{"id":404871,"date":"2024-01-03T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=404871"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Tsubaki-Tower-raises-thousands-for-UOG-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Tsubaki-Tower-raises-thousands-for-UOG-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsubaki Tower raises thousands for UOG foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TUMON, Guam\u2014<\/strong>The Tsubaki Tower presented a check for $8,253 to the University of Guam\u2019s Endowment Foundation last Dec. 11, 2023, in support of the foundation\u2019s annual \u201cG is for Giving\u201d campaign and scholarship drive.<\/p>\n<p>The donation was the result of a commitment The Tsubaki Tower made to make a donation for every guest who dined at Casa Oceano, the resort\u2019s all-day dining restaurant, throughout November 2023.<\/p>\n<p>UOG president Dr. Anita Borja Enriquez received the check on behalf of the university. &#8220;We are extremely grateful to The Tsubaki Tower Guam for its generous scholarship contributions to support our University of Guam students. Their partnership with the UOG Endowment Foundation supports our College Affordability Initiative,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>UOG\u2019s \u201cG is for Giving\u201d program launched in 2017 and raises funds each year for academic scholarships. To date, the campaign has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarship funding.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Yanagisawa, president of P.H.R. Ken Micronesia, Inc. and general manager of The Tsubaki Tower, said his team was proud to support the \u201cG is for Giving\u201d campaign, which allowed the resort to raise money to support students who may consider future employment in tourism and the hospitality industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUOG is a vital partner for Guam\u2019s tourism industry, and we are pleased to support this campaign,\u201d he said. \u201cOn behalf of our company, team, and customers, we present this check as an investment in the next generation of hoteliers and tourism professionals. We encourage other companies to call UOG to learn how they can support the university and its students in a meaningful way.\u201d <em><strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/8ef8347b4623c7d1eff1c3327f6a7926.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>From left, Joel Davis, assistant general manager, The Tsubaki Tower; Ken Yanagisawa, incoming president, P.H.R. Ken Micronesia, and general manager, The Tsubaki Tower; Dr. Anita Borja Enriquez, president, University of Guam; Vincent \u201cBen\u201d Cruz, Military, Corporate Sales, and Community PR manager, The Tsubaki Tower; and Katrina T. Perez, executive director, UOG Endowment Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>-CONTRIBUTED PHOTO<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUMON, Guam\u2014The Tsubaki Tower presented a check for $8,253 to the University of Guam\u2019s Endowment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404871","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}