{"id":5796,"date":"2024-04-15T15:52:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T20:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/?p=5796"},"modified":"2024-04-30T16:30:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T21:30:52","slug":"ntc-day-of-giving-raises-over-79000-on-april-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/2024\/04\/15\/ntc-day-of-giving-raises-over-79000-on-april-10\/","title":{"rendered":"NTC Day of Giving Shatters Goals, Raises More Than $79,000 on April 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donors from across the region recently showed up in a big way to support Northwest Technical College students.<\/p>\n<p>Over $79,000 (surpassing the campaign&rsquo;s $60,000 goal) was raised by more than 60 alumni, faculty, staff, community members and industry partners during NTC&rsquo;s Day of Giving on April 10.<\/p>\n<p>Donors could choose to direct their gifts to three unique designations on that day, allowing them to support NTC students in ways that interested them most.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Career Catalyst Fund<\/strong><br>\nThe Career Catalyst Fund supports students who need assistance purchasing tools, equipment or materials they need to succeed in their classes and get a jump on their careers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Student Emergency Fund Grant<\/strong><br>\nGifts toward Student Emergency Fund Grants provide immediate assistance to students experiencing crises such as medical emergencies, housing insecurity, sudden loss of income or other unexpected financial challenges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. General Scholarship Fund<\/strong><br>\nThis fund provides scholarships to students and helps them turn their dreams of a college education into reality.<\/p>\n<p>Day of Giving is coordinated by the NTC Foundation, which is a non-profit organization that exists to support NTC students through scholarships, grants and other critical funding initiatives. The foundation has raised over $200,000 since hosting its first Day of Giving in 2019.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5539\" style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5539 img-fluid\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/DSC_0252.jpg\" alt=\"Students and their families gathered for NTC's 2023 Fall Welcome Day.\" width=\"615\" height=\"346\" data-bp=\"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/DSC_0252.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/DSC_0252.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/DSC_0252-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at NTC&rsquo;s 2023 Fall Welcome Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donors from across the region recently showed up in a big way to support Northwest Technical College students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":5780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5796"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5805,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions\/5805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}