{"id":21498,"date":"2015-12-03T14:06:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T21:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=21498"},"modified":"2015-12-03T14:19:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T21:19:31","slug":"givingtuesday-raises-85000-in-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=21498","title":{"rendered":"#GivingTuesday raises $85,000+ in 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21501\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21501\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21501\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CVJu13HU8AAZIE9-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"The first 400 donors of $5 or more a pair of socks that bear the UCCS Mountain Lion logo.\" width=\"250\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CVJu13HU8AAZIE9.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CVJu13HU8AAZIE9-150x139.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first 400 donors of $5 or more a pair of socks that bear the UCCS Mountain Lion logo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>UCCS community members donated more than $85,000 during Giving Tuesday, with\u00a0about $20,000 donated to the Officer Garrett Swasey Scholarship Fund.<\/p>\n<p>One donor who requested anonymity pledged $40,000 in scholarship support if at least 400 other donors contributed any amount to UCCS on Dec. 1.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jennifer Hane, director, Alumni Relations and the Annual Fund, UCCS surpassed that goal with more than 900 individual donors, raising more than $45,000. The 900+ donors was a more than 1,000 percent\u00a0participation increase from last year, and was comprised of UCCS faculty, staff, alumni, donors, parents, and students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to everyone who donated on Giving Tuesday,\u201d Hane said. \u201cWith your assistance, we surpassed our goal and raised $85,000, which will help fund scholarships for many deserving students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"740\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tIFsCmTOgxg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Donors were able to select from a variety of scholarship funds or to designate a specific area of personal interest toward which to direct their donations.<\/p>\n<p>Giving Tuesday refers to the Tuesday after Thanksgiving in the United States. It is a movement to create a national day of giving at the beginning of the Christmas and holiday season. \u201cGiving Tuesday\u201d was started in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation as a response to commercialization and consumerism in the post-Thanksgiving season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>UCCS community members donated more than $85,000 during \u201cGiving Tuesday,\u201d with about $20,000 donated to the Officer Garrett Swasey Scholarship Fund. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=21498\" title=\"#GivingTuesday raises $85,000+ in 24 hours\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CVJu13HU8AAZIE9-300x2781.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-5AK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21498"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21505,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21498\/revisions\/21505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}