{"id":58183,"date":"2014-09-29T19:25:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T23:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=58183"},"modified":"2014-09-29T18:36:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T22:36:12","slug":"north-broad-elementary-receives-40000-from-dollar-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=58183","title":{"rendered":"North Broad Elementary Receives $40,000 from Dollar General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Dollar-General.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-58184\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Dollar-General.jpg\" alt=\"Dollar General\" width=\"326\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Dollar-General.jpg 326w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Dollar-General-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Dollar-General-150x71.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Retailer provides funds to support school reading and literacy programs<\/p>\n<p>(Oneida, NY \u2013 Sept. 29, 2014) Dollar General arrived at North Broad Street Elementary School \u00a0this morning ready to start a revolution. Company representatives carried a yellow and black box with a very special gift inside. When school leaders opened the box in front of a classroom of curious students, they were surprised and elated to find a check for\u00a0$40,000.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDollar General is very passionate about its mission of\u00a0Serving Others\u00a0and we are all excited to surprise North Broad Street Elementary School with a donation to further their reading and literacy programs,\u201d said Heather Abernathy, Dollar General\u2019s Regional Director. \u201cWe hope this donation will help equip the school with the tools and resources it needs to improve the learning experience for students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The donation from Dollar General is part of its new\u00a0Reading Revolution\u00a0program. The program aims to provide schools with additional resources to purchase books, computers and other educational supplies to enhance their reading and literacy programs.<\/p>\n<p>North Broad Street Elementary was chosen due to its close proximity to Dollar General\u2019s store #9723 that is one of the company\u2019s largest contributors to the Dollar General Literacy Foundation through its Cash Cube program. Dollar General plans to make donations to additional schools through its\u00a0Reading Revolution\u00a0program in various locations where it has a strong presence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy supporting North Broad Elementary School with this gift, we hope to help students become better readers, more successful students and lifelong learners,\u201d said Denine Torr, Dollar General\u2019s director of community initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retailer provides funds to support school reading and literacy programs (Oneida, NY \u2013 Sept. 29, 2014) Dollar General arrived at North Broad Street Elementary School \u00a0this morning ready to start a revolution. Company representatives carried a yellow and black box with a very special gift inside. When school leaders opened the box in front of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58183","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=58183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}