{"id":276,"date":"2019-01-02T19:38:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T19:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pokergives.org\/?page_id=276"},"modified":"2019-01-02T19:48:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T19:48:26","slug":"new-executive-director","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pokergives.org\/index.php\/new-executive-director\/","title":{"rendered":"POKER GIVES ANNOUNCES NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Barbara Zangaro Jones, 2017 Golden\nHand Service Award Recipient, appointed as Poker Gives Executive Director<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Las Vegas, NV, January 2, 2019 &#8211; <\/strong>Poker\nGives, now entering its 11<sup>th<\/sup> year providing services to the\ncommunity to military families and homeless veterans, has embraced the work of\nBarbara Zangaro Jones efforts to serve the homeless population of Las\nVegas.&nbsp; She accepted the appointment of\nExecutive Director and is coordinating this important service in a more formal\nway.&nbsp; \u201cWe have been volunteering to help\nthe homeless and support services for victims of domestic violence for over 10\nyears. As a person who works in the poker industry and a poker player myself, I\u2019m\nexcited to now to formalize our efforts under the umbrella of Poker Gives and\ntake our mission to a whole new level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barbara is a volunteer extraordinaire. She has been\ncoordinating efforts to help the homeless in Las Vegas with weekly\ndistributions every Monday night at 701 McWilliams Street where she and a host\nof volunteers distribute donated items such as toiletries, socks, clothing,\nblankets and other items desperately needed by the homeless population. Anyone\nwishing to assist in these efforts, feel free to join in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur organization has grown over the years and whenever it is\nfeasible to expand our programs to serve other needed services in our\ncommunity, we are open to doing so.\u201d Said Lupe Soto, CEO of When Charity Works,\nInc, the parent charitable organization over the Poker Gives program.&nbsp; \u201cBarbara\u2019s dedication and vision on serving\nour community is in perfect alignment with our mission. She brings another\naspect to our current mission of identifying homeless veterans to reintegrate\nthem back into the veteran\u2019s services programs.\u201d She added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poker\nGives was originally founded by poker industry professionals Mike Sexton, Linda\nJohnson, Jan Fisher, and Lisa Tenner as a way for poker players and the poker\nindustry to give back to worthwhile charity organizations. They passed the baton\nto When Charity Works Inc, an all-volunteer charitable organization serving\nNevada in 2015. Poker Gives was then redesigned to serve military families and\nhomeless veterans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poker\nGives gladly accepts all donations of funds, toiletries, clothing, towels, blankets,\nwater and items which can be used as fundraising at our silent auctions and\nother fundraising opportunities.&nbsp; Feel\nfree to visit www.pokergives.org to learn more about our programs and services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poker\nGives is a DBA of&nbsp;When Charity Works, Inc.&nbsp;is a Domestic Non Profit Corporation, Entity Number\nE0222832012-5 and Nevada Business ID NV20121073526, granted by the Secretary of\nState, Carson City, Nevada. When Charity Works is approved by the State of\nNevada under NRS 463.409 to coordinate charitable gaming. When Charity Works,\nInc., EIN number 45-5144519 is lawfully operating as a non-profit Federal Tax\nExempt organization from the Internal Revenue Service. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like\nmore information about Poker Gives, please call Barbara Zangaro Jones at 405-596-6423 or email barbara@pokergives.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Zangaro Jones, 2017 Golden Hand Service Award Recipient, appointed <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pokergives.org\/index.php\/new-executive-director\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-276","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pokergives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pokergives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pokergives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pokergives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pokergives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pokergives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/pokergives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pokergives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pokergives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}