{"id":211,"date":"2011-04-13T00:40:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T04:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2011-04-13T00:40:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T04:40:49","slug":"giving-back-to-your-local-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/college-fun\/giving-back-to-your-local-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Back To Your Local Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5087\/5330602481_4d0240e456.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, graduation is almost here but there&#8217;s still so many opportunities to really get involved and make a different in your community!  Below we&#8217;ve highlighted a few that might peak your interest. \u00a0Give them a try if you have some time!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Donate Clothes Or Unneeded Goods &#8211; Do you really need that extra futon or dining room table?  If you&#8217;re not a big fan of lugging it back home, consider donating it to the local non-profits.  Alternatively you can always craigslist it and then donate the proceeds!<\/li>\n<li>Donate Your Time &#8211; Grab some friends and go help out locally.  Whether it&#8217;s at a senior house, a trash clean-up, at a soup kitchen, or anything else&#8230; there&#8217;s so many opportunities to get involved.<\/li>\n<li>Donate Some Mula! &#8211; Yep cash!  Imagine if you could get each member of your house to donate just $5.  That amount would go a long way for many local charities.<\/li>\n<li>Setup An Annual Charity Event &#8211; The beauty with Greek organizations is the highly motivated and tight knit group of individuals involved in them.  At my fraternity, the alumni had setup 2 major events.  One was a haunted house that we put on every Halloween for the children in Isla Vista.  And the other was a Spring Carnival filled with Jolly Jumpers, free food, music, carnival games, and more.  During my years as an active, myself and other bros setup an annual poker tournament.  Now 8 years later the tournament is still a tradition with the proceeds donated to various charities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vastateparksstaff\/5330602481\/\">photo credit<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, graduation is almost here but there&#8217;s still so many opportunities to really get involved and make a different in your community! Below we&#8217;ve highlighted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[131,154,252,596],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-fun","tag-college-graduation","tag-community-service","tag-getting-involved","tag-volunteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}