{"id":41600,"date":"2019-02-05T12:17:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T17:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?page_id=41600"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:20:15","slug":"get-involved","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/about\/offices-services\/college-access-student-success\/get-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Involved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are several ways to get involved in supporting the College Access &amp; Student Services programs: be a volunteer, become a mentor, or give your financial support. However you choose to become involved in CASS programs, we look forward to getting to know you.<\/p>\n<h3>Be a Volunteer<\/h3>\n<p>Current volunteer and partnership opportunities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/students\/build\/about\/\">BUILD<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ub\/employment\/\">Upward Bound<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ubms\/employment\/\">Upward Bound Math Science<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Give Your Financial Support<\/h3>\n<p>The university supports all of CASS\u2019s vital programs, with the aid of grants and generous donors. Donor support is particularly important to CASS and helps ensure our success in many ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sponsor mentor training and professional development or enable mentors and students to visit or participate in local cultural, arts, or science-related events<\/li>\n<li>Pay for campus visits by precollege students and their parents; undergraduates\u2019 travel to study abroad; or the cost of summer housing for internships or research<\/li>\n<li>Support community-building activities that promote peer support and foster a community of care<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/trusted.bu.edu\/s\/1759\/2-bu\/giving\/interior.aspx?sid=1759&amp;gid=2&amp;pgid=2505&amp;cid=4460&amp;appealcode=WEBSED\" class=\"button\">Make a Gift Now<\/a>\n<p><strong>Note: <\/strong>When making a gift online via the above link, select &#8220;Other Fund&#8221; from the &#8220;Choose Your Fund&#8221; menu, and enter &#8220;BPS Collaborative Fund&#8221; when prompted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are several ways to get involved in supporting the College Access &amp; Student Services programs: be a volunteer, become a mentor, or give your financial support. However you choose to become involved in CASS programs, we look forward to getting to know you. Be a Volunteer Current volunteer and partnership opportunities: Work for BUILD,\u00a0Upward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11209,"featured_media":0,"parent":41590,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"bu-publication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41600"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84221,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41600\/revisions\/84221"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=41600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}