{"id":712,"date":"2009-11-20T00:29:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T04:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epcrossing.org\/?p=712"},"modified":"2009-11-30T00:29:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T04:29:41","slug":"giving-thanks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epcrossing.org\/?p=712","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Giving!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/t3.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:TKJ_lWFbVAAHbM:http:\/\/www.theholidayzone.com\/thanks\/48_3194.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"111\" width=\"111\" \/>Giving Thanks! Each year, at this time, the Board of EPX through the generosity of our membership and area businesses, works to complete our annual charitable giving campaign!\u00c2\u00a0 EPX is a 501(c)(3) and as such is expected to donate 5% of it&#8217;s income to charity. However, if you are a member, be proud knowing EPX donates almost 10% of it&#8217;s annual budget to charity! Much of our fund-raising goes to support this campaign.<\/p>\n<p>EPX donations started with a $200.00 gift to St. John&#8217;s Baptist Church at 13th &amp; Tasker Streets for their food pantry. The Philadelphia Access Center (PAC) at 11th &amp; Mifflin Streets supplies turkeys to over a dozen neighbors in our area and EPX provides the rest of their Thanksgiving dinner.\u00c2\u00a0 Everything from salad to cranberry sauce, stuffing to green beans, mashed potatoes to gravy&#8230;and more.\u00c2\u00a0 The hard work of gathering donations, shopping and delivering these items falls to our Treasurer Millie Ruffino, our Recording Secretary Jo Cardillo and Member at-Large Pat Pitt.\u00c2\u00a0 Let&#8217;s give these ladies a great big round of applause!!!<\/p>\n<p>The remainder of the Winter Holidays sees EPX donating to as many as six households, in our boundaries, a full array of Season&#8217;s Greetings; toys, home-goods, clothing and food. These items, in the form of gift cards, are given to needy families helping to make their holidays brighter! It&#8217;s not to late to join in on the giving. If you wish to make a tax-deductible donation to aid EPX in our charitable efforts feel free to bring new, unused goods or monetary donations to our December General Membership meeting on Monday 12\/7 or use the Paypal link on this web page.<\/p>\n<p>So whether you celebrate, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Yule, or something else, your friends and neighbors at EPX\u00c2\u00a0 wish you all the blessings of the Season and the hope for a peaceful and prosperous 2010, excelsior!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving Thanks! Each year, at this time, the Board of EPX through the generosity of our membership and area businesses, works to complete our annual charitable giving campaign!\u00c2\u00a0 EPX is a 501(c)(3) and as such is expected to donate 5% of it&#8217;s income to charity. However, if you are a member, be proud knowing EPX [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,18],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eventcalendar","category-membership"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epcrossing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epcrossing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epcrossing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epcrossing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epcrossing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epcrossing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epcrossing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epcrossing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epcrossing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epcrossing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_folder&post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}