{"id":6782,"date":"2017-08-07T20:03:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T20:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/08\/school-tools-turns-seven\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:57:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:57:37","slug":"school-tools-turns-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/school-tools-turns-seven\/","title":{"rendered":"School Tools Turns Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_33289\" style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33289\" class=\"wp-image-33289 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Chart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"400\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 227px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 227\/400;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-33289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">School Tools Impact<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Seven years ago, Furman University first partnered with the United Way of Greenville County to provide elementary and middle school students with supplies to begin the school year.<\/p>\n<p>Since that time, the university community has supported 770 students through the United Way\u2019s School Tools program. That\u2019s about the size of Furman\u2019s incoming freshman class.<\/p>\n<p>This year, members of the Furman community provided support for 131 students compared to 70 in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis program has been such a great match for Furman,\u201d says Furman Community Relations Director Chandra Dillard, who has led the annual campaign for seven years. \u201cIt\u2019s about education, and it&#8217;s about providing support for the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Each contributed package includes pencils, notebooks, folders, index cards, glue sticks and hand sanitizer.\u00a0 School Tools helps more than 3,000 Greenville County students begin school ready to learn each year by providing school supplies and a backpack.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven years ago, Furman University first partnered with the United Way of Greenville County to provide elementary and middle school students with supplies to begin the school year. Since that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6782","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\/6782","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}