{"id":85707,"date":"2020-01-22T09:25:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T15:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=85707"},"modified":"2020-01-22T09:26:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T15:26:29","slug":"deadline-to-submit-spring-for-success-microgrant-proposals-extended-to-jan-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2020\/01\/deadline-to-submit-spring-for-success-microgrant-proposals-extended-to-jan-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline to Submit Spring for Success Microgrant Proposals Extended to Jan. 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline to submit entries for upcoming Spring for Success microgrants has been extended until Jan. 31.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Delta State University students, faculty, and staff with a project that needs funding and that benefits Delta State are encouraged to submit a proposal for Delta State University Foundation\u2019s second annual Spring for Success online giving day.<\/p>\n<p>Any topic will be accepted for consideration, so long as it will somehow make a positive impact on DSU.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a worthwhile project that will cost up to $5,000 to complete, submit a simple proposal of one page or less to James Forte\u2019, annual fund director, via email at <a href=\"mailto:jforte@deltastate.edu\">jforte@deltastate.edu<\/a> by <strong><u>5 PM<\/u><\/strong><u> <strong>on Jan. 31<\/strong><\/u><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Three projects will be chosen for funding based on the attached guidelines. <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>When the three winning proposals will be announced: the week of Feb. 3.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>The second annual Spring for Success online giving day will be held on March 19.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What could the proposals be? Last year, the three projects chosen for sponsorship came from Athletics, which replaced the Statesman mascot suit; the Social Work Department, which replaced equipment for a <strong>Virtual Dementia Tour\u00ae<\/strong><strong>;<\/strong> and the University Police, which replaced its bulletproof vests.<\/p>\n<p>Funding for year two remains the same as from year one. Each sponsored project will be expected to raise $2,500, with help from Communications and Marketing. Each sponsored project that does so will get that $2,500 matched by the DSU Foundation\u2014so have $5,000 to spend. And the project that raises the most money will receive an additional $1,000\u2014meaning $6,000 total.<\/p>\n<p>(Additional money raised beyond the $2,500 for each project will go to the General Scholarship Fund.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline to submit entries for upcoming Spring for Success microgrants has been extended until Jan. 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":85528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,93,246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-facultystaff","category-foundation","category-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85709,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85707\/revisions\/85709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}