{"id":336866,"date":"2021-01-18T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=336866"},"modified":"2021-01-18T06:00:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T20:00:58","slug":"mcdonalds-makes-2500-etc-donation-to-nmti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mcdonalds-makes-2500-etc-donation-to-nmti\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s makes $2,500 ETC donation to NMTI"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_336868\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-336868\" style=\"width: 1241px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mcdonalds-pix111.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-336868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">McDonald\u2019s Saipan owner\/operator Marcia E. Ayuyu, second from the left, hands a check donation of $2,500 to Northern Marianas Trades Institute chief executive officer Agnes McPhetres, second from right. Others in photo are McDonald\u2019s accountant Marissa E. Obtanalla, left, and purchasing officer Leonard Cabanting, right. (Neil Fama)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>McDonald\u2019s Saipan once again renewed its vow to assist the Northern Marianas Trades Institute in its workforce development strategy with an educational tax credit donation of $2,500 Wednesday last week.<\/p>\n<p>Marcia E. Ayuyu, vice president &amp; owner\/operator of McDonald\u2019s Saipan, presented the check donation to NMTI CEO Agnes McPhetres, who said it is important to note that McDonald\u2019s educational tax credits have already been committed to other worthy organizations\u201d and yet they find it in their hearts to continue giving. For this we are truly blessed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of our company\u2019s continuing effort to develop skills that help local employees, we are happy to present to NMTI the amount of $2,500 and wish to thank the NMTI board of directors for their dedication toward developing local talent,\u201d said Ayuyu.  <\/p>\n<p>This marks the fifth occasion that McDonald\u2019s has made an ETC donation to the school, marking over $20,500 in cash donations over a period of five years.  <\/p>\n<p>NMTI\u2019s relationship with the Ayuyu family began by chance at NMTI\u2019s first gala dinner at the Hyatt Regency Saipan in 2016, where McDonald\u2019s Saipan and Guam president Joe Ayuyu was an attendee. Seeing something special in the school that evening, Joe Ayuyu wrote NMTI a check in the amount of $3,000. That began a strong relationship of giving that remains strong today.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cOur community is so fortunate to have educational benefactors like the Ayuyus that actively subscribe to our homegrown sustainability approach. The workforce data hasn\u2019t changed much since 2008.  The CNMI continues to be plagued with the dilemma of addressing its ongoing shortage in the skilled trades areas.  Our leaders are faced with the tough decisions ahead on whether we continue to beseech Congress for extensions of federal policy or are we going to address this problem by supporting the \u2018hard skilled\u2019 professions by adequately funding them. I firmly believe that our community is beginning to see the need for NMTI and see beyond the rhetoric, thus the untiring contributions from the private sector,\u201d said McPhetres. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald\u2019s Saipan once again renewed its vow to assist the Northern Marianas Trades Institute in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":336868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[479],"class_list":["post-336866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-nmti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}