{"id":35817,"date":"2018-11-07T12:28:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T19:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=35817"},"modified":"2018-11-29T10:29:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T17:29:49","slug":"community-members-pledge-130000-in-giving-tuesday-challenge-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=35817","title":{"rendered":"Community members pledge $130,000 in Giving Tuesday challenge gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GTFbCover.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-35818\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GTFbCover-750x285.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GTFbCover-750x285.png 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GTFbCover-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GTFbCover-768x292.png 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GTFbCover-150x57.png 150w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GTFbCover.png 820w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In support of student scholarships, community members have pledged $130,000 in Giving Tuesday challenge gifts in addition to faculty, staff, parent, alumni and student donations Nov. 27.<\/p>\n<p>The gifts will be unlocked by a variety of social media challenges and given numbers of donations of any amount. Challenges will show up on the social media aggregator on the Giving Tuesday UCCS website day-of.<\/p>\n<p>Challenge money includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$50,000 from the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Rocky Mountain Chapter<\/li>\n<li>$20,000 from All Colorado Beer Festival<\/li>\n<li>$50,000 from Jane Dillon<\/li>\n<li>$10,000 from Clancy Herbst<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/243117181362\/videos\/1868439089934111\/\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block;\"><\/div>\n<p>The first 500 donors to contribute $15 or more will receive a complimentary pair of UCCS Mountain Lion socks. The design choice was the top pick on a social media poll earlier this year. A <a href=\"http:\/\/click.communications.cu.edu\/?qs=0374ef3c0b79bd0e4cda2e1ff537ab3cd5022b186fdacb11c89ab0fb224c61b44074a1d626334a5581d4a2d171314ee055157ea55ee045df\">free breakfast<\/a> for faculty and staff kicks off the day of giving from 7:30 \u2013 9 a.m. in Clyde\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Since #GivingTuesdayUCCS started in 2015, more than $238,000 has been raised for student scholarships across campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to scholarships, I\u2019m able to take the time to give back to my university and community without making substantial sacrifices in my personal life \u2013 like eating and a roof over my head,\u201d said Sierra Brown, English student, class of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>This year falls on the anniversary of the death of UCCS police officer Garrett Swasey. Swasey died Nov. 27, 2015 when responding to a shooting at a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uccs.edu\/givingtuesday\/?cfpage=project&amp;project_id=21787\">scholarship in his name<\/a> was created the year following his death and continues to be funded by Giving Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Gifts will be accepted in person by cash, check or credit card from 10 a.m. \u2013 2 p.m. Nov. 27 outside of Berger Hall or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uccs.edu\/givingtuesday\/\">online<\/a> anytime. Faculty and staff can also use payroll deduction to contribute to one of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uccs.edu\/~givingtuesday\/\"><strong>15 scholarship funds<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0including the Garrett Swasey, athletics, and Karen Possehl Women\u2019s Endowment (KPWE) Scholarship. Donors can also indicate a specific use for their donation.<\/p>\n<p>Clyde the mascot will make an appearance from 10:30 a.m. \u2013 12 p.m. Nov. 27 outside of Berger Hall for polaroid camera photos with those who give. Socks will be mailed to those who make donations off-campus.<\/p>\n<p>For questions, contact Lisa Bartholme at <a href=\"mailto:lbarthol@uccs.edu\">lbarthol@uccs.edu<\/a> or (719) 255-3187.<\/p>\n<p>Give now: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uccs.edu\/givingtuesday\/\">https:\/\/www.uccs.edu\/givingtuesday\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>In support of student scholarships, community members have pledged $130,000 in Giving Tuesday challenge gifts in addition to faculty, staff, parent, alumni and student donations Nov. 27. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=35817\" title=\"Community members pledge $130,000 in Giving Tuesday challenge gifts\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":35818,"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":[1,49,12,14],"tags":[61,107,78,266],"class_list":["post-35817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-campus-announcements","category-events","category-upcoming-events","tag-advancement","tag-alumni-relations","tag-development","tag-office-of-financial-aid-student-employment-and-scholarships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GTFbCover.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-9jH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35817","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36362,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35817\/revisions\/36362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}