{"id":3387,"date":"2026-06-14T18:13:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2026-06-14T18:13:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:13:42","slug":"thirty-years-of-investing-in-communities-alumna-shannon-lawder-on-language-philanthropy-and-following-your-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=3387","title":{"rendered":"Thirty years of investing in communities: Alumna Shannon Lawder on language, philanthropy, and following your passion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ucsc.edu\/2026\/06\/thirty-years-of-investing-in-communities-alumna-shannon-lawder-on-language-philanthropy-and-following-your-passion\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Thirty years of investing in communities: Alumna Shannon Lawder on language, philanthropy, and following your passion\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.ucsc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IU-Video-Shannon-Lawder-Selects-1F4A9882-scaled.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">news.ucsc.edu<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Thirty years of investing in communities: Alumna Shannon Lawder on language, philanthropy, and following your passion<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">UC Santa Cruz alumna Shannon Lawder (Kresge \u201991, Russian studies) is the director of the Civil Society Program at the Mott Foundation. The Mott Foundation has supported communities worldwide for 100 years, and Lawder has been part of that mission for 31 years.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-3387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educacion","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3388,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions\/3388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}