{"id":63106,"date":"2010-05-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uris-greek-chapters-hold-book-drive\/"},"modified":"2010-05-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T00:00:00","slug":"uris-greek-chapters-hold-book-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/05\/uris-greek-chapters-hold-book-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Greek chapters hold book drive"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tCollected nearly 4,000 books for First Book organization

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\n\tKINGSTON, R.I.\u2014May 3, 2010\u2014During Greek Week in April, the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s PanHellenic Council, which represents 10 sororities and the Interfraternity Council, which represents 12 fraternities, held a book drive for First Book. The organization provides new books to children in need, addressing one of the most important factors affecting literacy \u2013 access to books. <\/p>\n


\n\tSince it was founded nearly 20 years ago, First Book has delivered more than 65 million books to programs serving children in need across America and Canada. <\/p>\n


\n\tThis year, 溏心vlog免费B站 Greeks collected 3,446 books for preschoolers through adult and 60 classics. Books are still coming in. \u201cIt was a huge success,\u201d says Brittany Campbell, who heads First Book 溏心vlog免费B站, a student-run organization since 2008. Campbell notes that First Book 溏心vlog免费B站 is the only chapter in the state. <\/p>\n


\n\tDuring Greek Week, sororities and fraternities paired together, collecting books from their members. Max Moss, vice president of programming for IFC and Lauren DiStefano, vice president of philanthropy and programming for Panhellenic, managed the drive. Greek chapters competed to collect the most books, thereby earning the most \u201cpoints.\u201d Although some books have yet to be counted, it appears that Phi Sigma Sigma collected the most books. <\/p>\n


\n\tRhode Island children from low-income families who have inadequate resources to buy age-appropriate books will be the beneficiaries of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Greeks\u2019 generosity. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThrough our program, the children begin to build at-home libraries to help improve their literary skills,\u201d says Campbell. <\/p>\n


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\n溏心vlog免费B站 students (from left) Noel Slater of Sigma Phi Epsilon, Lauren DiStefano of Zeta Tau Alpha, and Jessica Severino of Phi Sigma Sigma stack some of the books they collected for First Book. 溏心vlog免费B站 photo by Nora Lewis.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Collected nearly 4,000 books for First Book organization \u2028 KINGSTON, R.I.\u2014May 3, 2010\u2014During Greek Week in April, the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s PanHellenic Council, which represents 10 sororities and the Interfraternity Council, which represents 12 fraternities, held a book drive for First Book. The organization provides new books to children in need, addressing one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}