{"id":4507,"date":"2017-01-16T14:19:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T18:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/?p=4507"},"modified":"2017-01-16T14:21:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T18:21:35","slug":"new-york-cares-coat-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/2017\/01\/16\/new-york-cares-coat-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Cares Coat Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.fitnyc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/New-York-Cares-Coat-Drive_banner-2-600x259.jpg\" alt=\"New-York-Cares-Coat-Drive_banner-2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Starting in November, FIT was working in conjunction with the nonprofit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkcares.org\/\">New York Cares<\/a>\u00a0on its\u00a0annual Coat Drive\u00a0leading up to the new year.\u00a0The organization\u2019s\u00a0city-wide effort aims to collect 125,000 coats each year and distribute them to New Yorkers who need them most in the colder months. The Coat Drive has been running for 27 years, having collected and distributed 1.7 million winter coats to date. Boxes were\u00a0placed in all building lobbies where members of the community could drop off donations.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Department of Public Safety partnered with New York Cares to initiate FIT\u2019s\u00a0first-ever\u00a0coat drive to help homeless New Yorkers. The college\u2019s\u00a0drive was\u00a0from November\u00a020th to December 20th. The department is\u00a0proud to report that a total of 104 coats were\u00a0donated to the New York Cares distribution center on behalf of FIT.<\/p>\n<p>Great participation, FIT! For more information about New York Cares and how to get involved,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkcares.org\/coat-drive\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meli B<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting in November, FIT was working in conjunction with the nonprofit\u00a0New York Cares\u00a0on its\u00a0annual Coat Drive\u00a0leading up to the new year.\u00a0The organization\u2019s\u00a0city-wide effort aims to collect 125,000 coats each year and distribute them to New Yorkers who need them most in the colder months. The Coat Drive has been running for 27 years, having collected &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/2017\/01\/16\/new-york-cares-coat-drive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New York Cares Coat Drive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":529,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[133,31161,31164,41182,48522],"tags":[35261,42,48522,52001,145],"class_list":["post-4507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers","category-campus-life","category-events-in-nyc","category-fyi","category-melinda","tag-blogger","tag-fit","tag-melinda","tag-new-york-cares","tag-nyc","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3StnM-1aH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}