{"id":2084,"date":"2024-08-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/blogtest\/fall-2024-employee-charitable-giving-campaign\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:18:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:18:04","slug":"fall-2024-employee-charitable-giving-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/fall-2024-employee-charitable-giving-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2024 Employee Charitable Giving Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">MTSU\u2019s annual Charitable Giving Campaign is a monthlong effort by faculty and staff to support worthy causes. The campaign is fueled largely by monthly payroll deductions from employees over the next year but also allows one-time, lump-sum gifts at the donor\u2019s discretion.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">MTSU employees again showed their True Blue spirit with a record $158,278.74 pledged during the 2023 Employee Charitable Giving Campaign. The pledge total easily surpassed the $147,500 goal, with 755 participants taking part in the annual tradition.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This incredible amount reveals the caring nature of our faculty and staff and reflects a collective acknowledgement that it&#8217;s important to give back to this great community.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">During the upcoming Oct. 1\u2013Nov. 1 campaign, we hope to break last year\u2019s record giving amount and, in fact, to reach $160,000 in giving.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Participants can designate gifts to organizations from a list of 10 independent charities and three federated groups of charities, including Community Health Charities, Community Shares, and local United Way organizations.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This campuswide effort shows what it really means to be True Blue.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTSU&#8217;s annual Charitable Giving Campaign is a monthlong effort by faculty and staff to support worthy causes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3089,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions\/3089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}