{"id":20894,"date":"2022-02-08T15:20:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T20:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/?p=20894"},"modified":"2022-06-23T09:48:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T13:48:40","slug":"extraordinary-difference-mike-constantino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/2022\/02\/08\/extraordinary-difference-mike-constantino\/","title":{"rendered":"Extraordinary Difference: Mike Constantino \u201984 \u201985"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This article was originally posted by Campaign News<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Dec. 31, 2021, NC State\u2019s five-year Think and Do the Extraordinary Campaign came to an incredibly successful close. Alumni, friends, employees and more helped propel the university well past its goal of $1.6 billion for a grand total of $2,103,932,120. These new funds will help drive NC State\u2019s land-grant mission of creating economic, societal and intellectual prosperity for all by both reaffirming its commitment to broad educational opportunity and powering its cutting-edge, hands-on innovation as North Carolina\u2019s leading science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NC State alumnus and chair of the NC State University Foundation Board Mike Constantino \u201984 \u201985 is one of the many Pack members who contributed to this historic fundraising effort. Along with his wife, Lori \u201984, the former scholarship recipient is working to help others learn, grow and succeed at his alma mater by supporting the Extraordinary Opportunity Scholarship Initiative and other efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Mike Constantino shares what the Think and Do the Extraordinary Campaign means to him.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you volunteer to serve on a board at NC State, you have to have the passion to do it, but I think there are also other responsibilities that come with just being passionate,\u201d Constantino said. \u201cSome people believe that a college education is transactional \u2014 you pay your tuition, and when you earn your degree, your financial commitment to the university has ended. I believe that a college education is more than that and requires a lifelong financial commitment to your alma mater, particularly if you attended a public university.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To read more stories of campaign success, visit our Think and Do the Extraordinary page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This article was originally posted by Campaign News<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Dec. 31, 2021, NC State\u2019s five-year Think and Do the Extraordinary Campaign came to an incredibly successful close. Alumni, friends, employees and more helped propel the university well past its goal of $1.6 billion for a grand total of $2,103,932,120. These new funds will help drive NC State\u2019s land-grant mission of creating economic, societal and intellectual prosperity for all by both reaffirming its commitment to broad educational opportunity and powering its cutting-edge, hands-on innovation as North Carolina\u2019s leading science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NC State alumnus and chair of the NC State University Foundation Board Mike Constantino \u201984 \u201985 is one of the many Pack members who contributed to this historic fundraising effort. Along with his wife, Lori \u201984, the former scholarship recipient is working to help others learn, grow and succeed at his alma mater by supporting the Extraordinary Opportunity Scholarship Initiative and other efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mike Constantino shares what the Think and Do the Extraordinary Campaign means to him.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you volunteer to serve on a board at NC State, you have to have the passion to do it, but I think there are also other responsibilities that come with just being passionate,\u201d Constantino said. \u201cSome people believe that a college education is transactional \u2014 you pay your tuition, and when you earn your degree, your financial commitment to the university has ended. I believe that a college education is more than that and requires a lifelong financial commitment to your alma mater, particularly if you attended a public university.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To read more stories of campaign success, visit our Think and Do the Extraordinary page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Donating food to NC State\u2019s Feed the Pack food pantry has become a common practice for Mike Constantino and his wife, Lori. The couple\u2019s efforts to combat hunger on campus, of particular importance in 2020, have reinforced Constantino\u2019s long-held belief that \u201cstudent need\u201d goes far beyond simply paying tuition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/default-post-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{\"showAuthor\":false,\"showDate\":true,\"showFeaturedVideo\":false,\"caption\":\"\",\"displayCategoryID\":19}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1802,19],"tags":[],"_ncst_magazine_issue":[],"class_list":["post-20894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-profiles","category-giving"],"displayCategory":{"term_id":19,"name":"Giving","slug":"giving","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":19,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Stories about Poole College philanthropy.","parent":0,"count":212,"filter":"raw"},"acf":{"ncst_posts_meta_modified_date":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21752,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20894\/revisions\/21752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20894"},{"taxonomy":"_ncst_magazine_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_ncst_magazine_issue?post=20894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}