{"id":7290,"date":"2009-04-08T16:33:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T23:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7290"},"modified":"2009-04-08T19:34:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T02:34:12","slug":"the-maloofs-helping-injured-skateboarders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7290","title":{"rendered":"The Maloofs Helping Injured Skateboarders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/maloof-skate-logo.gif\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/maloof-skate-logo.gif','popup','width=200,height=200,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/maloof-skate-logo-tm.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Maloof-Skate Logo\" \/><\/a>As if the Maloof family isn&#8217;t doing enough for skateboarding with their annual $450,000 prize purse <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allisports.com\/tours\/maloof-money-cup\" target=\"_blank\">Maloof Money Cup<\/a><\/strong> at the Orange County Fairgrounds, they&#8217;ve also a foundation called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coachingcharities.com\/Maloof_skate.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Maloof Skateboarding Assistance Foundation<\/a><\/strong> which appears to be run by a &#8220;foundation management&#8221; company based in Las Vegas, Nevada called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coachingcharities.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coaching Charities<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coachingcharities.com\/Maloof_skate.html\" target=\"_blank\">CoachingCharities.com<\/a><\/strong> The Maloof Skateboarding Assistance Foundation is a &#8220;501(C)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing support to professional skaters who suffer catastrophic injuries arising from skateboarding events.&#8221; In a USA Today story Joe Maloof explained the background for the charity.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There&#8217;s tremendous risk in these contests,&#8221; he says. &#8220;They&#8217;re performing tricks that only the world&#8217;s top athletes have the ability to complete. We had a duty to take the lead in taking care of our own. . . &#8220;These aren&#8217;t just kids. There are a few 15- or 16-year-olds, but most are ages 19 to 35, the same age range as NBA players.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do people really care about skateboarders? At the Maloof Family of companies they do. And if they can get some tax relief at the same time, even better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/action\/2009-04-07-skateboard-maloof-money-cup_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if the Maloof family isn&#8217;t doing enough for skateboarding with their annual $450,000 prize purse Maloof Money Cup at the Orange County Fairgrounds, they&#8217;ve also a foundation called The Maloof Skateboarding Assistance Foundation which appears to be run by a &#8220;foundation management&#8221; company based in Las Vegas, Nevada called Coaching Charities. According CoachingCharities.com The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7293,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions\/7293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}