{"id":55306,"date":"2019-01-08T13:38:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T18:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=55306"},"modified":"2019-01-08T13:38:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T18:38:21","slug":"volunteerfest-promotes-outreach-in-niagara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/01\/volunteerfest-promotes-outreach-in-niagara\/","title":{"rendered":"VolunteerFEST promotes outreach in Niagara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Winter Term gets underway, all members of the Brock community are invited to learn about the many volunteer opportunities available in Niagara.<\/p>\n<p>VolunteerFEST will return to Market Hall from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16 with more than 30 local organizations raising awareness of their activities and actively recruiting new volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>Participants are asked to bring their Brock Card as they navigate the vendor-style setup, if they would like to receive credit for their attendance in the University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/experiencebu\/certificate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Campus-Wide Co-Curriculum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Student Life and Community Experience and Career Education are hosting the biannual event, which kicks off a packed semester of outreach opportunities, both locally and around the world, including <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/86344\">Alternative Reading Week trips<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/84883\">on-campus blood drives<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/events?themes=CommunityService\">and more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about VolunteerFEST and view the entire list of participating organizations, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/91347\">ExperienceBU website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Winter Term gets underway, all members of the Brock community are invited to learn about the many volunteer opportunities available in Niagara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[5052,5050,194,1273],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55306"}],"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=55306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55308,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55306\/revisions\/55308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}