{"id":1357,"date":"2016-03-30T13:04:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T18:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2018-11-14T11:52:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T17:52:43","slug":"sam-porritt-84-mark-ballard-83-marty-smith-vp-of-advancement-at-iwu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/2016\/03\/30\/sam-porritt-84-mark-ballard-83-marty-smith-vp-of-advancement-at-iwu\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Porritt ’84, Mark Ballard ’83, Marty Smith (VP of Advancement at IWU)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Porritt, ’84,\u00a0 is the founder of a nonprofit organization called Falling Forward Foundation.\u00a0 He began in 2013 and has been operating in three states (Colorado, Missouri and Kansas).<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Falling Forward announced their expansion to Illinois.
\nFYI, Falling Forward has deep roots in Illinois (four Board members as well as our Director of Marketing) and strong ties to Illinois Wesleyan.\u00a0 Mark Ballard, a 1983 IWU alum, is Treasurer of our Board, and Marty Smith, VP for Advancement at IWU, is Vice-Chairman of our Board.
\nHere’s the link to the press release:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/media.wix.com\/ugd\/762118_7470e1f60d5c48509c96512694a0efa1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s the direct link to the website:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.fallingforward.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Please help us spread the word through social media:
\nFacebook\u00a0 https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fallingforwardfoundation<\/a>
\nTwitter\u00a0 https:\/\/twitter.com\/Falling_Fwd<\/a>
\nInstagram:\u00a0 falling_fwd<\/p>\n

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Sam Porritt, ’84,\u00a0 is the founder of a nonprofit organization called Falling Forward Foundation.\u00a0 He began in 2013 and has been operating in three states (Colorado, Missouri and Kansas). Yesterday, Falling Forward announced their expansion to Illinois. FYI, Falling Forward … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"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":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}