{"id":85767,"date":"2013-11-06T08:32:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T13:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=85767"},"modified":"2013-11-08T08:49:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T13:49:19","slug":"making-a-difference-close-to-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2013\/11\/making-a-difference-close-to-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a Difference Close to Home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Engineering major Bryan Hallinan, a first-generation college student and recipient of the first Close to Home scholarship established by UConn faculty and staff. (UConn Foundation Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For Bryan Hallinan, it was the perfect time to receive the first Close to Home scholarship established by UConn faculty and staff.<\/p>\n

He learned of his award in September, after spending a very rewarding semester in Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt couldn\u2019t have come at a better time,\u201d he says, adding that a scholarship supported by UConn faculty and staff is particularly meaningful to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am truly grateful for support that enables me to develop my career,\u201d says Hallinan, a first-generation college student, who tries not to worry about the debt he has accumulated getting his UConn degree. The Rhode Island native is looking for jobs in forensic engineering, hoping to take advantage of the research he has undertaken through his work-study experience as an undergraduate.<\/p>\n

\u201cKnowing that some UConn faculty and staff had gone above and beyond their daily jobs to donate to a scholarship fund helps you realize how deeply they value education and helping students,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

The Close to Home Campaign began in 2006 as a way for UConn\u2019s faculty and staff to make a gift to the University. During the last fiscal year, 1,926 faculty and staff members donated more than $6 million to the campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery gift makes a difference, and our goal is to make it easy to give to UConn,\u201d says Close to Home Campaign co-chair Jennifer Person. Faculty and staff can use payroll deduction to make donations of just $1 per pay period or as much as they can afford, and they can designate the support for any one of more than 300 different programs or funds. An endowed fund can be established by faculty or staff with a pledge of $10,000 made over five years.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to make it easy for any faculty or staff member to support any area of UConn that is meaningful to them,\u201d says Person.<\/p>\n

The 2013-2014 Close to Home campaign began this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Giving to the Foundation’s Close to Home campaign is an easy way for faculty and staff to support University programs and people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":68901,"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":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[132],"class_list":["post-85767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 09:44:29","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\/85767","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85781,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85767\/revisions\/85781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/68901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85767"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=85767"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=85767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}