{"id":69272,"date":"2005-11-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uris-greek-community-donates-6500-toward-katrina-house-fund\/"},"modified":"2005-11-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T00:00:00","slug":"uris-greek-community-donates-6500-toward-katrina-house-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/11\/uris-greek-community-donates-6500-toward-katrina-house-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Greek community donates $6,500 toward Katrina house fund"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — November 17, 2005 — The 溏心vlog免费B站 Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils combined fundraising efforts during their recent \u201cPhilanthropy Week.\u201d <\/p>\n


\n\tThose efforts paid off in a big way. Together, the fraternity and sorority organizations raised $6,500, which they donated to 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Katrina Habitat for Humanity House Fund. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe fund\u2019s goal is to raise $70,000 to sponsor the building of a home for a family affected by the devastating damage of recent hurricanes in the Gulf area. Once the goal is met, 溏心vlog免费B站 students will participate in building the sponsored house. <\/p>\n


\n\t溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s fraternities and sororities held a number of fundraising events during the week, the most successful philanthropy week to date. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe students were sponsored by area businesses, including Kingston Pizza, Lai Lai, Daniel B\u2019s Bar and Grill, Bagelz, Pizza Pocket, Mexican Grill, New Dragon, Spikes, Tim Horton\u2019s, Subway, and Entertainment Cinemas.<\/p>\n


\n\tAnyone in the community wishing to contribute to the fund should make checks out to \u201c溏心vlog免费B站\u201d and deliver to the Clearinghouse for Volunteers, Room 125, Roosevelt Hall or mail to 90 Lower College Rd., Suite 12, Kingston, R.I. 02881. If community members or community organizations would like to get involved, call 874-2568 or cfv@etal.uri.edu. <\/p>\n


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\nCHECKING IT OUT! Jayne Richmond, dean of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s University College; Fran Cohen, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s assistant vice president for student affairs and dean of students; M. Beverly Swan, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s provost and vice president of academic affairs; Kristen Ahern, nursing student and Philanthropy Week chair for the Panhellenic Council, Kurtis Anderson, a microbiology student and Philanthropy Week chair for the Intrafraternity Council; Merith Weisman-Ross; coordinator Feinstein Center for Service Learning; Evelyn Dvorak of South County Habitat for Humanity; and Steve Simo, director, Greek Affairs, Office of Student Life.

\n溏心vlog免费B站 News Bureau Photo by Michael Salerno.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — November 17, 2005 — The 溏心vlog免费B站 Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils combined fundraising efforts during their recent \u201cPhilanthropy Week.\u201d Those efforts paid off in a big way. Together, the fraternity and sorority organizations raised $6,500, which they donated to 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Katrina Habitat for Humanity House Fund. The fund\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69274,"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-69272","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\/69272","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=69272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}