{"id":37149,"date":"2015-11-24T16:56:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T16:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=37149"},"modified":"2015-12-04T14:48:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T14:48:01","slug":"acc-students-collect-7000-books-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/11\/24\/acc-students-collect-7000-books-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC students collect 7,000 books for children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>Holiday book drive benefits Travis County Sheriff\u2019s Brown Santa Program<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Austin Community College will present more than 7,000 children\u2019s books to the Travis County Sheriff\u2019s Office for its Brown Santa program at 10 a.m. Thursday, December 3, at the Highland Campus social staircase (6101 Airport Blvd.).<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the college\u2019s Student Government Association (SGA), the drive benefits children of low-income families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a responsibility to help those who are less fortunate,\u201d says Ali Judice, ACC SGA president. \u201cThe greatest feeling in the world is making a difference in someone\u2019s life. Reading is one of the most enriching activities we can provide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since its inception, the college\u2019s annual holiday book drive has collected more than 14,500 books for TCSO\u2019s Brown Santa program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t take bags of toys to make a difference. These donations are much more valuable,\u201d says TCSO Sheriff Greg Hamilton. \u201cBooks feed young minds. We are grateful for the generosity of the ACC community for coming together to make this a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year, partners include ACC\u2019s Phi Theta Kappa and Kappa Delta Pi chapters, the ACC Faculty Senate and Classified Employees Association, along with the ACC Latino\/Latin American Studies Center, and BookSpring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holiday book drive benefits Travis County Sheriff\u2019s Brown Santa Program Austin Community College will present more than 7,000 children\u2019s books to the Travis County Sheriff\u2019s Office for its Brown Santa program at 10 a.m. Thursday, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/11\/24\/acc-students-collect-7000-books-for-children\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3556,"featured_media":37046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,15,17,18,19],"tags":[612,630,493,631],"class_list":["post-37149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-community","category-current-students","category-facstaff-news","category-news-and-announcements","category-official-acc-press-releases","category-students-and-alumni","tag-brown-santa","tag-holiday-book-drive","tag-sga","tag-tcso"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}