{"id":2036,"date":"2010-03-24T15:33:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T20:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2010-03-24T15:33:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T20:33:33","slug":"pancakes-take-centre-stage-at-family-campaign-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/03\/pancakes-take-centre-stage-at-family-campaign-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Pancakes take centre stage at Family Campaign Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2035\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2035\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2035\" title=\"Michelle Kerr\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/campaignbreakfast.jpg\" alt=\"campaignbreakfast\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Kerr, major gifts officer, gets some breakfast at the annual Family Campaign Breakfast for a Bold New Brock.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nearly 100 faculty and staff gathered for pancakes and scrambled eggs this week at the annual Family Campaign Breakfast at Pond Inlet.<\/p>\n<p>The March 23 event was hosted by Tom Arkell and Lorne Adams, co-chairs of the Family Campaign for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boldnewbrock.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Campaign for a Bold New Brock<\/a>. The overall campaign goal is to raise $75 million by 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re making great progess. So far, we have raised more than $45 million,\u201d said Murray Knuttila, Provost and Vice-President, Academic.<\/p>\n<p>Internal support sends a clear message to outside donors that Brock employees support their University, he said.<\/p>\n<p>And by Brock raising $75 million, that will leverage federal and provincial government investments into more than $266 million worth of capital building projects.<\/p>\n<p>Through the annual fund, he said, Brock hopes to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> enrich the learning experience of students by investing in teaching and research facilities to expand knowledge and empower our faculty as educators, researchers and innovators<\/li>\n<li> reinforce Brock as an innovative Canadian university with strong community leadership, while having an international scope and character<\/li>\n<li> help move Niagara from a manufacturing-based economy to a knowledge-based one<\/li>\n<li> encourage the birth of small and medium-sized businesses through the innovative research being done at Brock<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Every faculty and staff member should have received a pledge form through inter-office mail. Anyone interested in donating can drop off the form at TH265e or send it to the Office of Development and Donor Relations through inter-office mail.<\/p>\n<p>Staff can choose to give via payroll contribution or the standard methods of cash, cheque or credit card. For more information on the Family Campaign, including frequently asked questions, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/boldnewbrock.ca\/family\" target=\"_blank\">boldnewbrock.ca\/family<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 100 faculty and staff gathered for the annual Family Campaign Breakfast at Pond Inlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2038,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/2038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}