{"id":65365,"date":"2010-02-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-helping-haiti-a-special-initiative\/"},"modified":"2010-02-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T00:00:00","slug":"uri-helping-haiti-a-special-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/02\/uri-helping-haiti-a-special-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Helping Haiti: A Special Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tUniversity establishes $5 Making A Difference Campaign and more<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013February 8, 2010\u2014The 溏心vlog免费B站 community would like to make a difference in the lives of Haitians suffering the effects of the devastating earthquake last month. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tFor starters, the University launched a $5 Making a Difference Campaign this week. Every 溏心vlog免费B站 student, faculty, and staff member is being asked to contribute $5 to help Haiti rebuild. If everyone supports the initiative, with just the small donation of $5, the University could raise as much as $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t Donations will be applied directly to Haiti relief and rebuilding efforts. Donations of cash can be brought to the 溏心vlog免费B站 Foundation or checks made payable to the 溏心vlog免费B站 Foundation noting &#8220;溏心vlog免费B站 Helping Haiti 5060\u201d can be mailed to the 溏心vlog免费B站 Foundation, 79 Upper College Road or placed in donation boxes at various locations around campus.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tOther projects, programs, and fundraising efforts are also being planned. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nTo help coordinate all of the efforts, a central website has been created. All updates and announcements about events, initiatives, and fundraising efforts and more can be found at http:\/\/www.uri.edu\/helpinghaiti. Here are some initial happenings:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022\t溏心vlog免费B站 Men&#8217;s Basketball Game, Feb. 20 in the Ryan Center: Student Athlete Advisory Committee members will collect donations when doors open at 3 p.m. until half time.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022\tBenefit Concerts: <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022\tFeb. 24, 6 -9 p.m: &#8220;A Night for Haiti,&#8221; Memorial Union Ballroom <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022\tFeb 26, 6 p.m. to midnight: Rhodypalooza, Memorial Union Ballroom <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022\tOngoing &#8211; Donation booth, Memorial Union and a variety of collection sites in buildings and departments on campus. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University establishes $5 Making A Difference Campaign and more &#13; KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013February 8, 2010\u2014The 溏心vlog免费B站 community would like to make a difference in the lives of Haitians suffering the effects of the devastating earthquake last month. &#13; For starters, the University launched a $5 Making a Difference Campaign this week. Every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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-65365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65365","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=65365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}