{"id":152597,"date":"2021-12-02T16:26:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T02:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=152597"},"modified":"2021-12-02T16:26:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T02:26:32","slug":"giving-tuesday-2021-totals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/12\/02\/giving-tuesday-2021-totals\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Tuesday hauls in record donations for <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/uh-foundation-giving-tuesday-2021.jpeg\" alt=\"5 students air jumping\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-152598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/uh-foundation-giving-tuesday-2021.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/uh-foundation-giving-tuesday-2021-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/uh-foundation-giving-tuesday-2021-130x73.jpeg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> <span aria-label=\"ohana\">&#699;ohana<\/span> answered the call to &ldquo;Come Together&rdquo; for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/11\/29\/uh-foundation-giving-tuesday\/\">second year of <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Giving Tuesday<\/a>, raising $245,639 from 1,209 donors and more than tripling the efforts of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Foundation<\/a>\u2019s inaugural Giving Tuesday last year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Related <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/12\/08\/uh-giving-tuesday-raises-73k\/\">First <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Giving Tuesday raises $73K to support students<\/a>, December 8, 2020<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;We are grateful for the generosity of the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> community this year, which has been nothing short of amazing,&rdquo; <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Vice President of Advancement and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Foundation <abbr title=\"chief executive officer\">CEO<\/abbr> <strong>Tim Dolan<\/strong> said. &ldquo;Thank you to each and every one of the donors who came together for the second <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Giving Tuesday. Every gift makes an impact, especially to the students, faculty and researchers who work so hard to make Â鶹´«Ã½such a special place.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The gifts included nearly $70,000 in matching funds, including $25,000 from <abbr>UH<\/abbr> President <strong>David Lassner<\/strong>, who challenged the drive to draw 1,000 gifts, $20,000 from <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Athletics Director <strong>David Matlin<\/strong> and his wife, Dana, and matching funds from campus administrators, alumni and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 as an American day of philanthropy and giving in response to the consumerism of Black Friday and the holidays. Over the past nine years, this idea has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate and celebrate generosity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\">Help support <abbr>UH<\/abbr> students and programs here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The money raised came from 1,209 donors, more than tripling the efforts of the inaugural <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Giving Tuesday last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,62,63,64,65,71,319,14,9,60,947,59,66],"class_list":["post-152597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-foundation","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152597"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152611,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152597\/revisions\/152611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}