{"id":1338,"date":"2020-05-11T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2023-02-12T20:13:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T20:13:55","slug":"fairwinds-foundation-awards-23651-grant-to-stetson-university%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/2020\/05\/11\/fairwinds-foundation-awards-23651-grant-to-stetson-university%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairwinds Foundation Awards $23,651 Grant To Stetson University\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Fairwinds-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42916\"\/><figcaption>The Fairwinds Foundation presents the grant to Stetson University on March 3 in Orlando to, holding the check, left to right, Tim Stiles, executive director for Career and Professional Development; Board of Trustees Vice Chair Steve Alexander \u201985 B.BA; and Jeff Ulmer, vice president of Development and Alumni Engagement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fairwinds Foundation presented Stetson University with a $23,651 grant that will help provide 30 students with career training and mentoring in order to successfully secure an internship or job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The grant matches a $23,651 grant from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund for Stetson\u2019s EDGE 2020 program, which \u201cfocuses on accelerating social capital and success for 30 students with limited incomes,\u201d said Tim Stiles, executive director of Career and Professional Development at Stetson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The EDGE program is open to first-year students through seniors. It will begin May 6-8 with a three-day \u201cOrlando Bound\u201d excursion that will include meeting with various employers, attending networking events, and receiving online and in-person financial literacy training and development.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe program will continue with one-on-one and small group mentoring for eight to 12 months \u2014 until every participant uses their training and contacts to successfully secure an internship or job,\u201d Stiles said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are interested in applying for the program, contact Career and Professional Development at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:career@stetson.edu\">career@stetson.edu<\/a>&nbsp;or 386-822-7315.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>-Stetson Today<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/today\/2020\/03\/fairwinds-foundation-awards-23651-grant-to-stetson-university\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/today\/2020\/03\/fairwinds-foundation-awards-23651-grant-to-stetson-university\/\">original post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fairwinds Foundation presented Stetson University with a $23,651 grant that will help provide 30 students with career training and mentoring in order to successfully secure an internship or job. The grant matches a $23,651 grant from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund for Stetson\u2019s EDGE 2020 program, which \u201cfocuses on accelerating social capital and success [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-accomplishments","category-faculty-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}