{"id":11028,"date":"2021-02-22T20:04:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T20:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=11028"},"modified":"2021-03-01T14:04:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T14:04:04","slug":"supply-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2021\/02\/22\/supply-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedar-Riverside supply drives support neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic, combined with the damage some businesses experienced following the murder of George Floyd, put a strain on Augsburg\u2019s Twin Cities community as many local stores temporarily closed and access to public transportation was reduced. In June and August, Â̲èÖ±²¥ organized supply drives in partnership with the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers in more than 550 cars participated in the supply drives, and their donations were delivered to the <a href=\"https:\/\/pillsburyunited.org\/site\/brian-coyle\/\">Brian Coyle Center<\/a> through several dozen trips.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is our community; this is our neighborhood,\u201d one volunteer said. \u201cSo when our neighbors are hurting, we step forward and do what we can to help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more about Auggies\u2019 efforts to support the community: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2021\/02\/22\/fight-a-pandemic-part-1\/\">What it takes to fight a pandemic.<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Augsburg\u2019s supply drive was a success! Thank you to all who donated and volunteered to help out our so loved Cedar-Riverside community. It is in times like these where we must all come together as the thoughtful stewards that we are. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AuggiePride?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AuggiePride<\/a> &#x2764;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uevNAZwfy2\">pic.twitter.com\/uevNAZwfy2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Â̲èÖ±²¥ (@AugsburgU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AugsburgU\/status\/1267574601875423233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Top image: <\/em>Auggies collected donations for the Twin Cities community in Summer 2020. <em>(Photo by Joe Mann)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic, combined with the damage some businesses experienced following the murder of George Floyd, put a strain on Augsburg\u2019s Twin Cities community as many local stores temporarily closed and access to public transportation was reduced. In June and August, Â̲èÖ±²¥ organized supply drives in partnership with the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. Drivers in more <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":11029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[94,95,105],"class_list":["post-11028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-community-engagement","tag-diversity-and-inclusion","tag-winter-2020-21"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11028"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11031,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11028\/revisions\/11031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}