{"id":11776,"date":"2016-08-17T11:33:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T18:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/?p=11776"},"modified":"2017-01-13T09:24:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T17:24:52","slug":"employee-donor-profile-cecelia-dirksen-targets-her-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2016\/08\/17\/employee-donor-profile-cecelia-dirksen-targets-her-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee donor profile: Cecelia Dirksen targets her gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-single__item-body\">\n<p>\u201cMy little gifts add up!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cecelia Dirksen, assistant to the UFV Dean of Arts, was surprised to find out that she has donated to UFV a total of 260 times over the past eight years, mostly through payroll deduction.<br \/>\n\u201cI hardly notice the payroll donations,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n<p>Cecelia has a unique approach to her gift giving as she specifically chooses to top up funds that are close to reaching the endowed level \u2014 an amount that allows a scholarship or bursary to be awarded annually in perpetuity. She has helped to bring three bursaries to this level and is now working on her fourth. She feels this is a great way to get more bang for her buck and encourages others to consider following suit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn endowed fund means that it will be supporting different students for many decades to come, so I like to help those funds reach endowed status,\u201d she notes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Find out more <a href=\"http:\/\/giving.ufv.ca\/news\/cecelia-dirksen-targets-gifts\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy little gifts add up!\u201d Cecelia Dirksen, assistant to the UFV Dean of Arts, was surprised to find out that she has donated to UFV a total of 260 times over the past eight years, mostly through payroll deduction. \u201cI hardly notice the payroll donations,\u201d she adds. Cecelia has a unique approach to her gift &#8230; <a title=\"Employee donor profile: Cecelia Dirksen targets her gifts\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2016\/08\/17\/employee-donor-profile-cecelia-dirksen-targets-her-gifts\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11777,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11776\/revisions\/11777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}