{"id":216,"date":"2022-06-27T17:14:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T21:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemsonalumni1.wpengine.com\/lgbtq\/?p=216"},"modified":"2022-06-27T17:14:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T21:14:58","slug":"growing-lgbtq-leaders-through-our-endowment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.alumniclubs.us\/lgbtq\/blog\/growing-lgbtq-leaders-through-our-endowment\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing LGBTQ+ Leaders Through Our Endowment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Clemson LGBTQ+ Alumni Scholarship Endowment was established in 2011 to provide merit-based scholarships to undergraduate students who have made contributions to the LGBTQ+ community through leadership, service, volunteering, or research.<\/p>\n<p>The student selection is managed by the Clemson University Office of Inclusion and Equity. After reaching the minimum balance of $25,000 in 2017, five students have received a scholarship. As of May 31, 2020, the Council has raised $52,501.85 for the endowment.<\/p>\n<p>Our giving records show there have been 429 gifts from 92 donors, with an average gift of $121.12. Be on the lookout for an upcoming announcement about a matching gift challenge.<\/p>\n<p>To make a donation, please go to this link:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iamatiger.clemson.edu\/giving\">https:\/\/iamatiger.clemson.edu\/giving<\/a>. You will need to search for the\u00a0<em>Clemson LGBTQ+ Alumni Council Scholarship Endowment<\/em>\u00a0to select the correct fund for the student scholarship. The endowment fund is not listed in the\u00a0<em>View Fund List<\/em>\u00a0drop down menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Clemson LGBTQ+ Alumni Scholarship Endowment was established in 2011 to provide merit-based scholarships to undergraduate students who have made contributions to the LGBTQ+ community through leadership, service, volunteering, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.alumniclubs.us\/lgbtq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.alumniclubs.us\/lgbtq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.alumniclubs.us\/lgbtq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.alumniclubs.us\/lgbtq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.alumniclubs.us\/lgbtq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.alumniclubs.us\/lgbtq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.alumniclubs.us\/lgbtq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.alumniclubs.us\/lgbtq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.alumniclubs.us\/lgbtq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}