{"id":11490,"date":"2018-10-30T10:50:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T14:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=11490"},"modified":"2022-03-22T12:02:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T16:02:26","slug":"grateful-for-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/grateful-for-k\/","title":{"rendered":"Grateful for K Day Slated for Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Students participate in Grateful for K Day by writing thank-you notes showing appreciation to Kalamazoo College donors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Students, faculty, staff and alumni will celebrate a day honoring Kalamazoo College\u2019s philanthropic donors from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Hicks Student Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sponsored by the Kalamazoo College Fund<\/a>, Grateful for K Day \u2013 conducted twice a year<\/a> \u2013 calls on students to honor the importance of philanthropy in sustaining and enhancing Kalamazoo College by writing personalized notes to thank donors for their support. Donations help about 98 percent of K students receive scholarships or some other form of financial aid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All students are welcome to participate. Coffee and cookies will be served.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a donor, please share your \u201cWhy I’m Grateful – Why I Give\u201d<\/a> stories on our website<\/a> or Facebook page<\/a>, where you can also learn more about Grateful for K Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Students, faculty, staff and alumni will celebrate a day honoring Kalamazoo College\u2019s philanthropic donors from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Hicks Student Center. Sponsored by the Kalamazoo College Fund, Grateful for K Day \u2013 conducted twice a year \u2013 calls on students to honor the importance of philanthropy in sustaining and enhancing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":11492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,234,231],"tags":[38],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-11490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-events","category-students","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"\r\nGrateful for K Day Slated for Wednesday - News and Events<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kalamazoo College will honor its philanthropic donors with Grateful for K Day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Hicks Student Center.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/grateful-for-k\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Grateful for K Day Slated for Wednesday - 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Kalamazoo College\u2019s philanthropic donors from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/map.concept3d.com\/?id=198#!m\/17918\">Hicks Student Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/giving\/\">Kalamazoo College Fund<\/a>, Grateful for K Day \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/giving\/grateful4k\/\">conducted twice a year<\/a> \u2013 calls on students to honor the importance of philanthropy in sustaining and enhancing Kalamazoo College by writing personalized notes to thank donors for their support. Donations help about 98 percent of K students receive scholarships or some other form of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/finaid\">financial aid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All students are welcome to participate. Coffee and cookies will be served.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a donor, please share your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/giving\/why-im-grateful\">\u201cWhy I’m Grateful – Why I Give\u201d<\/a> stories <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/giving\/why-i-give\/\">on our website<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/kalamazoocollege\">Facebook page<\/a>, where you can also learn more about Grateful for K Day.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11490"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11502,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490\/revisions\/11502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11490"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=11490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}