{"id":47797,"date":"2017-09-14T09:04:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=47797"},"modified":"2017-09-14T09:04:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:04:19","slug":"volunteer-fair-at-wright-state-draws-a-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/09\/14\/volunteer-fair-at-wright-state-draws-a-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Fair at Wright State draws a crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State students, faculty and staff learned about opportunities to give back to the community at the We Serve U Volunteer Fair on Sept. 12 in the Student Union Atrium.<\/p>\n<p>The sixth annual fair hosted 28 nonprofit organizations for which the Wright State community members can volunteer.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wright.edu\/we-serve-u\">Wright State\u2019s We Serve U<\/a>, the event encouraged students to volunteer for local organizations throughout Raider Country. Representatives from organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, Hannah\u2019s Treasure Chest, Homefull, YWCA and a Special Wish were in attendance, as well as Wright State organizations such as the Friendship Food Pantry, Student Government Association and the Center for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe feel that the Volunteer Fair provides Wright State students, staff and faculty with an opportunity to learn about the organizations that mean the most to them. Many people want to volunteer but don\u2019t know where to start,\u201d said Joanie Hendricks, We Serve U co-chair. \u201cThe Volunteer Fair is also a fantastic resource for students who may need to complete service hours for a class, scholarship or organizational requirement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/01\/09\/wright-state-university-to-celebrate-50th-anniversary-throughout-2017\/wright-state-50th-600x400\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43671\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-43671\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2017\/01\/Wright-State-50th-600x400-260x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>Originally founded as a branch campus of The Ohio State University and Miami University, Wright State became an independent institution in 1967. It celebrates its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wright.edu\/50th\">50th anniversary<\/a> in 2017, culminating with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wright.edu\/event\/homecoming\">special Homecoming celebration<\/a> Sept. 29 through Oct. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State students, faculty and staff learned about opportunities to give back to the community. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/09\/14\/volunteer-fair-at-wright-state-draws-a-crowd\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":47798,"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-47797","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\/47797","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=47797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47803,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47797\/revisions\/47803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}