{"id":47846,"date":"2017-11-14T10:30:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T15:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=47846"},"modified":"2017-11-14T10:30:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T15:30:21","slug":"brock-gives-thanks-on-national-philanthropy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/11\/brock-gives-thanks-on-national-philanthropy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock gives thanks on National Philanthropy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock University is marking National Philanthropy Day with a great big \u2018thank you.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Canada comes together for the Nov. 15 celebration, the University will be reflecting on the alumni, faculty, staff and donors who provide the support necessary for the institution to thrive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students are the main focus of charitable support at Brock, and the impact created by giving is not lost on them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This support has helped to make Brock the student-centred, community-minded University it is today, said Rushna Imran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fourth-year business economics student hoped to express her gratitude to anyone who has contributed to the school in some form, whether providing generous donations to create additional academic and social spaces on campus, or offering volunteer opportunities to broaden student involvement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imran is grateful for the chances she\u2019s had to donate her time through Brock, including a cherished <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/09\/new-returning-badgers-set-to-show-brock-cares\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock Cares experience<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> visiting with residents at Linhaven, a long-term care facility in St. Catharines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She\u2019s proud to say her school encourages students to get involved outside the classroom and hopes her peers will embrace opportunities to give back to the Brock and Niagara communities, just as donors before them have done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBoth past and current students have benefitted from what you\u2019ve given back to Brock,\u201d Imran said in a message of thanks to the University\u2019s supporters. \u201cWe appreciate all you do and hope future students will benefit too.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BmZlGgkYVew\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University is marking National Philanthropy Day with a great big \u2018thank you.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,1,4],"tags":[3574,3465,3575],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47846"}],"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=47846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47848,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47846\/revisions\/47848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}