{"id":49060,"date":"2017-11-15T13:52:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T18:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=49060"},"modified":"2017-11-15T14:04:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T19:04:37","slug":"watch-filling-a-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/11\/15\/watch-filling-a-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Filling a need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/we-serve-u\">We Serve U<\/a> and the Interfraternity Council are working together to help children in the Dayton area.<\/p>\n<p>There are two ways that Wright State students, faculty and staff can help this holiday season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The first is to provide a new, unwrapped gift or toy for children under the age of 17. <\/strong>You can drop off your donation in\u00a0a Toys for Tots bin located in numerous locations around the university. The Interfratenity Council placed bins at Student Activities Office (019 Student Union); Dunbar Library (first floor); Wright State Research Institute lobby; Women&#8217;s Center (148 Millett Hall);\u00a0Veteran and Military Center (131 Allyn Hall);\u00a0Athletics Office (Nutter Center); Institutional Research and Analytics (350 University Hall).<\/p>\n<p>Donation bins will be in place until Dec. 6. After the bins are collected, Toys for Tots will distribute the\u00a0toys as Christmas gifts\u00a0to\u00a0area children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The second way to help is to adopt a child, children\u00a0or family. <\/strong>You and\/or your office, organization or family can choose to &#8220;adopt&#8221; a family for the holidays by providing gifts for them personally based on their modest wish list.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/we-serve-u\/adopt-a-family-for-the-holidays\">Review the list of families<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s in the mission statement to help the communities that we serve,\u201d said Joanie Hendricks, the co-chair of We Serve U.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State has hosted annual toy drives for more than 20 years. This is the third year We Serve U has hosted the gift drive. Last year, more than 800 gifts were donated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Serve U and the Interfraternity Council are working together to help children in the Dayton area.  <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/11\/15\/watch-filling-a-need\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":49061,"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-49060","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\/49060","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=49060"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49065,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49060\/revisions\/49065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}