{"id":35589,"date":"2024-12-13T11:59:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T16:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=35589"},"modified":"2024-12-13T11:59:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T16:59:53","slug":"furman-among-beneficiaries-of-the-duke-endowments-1-9-billion-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-among-beneficiaries-of-the-duke-endowments-1-9-billion-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman among beneficiaries of The Duke Endowment&#8217;s $1.9 billion grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next 15 years, The Duke Endowment will distribute $1.9 billion to four colleges in the Carolinas, including Furman University in South Carolina and three others in North Carolina. The pledge is part of a larger $5 billion grant from The Duke Endowment, which announced its plans at an event celebrating the foundation&#8217;s 100th anniversary. To date, The Duke Endowment has provided <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-duke-endowment-celebrates-a-century-of-philanthropy-including-another-25-million-to-furman\/\">$77.5 million<\/a> toward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/furman-advantage\/\">The Furman Advantage<\/a>. Learn more in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/quick-takes\/2024\/12\/12\/duke-endowment-pledges-19-billion-four-colleges\">Inside Higher Education<\/a> and in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michaeltnietzel\/2024\/12\/11\/the-duke-endowment-plans-to-give-four-colleges-at-least-19--billion-over-15-years\/\">Forbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a celebration culminating The Duke Endowment&#8217;s 100th Anniversary, the foundation announced its plans to distribute $1.9 billion to colleges in the Carolinas over the next 15 years. See more in Forbes and in Inside Higher Education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":25582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1981,6,1935,35,90,61],"tags":[2988,3186,130,758],"class_list":["post-35589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admission","category-forbes","category-in-the-news","category-inside-higher-ed","category-parent-news","category-president","category-the-furman-advantage","tag-forbes","tag-inside-higher-education","tag-philanthropy","tag-the-duke-endowment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35589"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35594,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35589\/revisions\/35594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}