{"id":61504,"date":"2018-05-21T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-use-your-voice-change-your-city-united-way-challenges-community-leaders-to-take-action-and-initiate-good\/"},"modified":"2018-05-21T18:20:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T22:20:02","slug":"use-su-voz-cambie-su-ciudad-united-way-desafia-a-los-lideres-comunitarios-a-ponerse-en-accion-e-iniciar-el-bien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/use-su-voz-cambie-su-ciudad-united-way-desafia-a-los-lideres-comunitarios-a-ponerse-en-accion-e-iniciar-el-bien\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Your Voice, Change Your City: United Way Challenges Community Leaders to Take Action and Initiate Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SEATTLE<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 21, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; An eatery that donates a meal to someone in need, three college graduates who help students go to college debt-free and a corporation that is funding solutions so that no child sleeps outside: from individuals to large companies, people in <span class=\"xn-location\">Seattle<\/span> are using their voice to make a positive difference in the community.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgab99left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpgab99left\" title=\"   \" border=\"0\" alt=\"   \" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/510987\/United_Way_of_King_County_Logo.jpg \"\/><\/div>\n<p>On <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 23<\/span><sup>rd<\/sup> at Safeco Field, home of the Seattle Mariners, hundreds of guests will gather to hear and be empowered by stories of initiating and amplifying change at United Way&#8217;s fundraising event, <i>Initiate<\/i>. Speakers include Starbucks Corporation President and CEO <span class=\"xn-person\">Kevin Johnson<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Angela and Ethan Stowell<\/span> of Ethan Stowell Restaurants and <span class=\"xn-person\">Jonathon Sposato<\/span>, chairman and co-founder of GeekWire and PicMonkey. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"xn-location\">Seattle<\/span> is an incredibly giving community and I&#8217;m inspired by individuals and companies using their platform in innovative ways to promote social good,&#8221; says Sposato, United Way of <span class=\"xn-location\">King County&#8217;s<\/span> Campaign Co-chair beginning <span class=\"xn-chron\">July 1<\/span><sup>st<\/sup>. \u00a0&#8220;As a tech entrepreneur, I care about constant innovation, and I love United Way&#8217;s amazing platform as a true and direct solution to solving some of our toughest community challenges, like homelessness and young people dropping out of school. It&#8217;s like 1 + 1 = 3.&#8221; Through its <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uwkc.org\/helping-students-graduate\/reconnecting-youth\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Reconnecting Youth<\/a> program, United Way is working to engage 14,000 young people ages 16-24 in <span class=\"xn-location\">King County<\/span> who have left school without a high school diploma or GED. The program reconnects them to their education through coaching, mentoring and career navigation. <\/p>\n<p>Generous corporate support of Initiate includes Microsoft, Nordstrom, AT&amp;T, Alaska Airlines and Starbucks Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on making sure people have homes, students graduate and families are financially stable, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uwkc.org\/donate\" rel=\"nofollow\">click here<\/a> or visit United Way of <span class=\"xn-location\">King County&#8217;s<\/span> website at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uwkc.org\/donate\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.uwkc.org\/donate<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/510987\/United_Way_of_King_County_Logo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/510987\/United_Way_of_King_County_Logo.jpg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  United Way of <span class=\"xn-location\">King County<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SEATTLE<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 21, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; An eatery that donates a meal to someone in need, three college graduates who help students go to college debt-free and a corporation that is funding solutions so that no child sleeps outside: from individuals to large companies, people in <span class=\"xn-location\">Seattle<\/span> are using their voice to make a positive difference in the community.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgab99left\">&lt;img&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interes-humano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}