{"id":41324,"date":"2013-01-26T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=41324"},"modified":"2013-01-26T08:00:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T13:00:53","slug":"friends-of-the-zoo-fulfills-1-million-commitment-to-onondaga-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=41324","title":{"rendered":"Friends of the Zoo Fulfills $1 Million Commitment to Onondaga County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Syracuse, NY \u2013 Jan. 24, 2013) \u00a0Friends of the Zoo announced that the organization made its fifth and final payment to Onondaga County in the amount of $221,588 to fulfill its $1 million commitment to the Parks for Tomorrow II initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Through its capital campaign,\u00a0Conserving What We Love: The Campaign for Elephants and Primates, Friends of the Zoo raised $1,730,771\u00a0to\u00a0support construction of Asian Elephant Preserve, Primate Park and Gatherings, as well as several important educational components and exhibit enhancements that were not included in the original budget for the projects and renovations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was the community\u2019s campaign,\u201d said Janet Agostini, president of Friends of the Zoo. \u201cMore than 350 individuals, foundations, corporations and small businesses contributed, helping us complete projects that are an important foundation for the continued growth of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Syracuse, NY \u2013 Jan. 24, 2013) \u00a0Friends of the Zoo announced that the organization made its fifth and final payment to Onondaga County in the amount of $221,588 to fulfill its $1 million commitment to the Parks for Tomorrow II initiative. Through its capital campaign,\u00a0Conserving What We Love: The Campaign for Elephants and Primates, Friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}