{"id":21105,"date":"2018-08-29T15:56:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T20:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=21105"},"modified":"2018-08-29T20:28:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T01:28:42","slug":"baylor-giving-day-raises-more-than-520000-for-bu-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2018\/08\/baylor-giving-day-raises-more-than-520000-for-bu-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor Giving Day raises more than $520,000 for BU students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21107\" style=\"display: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/givingday-success-aug18.jpg\" alt=\"Baylor students say Thank you!\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/givingday-success-aug18.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/givingday-success-aug18-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/givingday-success-aug18-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Baylor Family &#8212; you made BU&#8217;s first university-wide <a href=\"https:\/\/baylor.scalefunder.com\/gday\/giving-day\/8582\">Giving Day<\/a> a success!<\/p>\n<p>In basically 24 hours, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tfWZMn9wSe4\">your 2,700+ gifts raised more than $520,000<\/a> in support of current and future Baylor students.\u00a0(For context, that&#8217;s both more gifts and more money than TCU raised during their last giving day &#8212; because beating TCU is always fun.)\u00a0Bears pitched in from 43 of 50 states nationwide, and gave to more than 100 different areas of the university.<\/p>\n<p>What will that money do? It means more student scholarships, more mission opportunities, more athletics support,\u00a0more building improvements&#8230; more of so many things that will improve students&#8217; Baylor experiences.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tfWZMn9wSe4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On behalf of Baylor students, both present and future &#8212; THANK YOU!<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor Family!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, Baylor Family &#8212; you made BU&#8217;s first university-wide Giving Day a success! In basically 24 hours, your 2,700+ gifts raised more than $520,000 in support of current and future Baylor students.\u00a0(For context, that&#8217;s both more gifts and more money than TCU raised during their last giving day &#8212; because beating TCU is always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-vision","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}