{"id":41162,"date":"2016-05-13T08:21:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T12:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=41162"},"modified":"2016-05-12T16:17:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T20:17:10","slug":"giving-from-wright-state-retirees-hits-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/05\/13\/giving-from-wright-state-retirees-hits-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving from Wright State retirees hits record high"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_41163\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?attachment_id=41163\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41163\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41163\" class=\"wp-image-41163 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2016\/05\/17026_588-508x343.jpg\" alt=\"Wright State President David R. Hopkinsspoke to former faculty and staff members May 7 during the annual Wright State University Retirees Association Luncheon.\" width=\"460\" height=\"311\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wright State President David R. Hopkins spoke to former faculty and staff members May 7 during the annual Wright State University Retirees Association Luncheon. (Photo by Will Jones)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>More than a quarter million dollars was donated to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/retirees-association\">Wright State University Retirees Association<\/a> for scholarships and other campus programs in 2015, a record amount.<\/p>\n<p>The association gave donations of over $256,000 from 200 retirees \u2014 an average gift of $1,281 \u2014 to the Wright State Foundation. In addition to being a record amount, it was also a record number of donations and a record average donation.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to 2011, the participation rate ranged from 3 percent to 8 percent. It has more than doubled since then.<\/p>\n<p>In the past four years, retirees have donated $756,270, with an average annual amount of $189,000. Total giving since 2001 stands at $885,000.<\/p>\n<p>The donations are distributed to campus programs, including the retirees association\u2019s Nick Davis Scholarship Endowment, which currently totals $67,000. In the past two years, the endowment has grown by $11,000 annually.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1993, the association is devoted to serving the needs of Wright State retirees and the university. There are currently about 1,200 retirees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a quarter million dollars was donated to the Wright State Retirees Association for scholarships and other campus programs in 2015, a record amount. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/05\/13\/giving-from-wright-state-retirees-hits-record-high\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[711,2040,725,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-giving","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41162","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41165,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41162\/revisions\/41165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}