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This feature was published in the LA Times on Wednesday, March 27, 2019. By Alejandra Reyes-Velarde.<\/em><\/p>\n Charity distributes $3.6 million donated to aid families of Borderline bar attack.<\/strong><\/p>\n THE SCENE outside the Borderline Bar and Grill after the 2018 shooting. The Ventura County Community Foundation has distributed donations of $3.6 million to help 200 people affected by the violence.<\/p>\n Four months after a dozen people were killed in a mass shooting at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, more than $3 million in donations has been given to the victims\u2019 families.<\/p>\n Checks totaling $3.6 million were recently distributed to more than 200 people who lost loved ones, were injured in the Nov. 8 shooting or were there when the attack happened, said Vanessa Bechtel, chief executive of the Ventura County Community Foundation.<\/p>\n Thousands of people from across the country and world have hosted fundraisers for the victims or donated directly to the foundation, she said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was just a massive effort,\u201d Bechtel said. \u201cI\u2019ve never witnessed this outpouring of support.\u201d<\/p>\n The funds were divided into three tiers: 70% of the money was given to families who lost loved ones in the shooting, 20% was distributed to survivors who were physically injured in the bar and 10% was given to people who were inside the bar when the gunfire erupted.<\/p>\n The money will help with costs such as medical bills, mental health treatment and lost income, Bechtel said.<\/p>\n The shooting shocked the community. And it was just the initial blow of a withering assault on the close-knit suburb, which then had to contend with two massive wildfires that erupted nearby, displacing many who had just lost family members.<\/p>\n The most recent disbursement of money is the third distribution of funds from the foundation. Smaller donations were given to victims immediately after the shooting, and later, $20,000 was provided for burial costs to each family who lost loved ones in the shooting, Bechtel said.<\/p>\n The foundation is still collecting donations, she said. \u201cThere are still a lot of unmet needs.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9083,"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-9082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-coverage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}