{"id":2469,"date":"2013-05-22T12:44:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T16:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=2469"},"modified":"2022-03-24T14:14:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T18:14:31","slug":"dogl-gets-more-gracious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/dogl-gets-more-gracious\/","title":{"rendered":"DOGL Gets More Gracious"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2470\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2470\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2470\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/05\/inda-Jackson-Photo-tight-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"163\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linda Jackson \u201982<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kalamazoo College students typically celebrate the Day of Gracious Living (DOGL) at the beach. This year, many young alumni commemorated gracious living with gracious <em>giving<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, May 15, alumni from the Classes of 2002 through 2012 contributed through the Kalamazoo College Fund as part of the first DOGL Challenge, a one-day giving opportunity just for K\u2019s young alumni. <strong>Linda Jackson \u201982<\/strong> challenged K\u2019s young alumni to make a gift on DOGL by pledging to match all gifts dollar-for-dollar, up to $2,500. The goal: raise $5,000 for K in a single day.<\/p>\n<p>Then, something unexpected happened on the morning of DOGL: young alumni gave at a surprising rate. Before noon they had exceeded the $2,500 match. Jackson was so pleased with the response that she increased her challenge to $5,000.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the day, 178 young alumni had made a gift through the DOGL Challenge, contributing a total of $8,124. With Jackson\u2019s $5,000 match, the DOGL Challenge generated more $13,000 for K in 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Now that\u2019s a day of gracious giving!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalamazoo College students typically celebrate the Day of Gracious Living (DOGL) at the beach. This year, many young alumni commemorated gracious living with gracious giving. 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This year, many young alumni commemorated gracious living with gracious <em>giving<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, May 15, alumni from the Classes of 2002 through 2012 contributed through the Kalamazoo College Fund as part of the first DOGL Challenge, a one-day giving opportunity just for K\u2019s young alumni. <strong>Linda Jackson \u201982<\/strong> challenged K\u2019s young alumni to make a gift on DOGL by pledging to match all gifts dollar-for-dollar, up to $2,500. The goal: raise $5,000 for K in a single day.<\/p>\n<p>Then, something unexpected happened on the morning of DOGL: young alumni gave at a surprising rate. Before noon they had exceeded the $2,500 match. Jackson was so pleased with the response that she increased her challenge to $5,000.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the day, 178 young alumni had made a gift through the DOGL Challenge, contributing a total of $8,124. With Jackson\u2019s $5,000 match, the DOGL Challenge generated more $13,000 for K in 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Now that\u2019s a day of gracious giving!<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2469"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16227,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions\/16227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2469"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=2469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}