generosity, VoIP Supply answered the call and donated 1,000 Thanksgiving meals for the community\u2019s homeless and homebound families.<\/p>\n<p>Aubrey Calhoun, director of public relations-development at Buffalo City Mission, explains that \u201cWith over 64.9% of homeless families experiencing homelessness for the first time, our services are needed more than ever due to families struggling to make ends meet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through their Turkey Express and Outreach Ministry programs, The Buffalo City Mission prepares and delivers thousands of dinners to shelter guests, homebound families and senior citizens in addition to distributing donated turkeys to hurting families and individuals within the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have experienced remarkable success and feel strongly about giving back to the community,\u201d said Garrett Smith, VoIP Supply\u2019s CMO. \u201cThriving local companies like VoIP Supply have an obligation to be socially responsible and civic aware. We\u2019re happy to help and know that fewer families will go hungry this holiday season. As a company that likes a good challenge, we challenge other Buffalo area companies to match or exceed our commitment this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Thanksgiving less than a month away the Buffalo City Mission was still short of its holiday assistance goal.\u00a0 Desperately needing more generosity, VoIP Supply answered the call and donated 1,000 Thanksgiving meals for the community\u2019s homeless and homebound families. Aubrey Calhoun, director of public relations-development at Buffalo City Mission, explains that \u201cWith over 64.9% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1026],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38872"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187873,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38872\/revisions\/187873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}