{"id":153,"date":"2016-12-13T21:49:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T21:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umichpave.x10host.com\/?page_id=153"},"modified":"2025-01-21T19:25:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T19:25:43","slug":"funders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/funders\/","title":{"rendered":"Funders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Initial funding for the design and piloting of PAVE was provided by the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/donate.mccormickfoundation.org\/wbv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Welcome Back Veterans Initiative<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>which includes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccormickfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Robert R. McCormick Foundation<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mlbcommunity.org\/programs\/mlb_charities.jsp?content=info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Major League Baseball Charities<\/strong><\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bms.com\/foundation\/Pages\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation<\/strong> <strong>(BMSF)<\/strong><\/a> provided the funding to develop and launch PAVE on a national scale.\u00a0Grants from the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/smithct.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May &amp; Stanley Smith Charitable Trust<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/donate.mccormickfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert R. McCormick Foundation<\/a><\/strong> enabled PAVE to expand to additional schools in the Western U.S. and Illinois in 2020 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We are honored to be the recipient of this support. Most importantly, we gratefully acknowledge the men and women serving our country abroad and at home for their service, commitment, and sacrifices.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bms.com\/foundation\/Pages\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/Welcome-Back-Veterans-Logo_313_pw-300x120.png\" alt=\"Welcome-Back-Veterans-Logo_313_pw\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"120\" width=\"300\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bms.com\/about-us\/responsibility\/bristol-myers-squibb-foundation.html\" target=\"_blank\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/bms-rebrand-logo.png\" alt=\"Image of the Bristol Myers Squibb logo\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"33\" width=\"239\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/smithct.org\/\" target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/MayStanleySmith-1024x247.png\" alt=\"Logo for the May &amp; Stanley Smith Charitable Trust\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"188\" width=\"780\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/donate.mccormickfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/McCormick-Foundation-logo-300x87.png\" alt=\"Logo for the Robert R. McCormick Foundation\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"87\" width=\"300\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initial funding for the design and piloting of PAVE was provided by the Welcome Back Veterans Initiative,\u00a0which includes the Robert R. McCormick Foundation and Major League Baseball Charities. The Bristol <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/funders\/\">&#8230; Learn More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153\/revisions\/2333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}