{"id":1941,"date":"2016-02-13T17:51:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T23:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austinastro.org\/?p=1941"},"modified":"2016-02-15T22:36:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T04:36:21","slug":"aas-and-amplifyaustin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/2016\/02\/13\/aas-and-amplifyaustin\/","title":{"rendered":"AAS and AmplifyAustin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ICYMI: Austin Astronomical Society is participating in AmplifyAustin &#8211; a season of giving and a single-day fundraising event to <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2037 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/austinastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/amplifytransparent.png\" alt=\"amplifytransparent\" width=\"245\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/amplifytransparent.png 245w, https:\/\/austinastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/amplifytransparent-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/>support hundreds of non-profits around the city of Austin. Amplify Austin is the premier regional fundraising day for nonprofits, and it provides deserving organizations the opportunity to get in front of the public and make their case for contributions from individual donors. Since this is AAS&#8217; first year of participation, we have set a low, but at<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">tainable, fundraising target of $500.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Amplify gives AAS the opportunity to have its name, mission and website seen by thousands of residents who may never have heard of our organization. The process of locating, gathering and assembling our documentation for participation in the event gave us practice for future donations, grants and even for the preparation of a future board manual. Lastly, our AAS budget consists almost entirely of funds from memberships, small donations from individuals and funds from auctions, RASC book sales, etc. Fundraising of this type gives us the opportunity to diversify our revenue without having to increase the size of our membership.<\/p>\n<p>Do visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/amplifyatx.ilivehereigivehere.org\/AustinAstronomicalSociety\/overview\" target=\"_blank\">AAS AmplifyAustin site<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICYMI: Austin Astronomical Society is participating in AmplifyAustin &#8211; a season of giving and a single-day fundraising event to support hundreds of non-profits around the city of Austin. Amplify Austin is the premier regional fundraising day for nonprofits, and it provides deserving organizations the opportunity to get in front of the public and make their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,11,10,9],"class_list":["post-1941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default","tag-amplify-austin","tag-development","tag-fundraising","tag-ga-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}