{"id":134860,"date":"2023-02-03T13:42:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T18:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=134860"},"modified":"2023-02-03T13:42:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T18:42:53","slug":"time-and-talents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2023\/02\/03\/time-and-talents\/","title":{"rendered":"Time and talents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Wright State University students, faculty, staff and alumni participated in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wright.edu\/we-serve-u\">We Serve U Volunteer Fair<\/a><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>on Feb. 1 in the Student Union Atrium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Participants connected with 28 community organizations seeking volunteers during the fair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Quiana Bickham, who is the senior program coordinator at the Dakota Center, a community center that serves youth and senior citizens in Dayton\u2019s MacFarlane neighborhood, says Wright State students\u2019 time and talents are always welcome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cEvery Wright State student that we\u2019ve had come through the doors of the Dakota Center the kids absolutely love them,\u201d said Bickham.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Hosted by Wright State\u2019s We Serve U, the event encouraged attendees to volunteer for local organizations throughout Raider Country. Representatives from organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, Hannah\u2019s Treasure Chest, Ohio\u2019s Hospice of Dayton, YWCA and the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force were in attendance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cSome students just want to help out, others may need volunteer hours for a scholarship or a course,\u201d said Joanie Hendricks, We Serve U co-chair. \u201cWe are doing our best to make those connections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>On March 1, Wright State faculty and staff can volunteer at one of five area nonprofits as part of We Serve U Day. We Serve U Day is a day of volunteerism approved by the university administration for staff and faculty to volunteer at community nonprofits without using time off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Faculty and staff can register for We Serve U Day by <a href=\"https:\/\/wright.ca1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_72O2jZdNYml8QaG\">filling out the registration form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State University students, faculty, staff and alumni participated in the We Serve U Volunteer Fair\u00a0on Feb. 1 in the Student Union Atrium. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2023\/02\/03\/time-and-talents\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":134864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,2025,725,727,715,4293,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-community-service","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-student-union","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134873,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134860\/revisions\/134873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}