{"id":49882,"date":"2017-12-13T12:39:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T19:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=49882"},"modified":"2017-12-15T13:15:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T20:15:21","slug":"santas-sleigh-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/santas-sleigh-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa\u2019s Sleigh fund helps NAU employees in need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately 25 years ago, the Santa\u2019s Sleigh fund at Northern Arizona University began with the hope of providing a small, one-time monetary boost to full-time NAU employees. This fund has assisted employees with severe financial hardships or personal tragedies by providing a holiday meal and gifts to their children.<\/p>\n<p>NAU employees have donated to the Santa Sleigh fund as it continues to care for and provide warmth to NAU employees. The fund has handed out more than $47,000 in almost 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Employees interested in donations to Santa\u2019s Sleigh fund (#4936) can donate through the NAU Foundation. The foundation, located on the third floor in Old Main, accepts cash, checks or payroll deduction. <strong>Don Dufek<\/strong> at Fleet Services, who is an administrator of the fund, also will accept donations.<\/p>\n<p>For more details on donations or a suggestion for a potential recipient contact Dufek at (928) 523-3232 or <a href=\"mailto:Patrick.dufek@nau.edu\">Patrick.dufek@nau.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/santas-sleigh-fund\/\">Approximately 25 years ago, the Santa\u2019s Sleigh fund at Northern Arizona University began with the hope of providing a small, one-time monetary boost to full-time NAU employees. This fund has assisted employees with severe financial hardships or personal tragedies by providing a holiday meal and gifts to their children. NAU employees have donated to the&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}