{"id":1642,"date":"2010-02-17T13:06:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T18:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2017-11-28T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:55:00","slug":"10-year-old-nate-r-raises-14k-for-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/2010\/02\/17\/10-year-old-nate-r-raises-14k-for-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Year Old Nate R. Raises $14k for Wells!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/nate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1644\" title=\"nate\" src=\"http:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/nate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a>We received a note just a few days ago and were simply blown away by the efforts of an amazing young man named Nate.\u00a0 This past January, Nate raised over $14,000 by organizing a basketball shoot-out at his school.\u00a0 Amazing!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re so inspired when people like Nate hear about the need of clean water, and without any help simply step up, get involved and pull off an amazing fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we&#8217;ll be doing our part by sending 100% of the money Nate raised to the field, to build wells for schools in Kenya and Sudan, so students just like Nate can do some amazing things themselves!<\/p>\n<p><!--more Read more about Nate's Fundraiser --><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the note we received&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My son, Nate is 10 years old and just completed a successful fundraising effort for The Water Project,  Inc. by organizing a basketball shootout for his entire school.\u00a0 He was inspired  to do this by watching the American Idol Giveback show in 2008.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if it was your specific organization that was featured, but there was a  whole story on building wells in Africa for those that don\u2019t have access to clean water.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, he approached his principal at his school; St. Paul\u2019s Lutheran in Boca Raton, Florida and explained that he wanted help in organizing a fundraiser to raise money for this cause.\u00a0 He set up this  meeting on his own, and then told us about it.<\/p>\n<p>Long story short, with the help of his school, Nate organized a fundraiser  that took place on January 15<sup>th<\/sup> of this year and has raised  approximately $14,000.<\/p>\n<p>Below are two links to the fundraising story from our local papers.\u00a0 We are  obviously very proud of Nate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bocaparent.com\/newsandviews.php?s=basketball-for-cleaner-water\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bocaparent.com\/newsandviews.php?s=basketball-for-cleaner-water<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/news\/boca-fourth-grader-organizes-event-to-raise-money-176574.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/news\/boca-fourth-grader-organizes-event-to-raise-money-176574.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten Year Old Nate raises $14,000 to build wells by organizing a basketball shootout at his school in Florida.  What an amazing effort!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,7],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-groups","tag-fundraiser","tag-school"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}