{"id":5576,"date":"2018-11-08T19:27:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T03:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/?p=5576"},"modified":"2025-01-29T07:48:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T07:48:35","slug":"vccf-responds-to-mass-shooting-in-thousand-oaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/vccf-responds-to-mass-shooting-in-thousand-oaks\/","title":{"rendered":"La VCCF responde al tiroteo masivo en Thousand Oaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<b><strong>Para publicaci\u00f3n inmediata<\/strong><\/b><br \/>\nThursday, November 8, 2018<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Press Contact:<\/strong><\/b><br \/>\nVanessa Bechtel, Fundaci\u00f3n Comunitaria del Condado de Ventura<br \/>\n805-453-8031<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>La comunidad del condado de Ventura responde al tiroteo masivo en Thousand Oaks\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nVentura County Community Foundation Sets Up Victim Relief &amp; Recovery Fund<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thousand Oaks, Ventura County<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Last night, an unspeakable tragedy occurred with the shooting deaths of 12 of our community members including a Ventura County Sheriff Sergeant.<\/p>\n<p>While the horror washes over all of us, many from around the region and around the country are leaping into action to support the victims, families, law enforcement community and organizations providing first and second line support.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/\">Fundaci\u00f3n Comunitaria del Condado de Ventura<\/a>\u00a0(VCCF), in coordination with City of Thousand Oaks, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Amgen Foundation, California Community Foundation, and others, has set up a specific fund to serve this purpose.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>VCCF Board Chair, Scott Hansen said,<\/strong> \u201cWe are at a loss for words but not actions. Ventura County Community Foundation stands with the families and law enforcement community. We have set up a victim\u2019s relief and recovery fund this morning and are helping organize the wave of incoming support from individuals, companies and organizations. We share our deepest condolences for the families who have lost loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drew Powers, City Manager for the City of Thousand Oaks said,<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cAs our city moves through this tragedy, our hearts are with all of those impacted in this community and beyond. We are overwhelmed with the outpouring of support, and will be here with all of you as we move through the healing process together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pat Modugno from Conrad N. Hilton Foundation said<\/strong>, \u201cWe are deeply saddened by these senseless events that are occurring at our places of worship, where we educate our children, recreation, and where people are enjoying life. Today we mourn and our hearts are with our neighbors at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cynthia M. Patton, Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer at Amgen, and Chairperson of the Amgen Foundation Board, said,<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cThe Amgen family woke up today both horrified by last night\u2019s tragedy and determined to do our part to support our community in this time of need. Amgen will work closely with the Ventura County Community Foundation and the City of Thousand Oaks to ensure that those touched by this event are supported in every way possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Antonia Hern\u00e1ndez from the California Community Foundation said\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;Community foundations stand together, so we are all bound by our responsibility to serve in times of crisis. Our hearts are broken but our resolve is strong to offer our support to the short and long term needs of the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To make donations, please go to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/\">www.vccf.org<\/a>\u00a0or call Bonnie Gilles 805-330-6681.<\/p>\n<p>Ventura County Community Foundation will post more information on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VenturaCountyCommunityFoundation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VCCF Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-posts","category-latest-coverage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}