{"id":98918,"date":"2018-07-02T13:47:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T19:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/with-fundraising-complete-fort-lewis-college-set-to-buy-rafting-company\/"},"modified":"2018-07-02T13:47:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T19:47:39","slug":"with-fundraising-complete-fort-lewis-college-set-to-buy-rafting-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/with-fundraising-complete-fort-lewis-college-set-to-buy-rafting-company\/","title":{"rendered":"With fundraising complete, Fort Lewis College set to buy rafting company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2ccc02d8-dac4-46f6-b931-7d9642a4dc6f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2ccc02d8-dac4-46f6-b931-7d9642a4dc6f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2ccc02d8-dac4-46f6-b931-7d9642a4dc6f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2ccc02d8-dac4-46f6-b931-7d9642a4dc6f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1542\" height=\"943\" alt=\"The Fort Lewis College Foundation has successfully completed a fundraising effort to raise $100,000 in private donations to purchase a rafting company in New Mexico.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Fort Lewis College Foundation has successfully completed a fundraising effort to raise $100,000 in private donations to purchase a rafting company in New Mexico.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Fort Lewis College students, faculty and staff soon will have access to rafting permits on the Rio Chama and San Juan rivers in New Mexico and the Salt River in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortlewis.edu\/foundation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Fort Lewis College Foundation<\/a>, a nonprofit that raises funds for the college, conducted the campaign to raise private funds to purchase a New Mexico-based river company. The foundation announced it exceeded its goal of $100,000 for the purchase.<\/p>\n<p>Final donations came in at $115,000, including a $25,000 crowdfunding effort.<\/p>\n<p>With fundraising complete, FLC officials will now move forward on negotiations to complete the purchase of the river company.<\/p>\n<p>FLC will not operate a commercial enterprise. Instead, the college will gain ownership of the firm\u2019s river permits and equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is about creating unique opportunities and to expand our access so that we can fully integrate our location\u2019s amazing offerings into our academic curriculum and student-life programs, which helps with recruitment and retention,\u201d Vice President of Advancement Mark Jastorff said when the idea was first announced in early June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea of having a resource that would integrate into majors from across campus, and that provides additional chances for our students to fully appreciate what the Southwest has to offer, would make Fort Lewis College a stronger choice to live and learn,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:parmijo@durangoherald.com\">parmijo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purchase would give school access to river permits in Arizona and New Mexico<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[132,1799],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-98918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-fort-lewis-college","tag-rafting"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98918"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=98918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}