{"id":13792,"date":"2026-04-27T09:36:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/?p=13792"},"modified":"2026-04-26T13:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T17:39:16","slug":"april-is-national-volunteer-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/2026\/04\/27\/april-is-national-volunteer-month\/","title":{"rendered":"April is National Volunteer Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">Did you know that April is National Volunteer Month?!?<\/div>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">As the saying goes April showers bring May flowers. And we can&#8217;t make our community beautiful if we don&#8217;t volunteer and help clean up right? With Greening Up the Mountain, Earth Day and lots of opportunities to get involved this month &#8211; anyone can take advantage of some time away from the office, giving back to the community.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">The Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning (CCESL) appreciates all our volunteers across campus! Visit the Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning website(https:\/\/www.wcu.edu\/learn\/academic-enrichment\/center-for-service-learning\/index.aspx), to find opportunities for community engagement this month and all year.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">Remember that full-time staff receive 24 hours of community service leave per year.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/?attachment_id=13793\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13793\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13793\" src=\"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/370\/2026\/04\/april_Catherine-MacCallum-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/370\/2026\/04\/april_Catherine-MacCallum-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/370\/2026\/04\/april_Catherine-MacCallum.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that April is National Volunteer Month?!? As the saying goes April showers bring May flowers. And we can&#8217;t make our community beautiful if we don&#8217;t volunteer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-service","category-staff-engagement-committee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13794,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13792\/revisions\/13794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}