{"id":3172,"date":"2016-10-06T14:58:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2016-10-06T14:58:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:58:05","slug":"sigma-kappa-sorority-named-the-top-fundraising-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/2016\/10\/06\/sigma-kappa-sorority-named-the-top-fundraising-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigma Kappa Sorority Named the Top Fundraising Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bradley University\u2019s own Sigma Kappa sorority has been named the top fundraising team of the year for the walk to end Alzheimer\u2019s in central Illinois. Every fall members of the sigma kappa sorority participate in the Peoria walk to end Alzheimer\u2019s in an effort to support their national philanthropy, the Alzheimer\u2019s association. The Peoria walk event that the girls participate in each year is the nation&#8217;s largest event to help raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer\u2019s research. Last year, the sorority just fell short of their goal. This year however, the team surpassed their goal of $12,000 by raising nearly $16,000 for Alzheimer\u2019s research. Sigma kappa has been working to help raise awareness and fundraising for the organization for over 60 years and have granted them more than $1 million in research and grants working to fight the disease. The walk was held this past Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bradley University\u2019s own Sigma Kappa sorority has been named the top fundraising team of the year for the walk to end Alzheimer\u2019s in central Illinois. Every fall members of the sigma kappa sorority participate in the Peoria walk to end Alzheimer\u2019s in an effort to support their national philanthropy, the Alzheimer\u2019s association. The Peoria walk [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3173,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions\/3173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}