{"id":569,"date":"2017-08-03T12:48:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T12:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/?page_id=569"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:35:07","slug":"about-tggb","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The Great Give Back is a community service initiative created by the Suffolk County Public Library Directors Association and the Suffolk Cooperative Library System, in conjunction with the Nassau Library System.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"489\" data-id=\"4782\" src=\"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GreatGiveBack_illustrations-04-8-1024x489.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GreatGiveBack_illustrations-04-8-1024x489.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GreatGiveBack_illustrations-04-8-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GreatGiveBack_illustrations-04-8-768x367.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GreatGiveBack_illustrations-04-8-1536x733.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GreatGiveBack_illustrations-04-8-2048x978.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GreatGiveBack_illustrations-04-8-1140x544.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our Mission<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The mission of The Great Give Back is to provide a day of opportunities for the patrons of the Public Libraries of New York State to participate in meaningful, service-oriented experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GreatGiveBack_illustrations-02-1-1024x580.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GreatGiveBack_illustrations-02-1-1024x580.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GreatGiveBack_illustrations-02-1-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GreatGiveBack_illustrations-02-1-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GreatGiveBack_illustrations-02-1-1536x870.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GreatGiveBack_illustrations-02-1-2048x1160.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GreatGiveBack_illustrations-02-1-1140x645.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Give Back is a community service initiative created by the Suffolk County Public Library Directors Association and the Suffolk Cooperative Library System, in conjunction with the Nassau Library System. Our Mission The mission of The Great Give Back is to provide a day of opportunities for the patrons&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-569","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5677,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/569\/revisions\/5677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}