{"id":394499,"date":"2025-11-21T11:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/394499\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T11:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:13:12","slug":"battle-of-flowers-foundation-announces-1-million-endowment-to-boost-educational-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/394499\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Flowers Foundation announces $1 million endowment to boost educational programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 The Battle of Flowers Foundation will announce a $1 million endowment gift from The Mays Family Foundation on Friday, which is Alamo Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>The announcement will be livestreamed in this article at 10:30 a.m. Delays are possible; if no livestream is available, check back at a later time.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The funding will ensure the long-term viability of the foundation\u2019s mission to preserve the traditions of Texas and San Antonio by sustaining the Battle of Flowers Association, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cThis funding stream will be used for expanding scholarship opportunities and teacher training, support educational programs with \u201cDay at the Alamo\u201d and Texas History Museum field trips, and protect the organization\u2019s legacy,&#8221; the release states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">On Friday, 900 students from across Texas will participate in School Day at the Alamo, an event supported by the Battle of Flowers Foundation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The event will take place at the Alamo Plaza de Valero, located at 300 Alamo Plaza in downtown San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>Fiesta<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The Battle of Flowers Foundation will announce a $1 million endowment gift from The Mays&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":394500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,187255,472,7202,7203,358,52073,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-394499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-battle-of-flowers","10":"tag-history","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-sanantonio","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-the-alamo","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}