{"id":9758,"date":"2015-11-18T12:08:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T20:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/alaska-usa-members-foundation-raise-more-than-76000-in-annual-food-drive\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T10:55:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T17:55:30","slug":"alaska-usa-members-foundation-raise-more-than-76000-in-annual-food-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/alaska-usa-members-foundation-raise-more-than-76000-in-annual-food-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska USA members, foundation raise more than $76,000 in annual food drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Alaska USA Federal Credit Union members contributed $76,300 to support their community food banks during the annual Cash for Cans food drive.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The credit union and the Alaska USA Foundation teamed up for the fundraiser, collecting cash donations at Alaska USA branches.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Washington branches collected $10,200, which will benefit Northwest Harvest in Seattle, Help House Food Bank in Oak Harbor, Hopelink in Redmond, and the Salvation Army of Bremerton.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;The Cash for Cans drive makes it easy for members to donate when they come into a branch,&#8221; said Janell Adams, senior vice president, branch administration. &#8220;We&#8217;re proud that members stepped up again this year and exceeded last year&#8217;s amount by 15 percent. With this year&#8217;s total funds, the food banks can provide more than 330,000 pounds of food to families in need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Learn more about the Alaska USA Foundation at <a title=\"alaskausafoundation.org\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alaskausafoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">alaskausafoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska USA Federal Credit Union members contributed $76,300 to support their community food banks during the annual Cash for Cans food drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":9759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-9758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9758"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}