{"id":1911,"date":"2018-03-08T14:27:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T19:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2018-03-08T14:27:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T19:27:49","slug":"grants-available-to-fund-college-signing-day-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/08\/grants-available-to-fund-college-signing-day-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Grants Available to Fund College Signing Day Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1912\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1912\" style=\"width: 724px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/signingday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1912\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/signingday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/signingday.jpg 724w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/signingday-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Decision Day is just a few weeks away for hundreds of thousands of college-bound high school seniors.<\/p>\n<p>May 1\u2014also called National College Decision Day\u2014is the deadline for students to accept an offer of admission and make a tuition deposit at many institutions.<\/p>\n<p>And for the fifth year, Reach Higher\u2014in coordination with Better Make Room\u2014is encouraging schools and communities to host College Signing Day events in recognition of their students\u2019 hard work.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Planning a celebration? Reach Higher is giving away $100,000 in microgrants to help public school educators organize Signing Day events for their schools.<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible for a grant of up to $500, you must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bettermakeroom.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=1053950be7a8052cd1e21f9fa&amp;id=fa1b658644&amp;e=6f06e9ffe6\">register your event<\/a><\/li>\n<li>create a College Signing Day project on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bettermakeroom.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=1053950be7a8052cd1e21f9fa&amp;id=12f53abe05&amp;e=6f06e9ffe6\">DonorsChoose.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:reachhigher@civicnation.org\">send Reach Higher an email<\/a> with the link to your DonorsChoose.org project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettermakeroom.org\/college-signing-day\/\">Learn more<\/a> and download a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettermakeroom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/CSD-2018-Toolkit-.pdf\">College Signing Day toolkit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\" href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/06\/learn-more-about-student-activism-and-the-admission-process\/mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision Day is just a few weeks away for hundreds of thousands of college-bound high school seniors. May 1\u2014also called National College Decision Day\u2014is the deadline for students to accept an offer of admission and make a tuition deposit at many institutions. And for the fifth year, Reach Higher\u2014in coordination with Better Make Room\u2014is encouraging &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/08\/grants-available-to-fund-college-signing-day-events\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grants Available to Fund College Signing Day Events<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[230,300,384,385,122],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-admission","tag-better-make-room","tag-college-signing-day","tag-may-1","tag-national-college-decision-day","tag-reach-higher"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-uP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}