{"id":12588,"date":"2019-03-13T16:04:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T21:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=12588"},"modified":"2019-03-14T10:49:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T15:49:40","slug":"creating-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2019\/03\/13\/creating-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating The Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignright wp-image-12589 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/larsonwpstory-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Nick, Andrew, and Alex Larson\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>A Message From MPA&#8217;s Board Of Trustees\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>by Matthew Larson, MPA Parent, Board Treasurer, Board Chair-Elect<\/em><\/p>\n<p>MPA\u2019s faculty and staff are creating and nurturing our children\u2019s dreams and providing the skills and mindsets it will take to fulfill them every day. Our school\u2019s mission is held in deep regard and is sincerely felt throughout its classrooms and hallways. The future spaces and opportunities that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/together\">Together, We Dream<\/a> will create will be game changing for our students, faculty, staff, and entire MPA community. If I may speak on behalf of the MPA Board of Trustees, we believe Abraham Lincoln said it well: \u201cThe best way to predict your future is to create it.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This community-wide effort to proactively create MPA\u2019s successful future is inspiring to me and our family. We have learned through the years that these efforts are all about participation and that everyone\u2019s generosity is pooled together to make dramatic positive impacts across our community. While the transformational changes will have immediate and positive impact upon our children today, they will also help build MPA\u2019s successful future.<\/p>\n<p>Together, We Dream is an effort to continuously elevate MPA\u2019s campus environment while also developing an even stronger financial foundation for the school\u2019s future. The MPA endowment is an important priority of the campaign. Funding the MPA endowment provides assets now that will fund MPA\u2019s mission forever, across generations.<\/p>\n<p>As Warren Buffet says in his famous paraphrase of an ancient Chinese saying, \u201cSomeone\u2019s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.\u201d This campaign is an opportunity for all of us to come together to uphold and preserve the MPA experience for both current students and generations of Panthers to come. A healthy endowment provides opportunities for MPA to even more vigorously deliver upon its mission in the future and a state-of-the-art facility enables innovative, collaborative learning for the next century. <strong>Every dollar of every gift allows the MPA community to dream big and do right today and forever. One-hundred percent of the members of the Board of Trustees have made a gift\u2014thank you for joining us and thank you for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Message From MPA&#8217;s Board Of Trustees\u00a0 by Matthew Larson, MPA Parent, Board Treasurer, Board Chair-Elect MPA\u2019s faculty and staff are creating and nurturing our children\u2019s dreams and providing the skills and mindsets it will take to fulfill them every day. Our school\u2019s mission is held in deep regard and is sincerely felt throughout its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":12590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,26,5398,28,24,29,9,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-blog","category-campaign","category-current-families","category-featured-posts","category-homepage","category-lower-school","category-middle-school","category-upper-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12588"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12618,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588\/revisions\/12618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}