{"id":351,"date":"2014-01-21T14:32:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T20:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/?p=351"},"modified":"2014-01-21T14:32:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T20:32:29","slug":"dare-to-love-sweetheart-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/blog\/2014\/01\/21\/dare-to-love-sweetheart-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"DARE to Love &#8211; Sweetheart Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DARE-to-Love-Invite-Flyer1.pdf\">DARE to Love Invite Flyer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you know that Minnesota D.A.R.E. programming still instructs over <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">74,000 students, statewide<\/span>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you know that we are not government or United Way funded?\u00a0 We rely on the generous contributions of our donors, statewide.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is Minnesota D.A.R.E.\u00a0 Inc\u2019s 23<sup>rd<\/sup> year of advocating and educating for safe and healthy children.\u00a0 We thank you for helping us reach millions of students over the years. <strong><em>You can help out, again, this year by attending an event, sponsoring an event, and\/or making a cash contribution or in-kind donation.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s campaign is:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>\u201cDARE to Express Yourself\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We will be talking to our Minnesota students about healthy and safe ways they can express ourselves.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">To kick off this year\u2019s campaign, Minnesota D.A.R.E., Inc.\u2019s Board of Directors will be hosting the DARE to Love \u2013 Sweetheart Ball on February 8, 2014.\u00a0 We want to show our children that we care about them by coming out and supporting their programming.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This year, we will continue to expand our programming to address current health and safety issues that are impacting our Minnesota young people.\u00a0 Tough issues like <strong>school violence &amp; safety<\/strong>; bullying and cyberbullying; Internet Safety; <strong>mental health issues<\/strong>; and drug, tobacco, and alcohol abuse continue to top our agenda.\u00a0 We have to do what it takes to keep our children safe!<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We need parents, educators, communities, foundations, businesses, and companies to join together for the sake of our children.\u00a0 They deserve the opportunity to feel safe and loved.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for helping us to\u00a0protect and serve our Minnesota children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/2014\/01\/21\/dare-to-love-sweetheart-ball\/\">http:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/2014\/01\/21\/dare-to-love-sweetheart-ball\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARE to Love Invite Flyer Did you know that Minnesota D.A.R.E. programming still instructs over 74,000 students, statewide? Did you know that we are not government or United Way funded?\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}