{"id":4920,"date":"2019-11-04T17:30:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T23:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4920"},"modified":"2019-11-04T17:30:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T23:30:39","slug":"updike-society-receives-american-family-insurance-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/11\/04\/updike-society-receives-american-family-insurance-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike Society receives American Family Insurance award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-adtags-visited=\"true\">Because of their work preserving The John Updike Childhood Home and turning it into a museum, The John Updike Society was chosen as one of 100 nonprofit organizations to receive a $2500 donation from American Family Insurance and the <strong>American Family Insurance Dreams Foundation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-adtags-visited=\"true\">\u201cWe selected 100 organizations across the country in support of causes important to those who matter most to us\u2014our customers,\u201d the American Family Insurance Dreams Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amfam.com\/about\/givingback\/community-investment\">website<\/a> stated.<\/p>\n<p data-adtags-visited=\"true\">Nearly 10,000 nonprofit organizations were nominated by American Family Insurance customers, and the Updike Society\u2019s work with the Childhood Home stood out as a project worthy of support. The John Updike Society was nominated by a customer of American Family insurance agent John Blumenshine. American Family Insurance is based in Madison, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p data-adtags-visited=\"true\">Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amfam.com\/-\/media\/pdfs\/2019_communityofdreamers_recipients_final.pdf?la=en\">list<\/a> of the 100 recipients for 2019.<\/p>\n<p data-adtags-visited=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/11\/polaroid_collage2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4921\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/11\/polaroid_collage2-1024x432.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/11\/polaroid_collage2-1024x432.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/11\/polaroid_collage2-500x211.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/11\/polaroid_collage2-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/11\/polaroid_collage2-768x324.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/11\/polaroid_collage2.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of their work preserving The John Updike Childhood Home and turning it into a museum, The John Updike Society was chosen as one of 100 nonprofit organizations to receive a $2500 donation from American Family Insurance and the American &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/11\/04\/updike-society-receives-american-family-insurance-award\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,57,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-donations","category-the-john-updike-childhood-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4922,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions\/4922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}