{"id":220647,"date":"2026-04-06T15:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220647\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:29:09","slug":"north-florida-athletics-set-for-giving-day-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220647\/","title":{"rendered":"North Florida Athletics Set for Giving Day 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013\u00a0The University of North Florida and North Florida Athletics are set for Giving Day 2026, the eighth edition of the annual fundraising initiative to support the holistic development of its student-athletes and programs.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nGiving Day 2026 will take place on Wednesday, April 8, but those interested can contribute now through early giving at the link above or at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/givingday.unf.edu\/pages\/unf-athletics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/givingday.unf.edu\/pages\/unf-athletics<\/a>.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Morrow Match is BACK! Vice President of Intercollegiate Athletics <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/staff-directory\/nick-morrow\/170\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"170\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Morrow<\/a> will match $1000 when 88 donors contribute to the Swoop Impact Fund, a count that celebrates North Florida&#8217;s 88 NCAA Championship appearances. Additionally, an extra $500 Morrow Match will be unlocked when North Florida Athletics reaches 149 Swoop Impact donors to celebrate North Florida&#8217;s 149\u00a0ASUN Conference Individual Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters interested in making an impact are encouraged to support the North Florida Athletics department or sport-specific fundraising efforts. A total of 19 athletics specific pages, including 14 sport-specific funds are available through the link above.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>North Florida\u00a0Athletics experienced unprecedented fundraising success in 2025 with another record of $856,276 raised behind the support of 1,810 donors. North Florida Athletics also had 100 percent staff participation.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nNorth Florida Athletics accounted for 40 percent of the donors and 36 percent of the dollars raised with the largest collection in each mark from the overall 2025 Giving Day total.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFollow all North Florida Athletics social media platforms\u00a0for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013\u00a0The University of North Florida and North Florida Athletics are set for Giving Day 2026, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-220647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}