{"id":124480,"date":"2017-04-07T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=124480"},"modified":"2017-04-07T15:28:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T19:28:31","slug":"around-nation-alumni-reach-rake-hammer-paintbrush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2017\/04\/around-nation-alumni-reach-rake-hammer-paintbrush\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the Nation, Alumni Reach for Rake, Hammer, Paintbrush"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_124523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124523\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Unknown.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-124523 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Unknown-577x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Around the nation, alumni reach for rake, hammer, paintbrush. (UConn Foundation Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"533\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Unknown-577x1024.jpeg 577w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Unknown-169x300.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Unknown-237x420.jpeg 237w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Unknown.jpeg 640w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/533;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Around the nation, alumni reach for rake, hammer, paintbrush. (UConn Foundation Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From cleaning up beaches to building homes, UConn alumni groups across the country will be volunteering in their communities during the month of April for a new community service initiative called <a href=\"http:\/\/uconnalumni.com\/events-reunions\/uconn-cares\/?utm_source=ucalumni&amp;utm_medium=iunstory\">UConn Cares<\/a>.<span id=\"more-9405\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love the idea. It shows how the University is committed to giving back to the community,\u201d said Martin I. Horn \u201973 (CLAS), \u201975 MA, who will be making dog tug toys, cat wands, and other much-needed pet toys at a Chicago animal shelter with his alumni group.<\/p>\n<p>Already several groups, from San Francisco to Boston, have signed up for the UConn Cares community service initiative. The project is flexible. Groups can choose their own service project \u2013 one that has personal meaning to them or their city \u2013 and do it any day during the month of April.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"grey-sidebar floating-sidebar col-xs-12 col-sm-4\">\n  <\/p>\n<h3><strong>Where are all the Huskies?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Did you know?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UConn alumni live in all 50 states, plus Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.<\/li>\n<li>A whopping 57 percent (or 131,912) live in Connecticut.<\/li>\n<li>North Dakota has fewest with just 41 members of UConn Nation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cOur alumni chapters have really embraced this. It\u2019s so exciting,\u201d said Montique Cotton Kelly, associate vice president for Alumni Relations. \u201cUConn alums will be helping across America, doing everything from highway clean-ups to food drives to mentoring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colorado and San Francisco groups, for example, are helping Habitat for Humanity, while a Groton, Conn. chapter is cleaning up the beach at UConn\u2019s Avery Point campus. The UConn Foundation\u2019s alumni staff is pitching in too. They\u2019ll be cleaning up and painting Paul Newman\u2019s Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Ashford, Conn.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers will get a UConn t-shirt and groups are encouraged to post photos of their projects at #uconncares. <a href=\"http:\/\/uconnalumni.com\/events-reunions\/uconn-cares\/?utm_source=ucalumni&amp;utm_medium=iunstory\" target=\"_blank\">Find a project near you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Matt Fraulino \u201905 at <a href=\"mailto:mfraulino@foundation.uconn.edu\">mfraulino@foundation.uconn.edu<\/a> or 860-486-2201.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn alumni groups across the country will be volunteering in their communities during the month of April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":124520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,1715,173,92,174,2225,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-124480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-community-impact","category-uconn-avery-point","category-uconn-hartford","category-uconn-stamford","category-uconn-storrs","category-university-life"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 07:18:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124480"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124574,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124480\/revisions\/124574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/124520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124480"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=124480"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=124480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}