{"id":26189,"date":"2013-09-13T20:41:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T00:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=26189"},"modified":"2013-09-13T20:41:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T00:41:59","slug":"fgcu-receives-grant-from-target-to-help-fund-student-leadership-summit-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/09\/fgcu-receives-grant-from-target-to-help-fund-student-leadership-summit-program\/","title":{"rendered":"FGCU Receives Grant from Target to Help Fund Student Leadership Summit Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-26190\" title=\"target-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/target-logo-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/target-logo-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/target-logo.jpg 609w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) recently received a $3,000 grant from Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) to fund its annual Leadership Summit, a daylong program designed to connect student leaders and promote collaborative efforts, develop leadership skills, and build lasting relationships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Leadership Summit is one of the high impact programs offered by the Dean of Students\u2019 Office,\u201d said Assistant Dean of Students Xue Qin Wang.\u00a0\u201cThe program provides opportunities for meaningful interactions among students, faculty, and staff. Target\u2019s generosity will allow us to improve this program by adding a nationally known speaker on leadership and diversity. We are excited about this new partnership with Target.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> The grant is part of Target\u2019s ongoing efforts to build strong, safe, and healthy communities across the country. These efforts include Target\u2019s long history of giving 5 percent of its profit to communities, which today equals more than $4 million every week. As part of this commitment, Target is on track to give<\/p>\n<p>$1 billion for education by the end of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Target, we are committed to serving local communities where we do business,\u201d said Laysha Ward, President, Community Relations, Target. \u201cThat\u2019s why we are proud to partner with Florida Gulf Coast University as we work to strengthen communities and enrich the lives of our guests and team members.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) recently received a $3,000 grant from Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) to fund its annual Leadership Summit, a daylong program designed to connect student leaders and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}