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Below is a selection from the December 5 issue of Biz Buzz. Read the full story on the VC Reporter Website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Wildfires<\/strong><\/p>\n Amgen Tour of California<\/strong>\u00a0in partnership with the\u00a0LA Kings<\/strong>\u00a0und\u00a0AEG Sports <\/strong>donated $100,000 to the\u00a0Amerikanisches Rotes Kreuz<\/strong>\u00a0in honor of the first responders and those impacted by wildfires in the state. Red Cross volunteers are supporting evacuation centers to provide safe refuge for those who have been impacted by the fires, and they are also providing meals, health services, spiritual care comfort and other support. \u2026 The\u00a0Arterie Art Studio<\/strong>\u00a0will host\u00a0Make for Malibu<\/strong>, an ornament-making workshop to support the\u00a0Malibu Wildfire Educator Fund<\/strong>, developed to support the teachers of Malibu who lost their homes in the Woolsey Fire. The event will take place at\u00a0Vintage Grocers<\/strong>\u00a0at 140 Promenade Way in Westlake Village (The Promenade) on Dec. 16 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Participants choose an hour time slot to enjoy four ornament-making stations and all materials to create a variety of ornaments to keep or gift. For more information, visit\u00a0www.thearterie.org\/calendar<\/a>. \u2026\u00a0Wells Fargo & Company<\/strong>\u00a0donated $1.5 million to several organizations throughout California to support in the ongoing recovery and relief efforts resulting from the wildfires. The recipients (including $100,000 to\u00a0Ventura County Community Development Corp.<\/strong>\u00a0and $25,000 to the\u00a0Ventura County Gemeinschaftsstiftung<\/strong>) are able to help with housing and disaster recovery, mental health assistance, firefighter and first responder support, small business recovery and community relief. Wells Fargo customers in California can make donations to the\u00a0Amerikanisches Rotes Kreuz<\/strong>\u00a0through Wells Fargo ATMs; to date, almost $81,000 has been collected. Go Far Rewards customers have donated more than $8,000 through its rewards accounts. \u2026 The\u00a0Ventura County Coastal Association of Realtors (VCCAR), Santa Barbara Association of Realtors\u00a0<\/strong>und die\u00a0Ojai Valley Board of Realtors<\/strong>\u00a0donated over $650,000 to residents affected by the Thomas Fire and Montecito Mudslides. The Realtor associations launched a fundraising program on May 25 through Sept. 14 and recently distributed the funds, with 278 families receiving grants of up to $3,000 to cover a month\u2019s rent or mortgage payment.\u00a0226 Ventura County families<\/strong>\u00a0received a total of $526,990 and\u00a052 Santa Barbara County families\u00a0<\/strong>received a total of $126,844.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-coverage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}