{"id":135098,"date":"2018-04-04T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T12:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=135098"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:35:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T13:35:55","slug":"uconn-hold-first-giving-day-april-4-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/04\/uconn-hold-first-giving-day-april-4-5\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn&#8217;s First Giving Day Starts Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in history, UConn Nation is putting all paws in to support the University during a 36-hour online giving event.<\/p>\n<p>UConn Gives will begin on April 4 and continue through April 5, encouraging supporters to make a gift of any amount to their UConn passion project: from student scholarships, to groundbreaking research, and beloved schools, colleges, and academic programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor 36 hours, UConn\u2019s global community will unite in support of a great cause: strengthening the University they love,\u201d says Josh Newton, president and CEO, UConn Foundation. \u201cPhilanthropic support is essential to UConn\u2019s continued ascension as a top\u00a020 public university. This is an exciting new way for people to make a difference. When UConn Nation rises as one, there\u2019s nothing we can\u2019t achieve!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beginning at 12 a.m., supporters can visit givingday.uconn.edu and make their pledge in support of UConn. Additionally, supporters are encouraged to spread the word with the hashtag #UConnGives on all social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>For more information or to get involved, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/uconn.scalefunder.com\/gday\/giving-day\/5404?utm_source=announcement&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=uconngives18&amp;utm_content=20180305-allsol-button\">givingday.uconn.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Philanthropic support is essential to UConn\u2019s continued ascension as a top 20 public university,&#8217; says Josh Newton, president and CEO of UConn Foundation.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":136198,"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":[173,92,174,2225,90,2234,2233],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[175],"class_list":["post-135098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-avery-point","category-uconn-hartford","category-uconn-stamford","category-uconn-storrs","category-uconn-waterbury","category-university-life","category-university-news"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-27 03:42:32","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\/135098","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135098"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136199,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135098\/revisions\/136199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/136198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135098"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=135098"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=135098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}