{"id":1667,"date":"2019-02-27T12:04:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T17:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2019-03-01T12:08:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T17:08:12","slug":"detroit-mercy-vs-ou-donor-challenge-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2019\/02\/27\/detroit-mercy-vs-ou-donor-challenge-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Mercy vs. OU donor challenge results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1669 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2019\/02\/Tommy-and-Grizz-281x300.jpg?resize=281%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tommy Titan and Grizz\" width=\"281\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>The good news: More than 900 people made donations to University of Detroit Mercy from Feb. 11-15 as part of the fourth annual Donor Challenge against Oakland University.<\/p>\n<p>The not-so-good news: It wasn\u2019t enough to keep Tommy Titan from wearing OU mascot Grizz\u2019s jersey Saturday at the men\u2019s basketball game between the two schools.<\/p>\n<p>OU\u2019s 1,186 supporters edged out Detroit Mercy\u2019s 934 donors to win this year\u2019s Donor Challenge, bringing the record to two wins for each University over the four-year run of the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDetroit Mercy supporters earmarked their donations to many different areas including scholarships, facilities improvements and programming,\u201d said Judy Wernette, executive director of annual giving programs. \u201cThat means the students are the real winners here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By the way, feel free to give even though the challenge is over by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/community.udmercy.edu\/donate\">udmercy.edu\/donate<\/a>. Every donation, no matter the size, helps.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013Original story written by MarCom Communications Specialist Ron Bernas in our <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/\">alumni blog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news: More than 900 people made donations to University of Detroit Mercy from Feb. 11-15 as part of the fourth annual Donor Challenge &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[362,403,900,1023,363,683,682,714,1024,451,716,713],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-qT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1670,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/1670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}