{"id":6687,"date":"2013-12-10T19:02:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T19:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/?p=6687"},"modified":"2013-12-10T19:44:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T19:44:45","slug":"beyond-expectations-giving-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2013\/12\/10\/beyond-expectations-giving-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Expectations\u2014Giving Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6695\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6695\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6695\" alt=\"Thankful students, and the Annual Giving Team leaders, Lindsay Taflas (center) and Lori Zaniboni (right)\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2013\/12\/GivingTues.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2013\/12\/GivingTues.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2013\/12\/GivingTues-300x109.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thankful students, and the Annual Giving team leaders, Lindsay Taflas (center) and Lori Zaniboni (right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.givingtuesday.org\/News\" target=\"_blank\">Giving Tuesday<\/a>, nationally recognized as the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, fell this year on December 3. The day offers a selfless response to the more indulgent shopping sprees on Black Friday and Cyber Monday by encouraging charitable giving and highlighting worthy causes.<\/p>\n<p>For this Giving Tuesday, KSC&#8217;s Annual Giving team set itself the goal of collecting 100 donations of any amount, to any designation. President <strong>Anne Huot<\/strong> offered to donate an additional $1000 to support KSC students if the 100-donor goal was met. To put things in perspective, the team usually logs about 13 gifts per day. But, by 3 p.m. that afternoon, 100 generous members of the Keene State community had made donations. When she heard that, President Huot offered an additional $500 if the team could bring in an additional 50 donors. By 11:59 that evening, with help from the intrepid Phonathon callers, the team had logged 164 donations!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Giving Tuesday saw $19,127.12 in gifts come to Keene State in 24 hours.<\/strong> Those donations make a real difference in our students&#8217; education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving Tuesday, nationally recognized as the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, fell this year on December 3. The day offers a selfless response to the more indulgent shopping sprees on Black Friday and Cyber Monday by encouraging charitable giving and highlighting worthy causes. For this Giving Tuesday, KSC&#8217;s Annual Giving team set itself the goal of collecting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2013\/12\/10\/beyond-expectations-giving-tuesday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beyond Expectations\u2014Giving Tuesday<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":6688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[449],"class_list":["post-6687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-parents","category-uncategorized","tag-giving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6687"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6697,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687\/revisions\/6697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}