{"id":1,"date":"2017-09-26T08:08:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T08:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live.21lab.co\/glb\/\/?p=1"},"modified":"2017-10-20T11:23:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T11:23:37","slug":"family-helping-family-in-the-wake-of-hurricanes-harvey-and-irma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/live.21lab.co\/glb\/family-helping-family-in-the-wake-of-hurricanes-harvey-and-irma\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Helping Family in The Wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI know what it\u2019s like to be in that situation. I was once homeless,\u201d said Genevieve Davis, having seen news reports of Hurricane Harvey\u2019s devastation.\u00a0 A hurricane evacuee herself ten years ago, Davis felt compelled to help victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">So, she rallied with her Global teammates in their Tucson, Arizona office and was one of many who donated 100% of their recently earned overtime pay to the MLBA Disaster Relief Fund. Through a variety of local fundraisers, Global employees around the country have raised more than $136,000 for the fund. You can find Genevieve\u2019s story, and see images of other relief efforts at Global, <span class=\"s2\">here<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The folks managing the relief fund are the good people at Making Lives Better with Global (<span class=\"s2\">MLBG<\/span>), an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit. It\u2019s mission is to make lives better by providing assistance to Global employees, their families and the people, organizations, and communities who support them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">A self-funded, crowd-sourced organization, MLBG lives and breathes at the grassroots level. There\u2019s a chapter at each Global office in the US.\u00a0 Every chapter\u2019s board of directors are the local office employees and they call the shots. They decide how to raise funds, who to help with grants and when and where to volunteer. You\u2019ll find MLBG\u2019s disaster relief updates <span class=\"s2\">here<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI know what it\u2019s like to be in that situation. I was once homeless,\u201d said Genevieve Davis, having seen news reports of Hurricane Harvey\u2019s devastation.\u00a0 A hurricane evacuee herself ten years ago, Davis felt compelled to help victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. So, she rallied with her Global teammates in their Tucson, Arizona office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[10,4,5],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","tag-family","tag-hello","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/live.21lab.co\/glb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/live.21lab.co\/glb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/live.21lab.co\/glb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live.21lab.co\/glb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live.21lab.co\/glb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/live.21lab.co\/glb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live.21lab.co\/glb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/live.21lab.co\/glb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live.21lab.co\/glb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live.21lab.co\/glb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}