{"id":8978,"date":"2018-11-19T16:57:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T16:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=8978"},"modified":"2018-11-19T16:57:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T16:57:14","slug":"minnesota-urban-debate-league-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2018\/11\/19\/minnesota-urban-debate-league-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Urban Debate League receives renewed support from three area foundations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/urbandebateleague\/\">Minnesota Urban Debate League<\/a>, a program of Augsburg University, entered the 2018\u201319 school year with a full head of steam thanks to funding and partnership support from three Twin Cities grantmakers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With a <strong>$25,000 grant from the Women\u2019s Foundation of Minnesota<\/strong>, MNUDL will launch a program centered on building financial literacy skills. Young women will learn financial concepts using the format of academic debate, which breaks down abstract concepts and makes them more relevant. Funds from this grant also will offer a cohort of women and gender-nonconforming students the opportunity to attend The Advocacy Unit, an advocacy skills training summer camp that takes place on Augsburg\u2019s campus.<\/li>\n<li>MNUDL will reach even more students in St. Paul Public Schools using a <strong>$40,000 grant from the St. Paul Foundation<\/strong>. MNUDL will add four middle school programs over the next two years. Funds also will make it possible for MNUDL to expand culturally specific debate programs for Spanish-speaking and Somali students.<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>$40,000 grant from the Otto Bremer Foundation<\/strong> will provide general operating support, helping MNUDL expand a variety of priorities, including increasing summer camp opportunities for middle and high school students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Urban Debate League, a program of Augsburg University, entered the 2018\u201319 school year with a full head of steam thanks to funding and partnership support from three Twin Cities grantmakers. With a $25,000 grant from the Women\u2019s Foundation of Minnesota, MNUDL will launch a program centered on building financial literacy skills. Young women <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":9041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-8978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-fall-winter-2018"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8978","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8978"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9039,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8978\/revisions\/9039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}