{"id":21416,"date":"2025-01-31T08:49:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T13:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=21416"},"modified":"2025-01-31T09:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T14:48:04","slug":"the-future-is-calling-celebrate-wilkes-giving-day-on-monday-february-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/the-future-is-calling-celebrate-wilkes-giving-day-on-monday-february-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future is Calling: Celebrate Wilkes Giving Day on Monday, February 3!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif\">On Monday, February 3, the campus community will come together to celebrate <strong>Wilkes Giving Day 2025<\/strong>. This year\u2019s theme,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Give Back to Our Future,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0inspired by\u00a0<em>Back to the Future<\/em>, reflects our shared commitment to shaping what lies ahead for our students and beloved university.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif\">Giving Day, a 24-hour fundraiser in support of key prioritized areas across campus, is about more than just fundraising<span class=\"gmail_default\">\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<\/span>it\u2019s about participation, engagement, and the collective impact we can make together. This year, we have an extraordinary opportunity:\u00a0<strong>a generous donor has pledged a six-figure challenge gift, the largest in Wilkes Giving Day history. But this transformative support can only be unlocked if we surpass our donor goal<span class=\"gmail_default\">\u00a0of\u00a0<u>850 donors<\/u>.<\/span>\u00a0Regardless of the gift amount, every donor counts.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif\">Students, faculty and staff are invited to participate in this collective effort and give to areas that will continue to help us build a better, stronger and more affordable institution for our students. <b>To learn more or to contribute, please visit our official Giving Day website at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilkes.edu\/givingday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.wilkes.edu\/givingday&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1738413697809000&amp;usg=AOvVaw261x7FbGPmp8S0U3WBn6bc\">www.wilkes.edu\/givingday<\/a><\/b>.<span class=\"gmail_default\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, February 3, the campus community will come together to celebrate Wilkes Giving Day 2025. This year\u2019s theme,\u00a0&#8220;Give Back to Our Future,&#8221;\u00a0inspired by\u00a0Back to the Future, reflects our shared commitment to shaping what lies ahead for our students and beloved university. Giving Day, a 24-hour fundraiser in support of key prioritized areas across campus,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/the-future-is-calling-celebrate-wilkes-giving-day-on-monday-february-3\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Future is Calling: Celebrate Wilkes Giving Day on Monday, February 3!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21437,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21416\/revisions\/21437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}