{"id":82495,"date":"2020-08-12T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=82495"},"modified":"2020-08-12T06:11:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T11:11:01","slug":"metallica-contributing-money-via-college-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=82495","title":{"rendered":"METALLICA &#8211; Contributing Money Via College Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Metallica Scholars Year Two\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KO1FfK93MsA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>METALLICA<\/strong>\u00a0have announced their plans for the second year of their \u2018<strong>Metallica Scholars Initiative<\/strong>&#8216;, which finds them issuing $1.5 million in grants to over a dozen community colleges in the United States. The band launched that program last year via their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.allwithinmyhands.org\/news-media\/news\/metallica-scholars-initiative-year-two.html\">All Within My Hands<\/a>\u00a0organization, donating $1,000,000 in grants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">According to the band\u2019s camp, last year\u2019s initiative \u2018resulted in more than 700 first-wave&nbsp;<strong>Metallica<\/strong>&nbsp;Scholars with an overall 80-90% program completion rate, and a 93% job placement for those who completed their certifications\/studies!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Further details, including this year\u2019s partners and participating colleges, can be found&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.allwithinmyhands.org\/news-media\/news\/metallica-scholars-initiative-year-two.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8220;American quartet\u00a0Metallica were one of the most influential heavy metal bands of the &#8217;80s and &#8217;90s, inspiring generations of rockers with their early thrash and later hard rock sounds before settling into their roles as a popular legacy act in the 2000s. Responsible for bringing the metal genre back to earth, the bandmates looked and talked like they were from the street, shunning the usual rock star games of metal musicians during the mid-&#8217;80s pop-metal renaissance.&#8221; &#8211; All Music<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>METALLICA\u00a0have announced their plans for the second year of their \u2018Metallica Scholars Initiative&#8216;, which finds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82498,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82495\/revisions\/82498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}