{"id":3735,"date":"2015-04-30T17:20:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T21:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/04\/30\/dins-day-a-success\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:28:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:28:43","slug":"dins-day-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/dins-day-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dins Day&#8221; a success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/dins-day-smaller.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17723 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/dins-day-smaller.jpg\" alt=\"dins-day-smaller\" width=\"555\" height=\"395\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 555px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 555\/395;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Furman University teamed up with alumni, parents and friends from around the world on April 28 to celebrate all things Furman and raise nearly $828,000 in gifts and pledges from 1,543 donors.<\/p>\n<p>April 28 was the last day of classes for students and \u201cDins Day\u201d was a 24-hour celebration where members of the Furman community wore purple, broadcast their Paladin Pride through social media (using #DinsDay) and raised money to support the university\u2019s future students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to bring all of Furman together to celebrate our students on their last day of class and to increase annual philanthropic support of the University,\u201d said Justin Rourk \u201814, Associate Director of Donor Marketing and Annual Giving at Furman and coordinator of the event. \u201cIn addition to wearing purple, we are asking folks to amplify their Paladin Pride by saturating social media with posts about their favorite Furman experiences and memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDins Day\u201d is modeled after similar 24-hour spirit and fundraising blitzes taking place at liberal arts universities around the country. For details about the event, visit the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.furman.edu\/dins-day\">alumni website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Justin Rourk at <a href=\"mailto:justin.rourk@furman.edu\">justin.rourk@furman.edu<\/a> or 864-294-3691.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University teamed up with alumni, parents and friends from around the world on April 28 to celebrate all things Furman and raise nearly $828,000 in gifts and pledges from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735","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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}