{"id":1754,"date":"2021-12-14T02:59:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T02:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2021-12-16T23:03:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T23:03:53","slug":"fred-vanvleet-creates-scholarship-for-black-and-indigenous-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/14\/fred-vanvleet-creates-scholarship-for-black-and-indigenous-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred VanVleet creates scholarship for Black and Indigenous students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You may know Fred VanVleet for his basketball prowess but he is also an influential force off the court. He is partnering with the <a href=\"https:\/\/rotmancommerce.utoronto.ca\/future-students\/scholarships-and-awards\/the-fred-vanvleet-scholarship\/\">Rotman Commerce <\/a>at the University of Toronto to offer the \u2018Fred VanVleet Scholarship\u2019 to support a Black or Indigenous student through their undergraduate degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Excited to announce the Fred VanVleet Scholarship at Rotman Commerce program at the University of Toronto. <br><br>Apply today at : <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/05MXTm5UnQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/05MXTm5UnQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A5Y8dNBmuQ\">pic.twitter.com\/A5Y8dNBmuQ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred VanVleet (@FredVanVleet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FredVanVleet\/status\/1470422677563363331?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 13, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The scholarship will provide four years of tuition plus a $1,000 stipend for books each year, with preference to a student focused on management. The total value of the four-year scholarship for one student is more than $60,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is to create possibility and light for those who have faced bias, who haven\u2019t had the same chances as others. It\u2019s important to provide opportunities to those who opportunity usually ignores, or works against, or excludes,\u201d VanVleet said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAcademia hasn\u2019t traditionally been an inclusive place for many of us, and so it\u2019s important to make space specifically for people who want to learn, but who are facing barriers that others do not,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scholarship recipient will also have a once in a lifetime change to get one-on-one mentoring from VanVleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMentorship is an important part of this, because you won\u2019t find a lot of the answers in books \u2013 or the answers that are there are filtered through an experience and a history that is not yours or that may not even be accurate because of bias,\u201d VanVleet said. \u201cMentorship can provide inspiration, too \u2013 seeing someone who looks like you, succeeding on their own terms, is huge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFred sets an example on and off the court, and this scholarship is further evidence of his leadership and vision,\u201d Raptors Vice Chairman and President Masai Ujiri said. \u201cI believe the recipient of the Fred VanVleet Scholarship will benefit from not just the support in their education, but their relationship with this incredible person.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides being a NBA champion, VanVleet is also an entrepreneur, whose interests include a clothing line and shop, and who hosts a podcast aimed at BIPOC businesspeople, supporting their efforts across all stages of their career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred VanVleet is partnering with the University of Toronto to offer a scholarship in his name that supports the education of Black or Indigenous students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-features"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fred-vanvleet2.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}