{"id":15236,"date":"2017-10-16T10:38:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T17:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/?p=15236"},"modified":"2017-10-23T10:20:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T17:20:03","slug":"time-to-support-the-united-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2017\/10\/16\/time-to-support-the-united-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to support the United Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Way Campaign for 2017 has launched at UFV, marking the 34th consecutive year of staff and faculty support for the United Way. So far, UFV has raised a total of $15,423 in pledges, with 21 employees donating. There&#8217;s still time to add your support and bring us back closer to the higher totals that we have raised in the past.<\/p>\n<p>For those who support the cause, a draw will take place at end of campaign (October 31, 2017). All those who make a pledge will be included in a random draw for ten $50 gift cards to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marshalls<\/li>\n<li>Olive Garden<\/li>\n<li>Canadian Tire<\/li>\n<li>Winners\/Home Sense<\/li>\n<li>Moxie&#8217;s Restaurant<\/li>\n<li>Chapters\/Coles\/Indigo<\/li>\n<li>Marks Work Wearhouse<\/li>\n<li>Cineplex Entertainment<\/li>\n<li>Hudson&#8217;s Bay\/Home Outfitters<\/li>\n<li>Best Buy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The United Way supports more than 25 community partners and programs from Aldergrove to Boston Bar, serving a population of a quarter of a million people. The funds raised here stay in our community. Each year <strong>1 in 3 people in the Fraser Valley<\/strong> benefits from a United Way program. The United Way aims to build strong communities, help kids be all they can be, and move people from poverty to possibility.<\/p>\n<p>UFV faculty and staff have a proud history of supporting this worthwhile appeal, meeting the challenge of supporting various community agencies via the United Way. Through this campaign, you can designate your gift to a specific United Way agency of your choice, or to any registered charity. You can choose to make a one-time donation, or sign up to give through payroll donations.<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to join us in personally supporting this worthy cause, please complete this <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ufv.ca\/media\/united-way\/2016UFVPledgeForm.pdf\">fillable pledge form<\/a><\/strong> and return it to Human Resources in Abbotsford by Tuesday, Oct. 31.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Way Campaign for 2017 has launched at UFV, marking the 34th consecutive year of staff and faculty support for the United Way. So far, UFV has raised a total of $15,423 in pledges, with 21 employees donating. There&#8217;s still time to add your support and bring us back closer to the higher totals &#8230; <a title=\"Time to support the United Way\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2017\/10\/16\/time-to-support-the-united-way\/\">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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15236","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=15236"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15313,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15236\/revisions\/15313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}