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Facebook has donated $150,000 to the United Way of Tarrant County Emergency Relief Fund, to be used to provide evening and weekend meals to area students and their families during the COVID-19 crisis.
“We are so thankful for this generous and important donation by Facebook to help students and their families,” Leah King, president and CEO of United Way of Tarrant County, said. “Area school districts have masterfully responded to the urgent nutritional needs of students and their families, but there is a need for evening and weekend meals especially for the whole family. This investment by Facebook allows us to supplement those efforts while ensuring a more complete nutritional outlook for students and their families as we continue to respond to the needs created by the coronavirus pandemic.”
Facebook, which opened a major data center in Fort Worth in 2015, said it has invested more than $1 million in grants and gifts in Tarrant County for small business recovery, educational technology tools, personal protective equipment, and food security since the pandemic began.
“We appreciate the opportunity to assist United Way of Tarrant County in preventing our local students and their families from going to bed hungry,” said Matt Sexton, community development regional manager for Facebook. “We are so lucky to call Fort Worth home since 2015.”
Since mid-March, United Way of Tarrant County has invested more than $1 million in the community for COVID-19 relief from the Emergency Relief Fund and through federal and state grants.
According to United Way, total community investment from the Emergency Relief Fund to-date is $670,000, and the Area Agency on Aging has invested more than $417,000 in meals for senior citizens.