{"id":828,"date":"2015-07-30T01:46:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T01:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=828"},"modified":"2015-07-30T01:47:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T01:47:20","slug":"nonprofit-helps-with-school-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit helps with school supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-830\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2021-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2021-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2021-1024x752.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2021-624x458.jpg 624w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2021.jpg 1692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two decades ago, Susan Ungerer was volunteering at a Fairfax County nonprofit group that helps financially strapped families when she noticed a pattern: Parents tended to fall behind with their finances in August and September, just when they had to buy school supplies for their children.<\/p>\n<p>That realization, combined with 23 years of experience as an elementary school teacher, motivated Ungerer to\u00a0start <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/travel\/former-teachers-nonprofit-provides-school-supplies-to-children-in-need\/2015\/07\/28\/1387449a-3484-11e5-94ce-834ad8f5c50e_story.html?postshare=1691438219363433\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kids R First, a nonprofit group that provides basic school supplies to families in need<\/strong><\/a>. The organization has been growing ever since. This year, Ungerer anticipates that Kids R First will help 25,000 students in 96 schools across Fairfax and Loudoun counties.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/travel\/former-teachers-nonprofit-provides-school-supplies-to-children-in-need\/2015\/07\/28\/1387449a-3484-11e5-94ce-834ad8f5c50e_story.html?postshare=1691438219363433\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post, July 29, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two decades ago, Susan Ungerer was volunteering at a Fairfax County nonprofit group that helps financially strapped families when she noticed a pattern: Parents tended to fall behind with their finances in August and September, just when they had to buy school supplies for their children. That realization, combined with 23 years of experience as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=828\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nonprofit helps with school supplies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[131,128,107,124,123,3,68,38,74,130,6,80],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-alexandria","tag-children","tag-education","tag-fairfax-county","tag-herndon","tag-loudoun-county","tag-nonprofit","tag-poverty","tag-purcellville","tag-reston","tag-schools","tag-sterling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}