{"id":12,"date":"2016-10-06T13:55:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T13:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2016-10-06T13:55:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T13:55:40","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/?page_id=12","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>ABOUT THE SIU FOUNDATION<\/h1>\n<h2>MISSION AND PURPOSE<\/h2>\n<p>The Southern Illinois University Foundation, established in 1942, provides alumni and other friends a means to invest in the future of their University.<\/p>\n<p>Our mission is to maximize private support for Southern Illinois University Carbondale to assist the University in achieving its long-range goals. The SIU Foundation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>solicits and accepts gifts<\/li>\n<li>manages and invests funds and property prudently<\/li>\n<li>distributes funds and property for educational and charitable purposes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The SIU Foundation is an independent, nonprofit corporation that exists solely to serve the educational, service and research missions of SIU Carbondale.\u00a0 It is a designated 501(c)(3) organization.\u00a0 The Foundation has appropriate approval from the Internal Revenue Service to issue tax deductible receipts for private gifts received to support Southern Illinois University Carbondale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABOUT THE SIU FOUNDATION MISSION AND PURPOSE The Southern Illinois University Foundation, established in 1942, provides alumni and other friends a means to invest in the future of their University. Our mission is to maximize private support for Southern Illinois University Carbondale to assist the University in achieving its long-range goals. The SIU Foundation: solicits &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/?page_id=12\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Us<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}