{"id":9474,"date":"2017-10-30T10:35:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T14:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/?p=9474"},"modified":"2017-10-30T10:44:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T14:44:03","slug":"training-days-by-obama-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/2017\/10\/30\/training-days-by-obama-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Days by Obama Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube--wrap\">\n<div class=\"youtube--container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/artsadmin\/files\/2017\/10\/Obamafoundation-636x382.png\" alt=\"Obamafoundation\" width=\"636\" height=\"382\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/files\/2017\/10\/Obamafoundation-636x382.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/files\/2017\/10\/Obamafoundation-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/files\/2017\/10\/Obamafoundation-1024x614.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/files\/2017\/10\/Obamafoundation.png 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"youtube--container\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"youtube--container\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Obama Foundation Training Days was launched to energize young people\u2014particularly those who are not yet engaged in civic life\u2014and help kickstart their work to make a positive difference in their community. <!--more-->The first pilot training was held in Chicago with 150 participants, ages 18 to 24. These young people joined the Obama Foundation team to learn how to use their own story as a powerful tool for change and what concrete, simple steps they can take to organize around the issues they care about. The program is partnering with diverse organizations\u2014from universities to churches to opportunity youth organizations\u2014to design and lead each training.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Obama Foundation is hosting a series of Training Days across the country to teach young people how to put civics into action where they live.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tempe: November 11th<br \/>\nBoston: November 18th<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Visit their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obama.org\/training-days\/\">website<\/a> to learn about the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama Foundation Training Days was launched to energize young people\u2014particularly those who are not yet engaged in civic life\u2014and help kickstart their work to make a positive difference in their community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9474"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9488,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474\/revisions\/9488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}