{"id":10385,"date":"2016-04-08T13:42:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T13:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/?p=10385"},"modified":"2018-05-08T20:53:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T20:53:28","slug":"edward-blanco-78-makes-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/2016\/04\/08\/edward-blanco-78-makes-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Blanco &#8217;78 makes a difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Donor Spotlight<br \/>\n<\/strong>Edward Blanco &#8217;78<br \/>\nFormer Senior Administrator for the City of Miami<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive size-full wp-image-10386 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/fiualumni-eastus.azurewebsites.net\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Edward-Blanco-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Edward-Blanco-200x300\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><strong>What do you love most about FIU and your involvement here?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"s1\">FIU provided a learning environment that spurred me to go back to school to earn a Master&#8217;s degree, furthering my education and enhancing my chances for a better job and career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">What advice would you give to a potential donor who is considering investing in FIU?<br \/>\n<\/strong><span class=\"s1\">Think of their children and the opportunities FIU can provide to them for their careers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Why do you think giving back is important to the advancement of FIU and its students?<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\">Life is not about what you take and make but, rather what you can give back to the community and leave for others to experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><strong>Where has life taken you since graduating from FIU?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\">From working for a multi-national corporation for two-years to working in banking for three years to completing a 27-year career in local government as a senior administrator with the City of Miami.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Why do you feel it is important for alumni &amp; donors to stay engaged\/connected with FIU?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Because the university is part of the community we live in and therefore, remaining engaged is important to me personally since I am still in touch with friends and faculty of the school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>How did FIU prepare you to get where you are professionally?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe school filled a void in Miami for a public university that did not exist here prior to that. I was able to stay home in Miami and attend FIU where I received my Bachelor&#8217;s degree, my first professional job and prepared me for graduate school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>What advice would you give to students and young alumni?<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\">Enhance their writing and public speaking skills as they are so important to making young professionals stand out and increase their prospects for promotion and gainful employment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Are you an FIU donor? We want to hear from you! <a href=\"https:\/\/webforms.fiu.edu\/view.php?id=112460\" target=\"_blank\">Submit your Spotlight Nomination Form today<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donor Spotlight Edward Blanco &#8217;78 Former Senior Administrator for the City of Miami &nbsp; What do you love most about FIU and your involvement here? FIU provided a learning environment that spurred me to go back to school to earn a Master&#8217;s degree, furthering my education and enhancing my chances for a better job and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,368],"tags":[376,381,366],"class_list":["post-10385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-spotlight","category-philanthropy","tag-donor-spotlight","tag-newsletter","tag-philanthropy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15088,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385\/revisions\/15088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}