{"id":11558,"date":"2016-02-10T18:51:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T02:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/?p=11558"},"modified":"2016-04-22T19:09:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T02:09:06","slug":"legislative-advocate-scholarship-program-umcgc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/legislative-advocate-scholarship-program-umcgc\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Advocate Scholarship Program #UMCGC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyncoalition.org\" target=\"_blank\">Love Your Neighbor Coalition<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umoi.org\" target=\"_blank\">Oregon-Idaho Conference of The United Methodist Church<\/a> with generous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umoi.org\/newsdetail\/the-collins-foundation-grant-supports-leadership-and-inclusion-3807097\" target=\"_blank\">support from The Collins Foundation<\/a> are excited to provide Leadership Development Scholarships for General Conference 2016 when it meets May 10-12 in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>Scholarship recipients are paired with seasoned legislative advocates who have already been trained and are well-versed in the workings of General Conference. Applicants need to commit to being in Portland May 8-20, participating in advance reading and telephone conferences, and following the guidance of the legislative coordinators. The scholarship will provide funding for travel and lodging for the young adult advocates.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen recipients in total will be selected, with at least six of those recipients coming from the Oregon-Idaho Conference. Learn more on the LYN Coalition website or by contacting Chett Pritchett, <a href=\"http:\/\/mfsaweb.org\" target=\"_blank\">Methodist Federation for Social Action<\/a> Executive Director at <a href=\"mailto:chett@mfsaweb.org\">chett@mfsaweb.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyncoalition.org\/legislative-advocate-scholarships\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to learn more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Love Your Neighbor Coalition and the Oregon-Idaho Conference of The United Methodist Church with generous support from The Collins Foundation are excited to provide Leadership Development Scholarships for General Conference 2016 when it meets May 10-12 in Portland, Oregon. Scholarship recipients are paired with seasoned legislative advocates who have already been trained and are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":11559,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[449,438],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general-conference","8":"category-press-release"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/LYNC.jpg?fit=1100%2C706&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2l75j-30q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11562,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558\/revisions\/11562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}