{"id":19707,"date":"2010-11-17T08:43:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T16:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19707"},"modified":"2010-11-17T08:45:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T16:45:04","slug":"consolidateds-dont-do-it-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19707","title":{"rendered":"Consolidated&#8217;s Don&#8217;t Do It Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/consolidatedskateboardsCS.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/consolidatedskateboardsCS.jpg','popup','width=420,height=360,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\/2010\/11\/consolidatedskateboardsCS-tm.jpg\" height=\"171\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Consolidatedskateboardscs\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consolidatedskateboard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Consolidated Skateboard&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong><strong> Steve \u201cBirdo\u201d Guisinger<\/strong> (pictured right with <strong>Leticia Ruano<\/strong>) gets the local hero profile treatment on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.santacruz.com\/2010\/11\/17\/Santa_Cruz_Skateboard_Manufacturer_Starts_skate_local_first_Campaign\" target=\"_blank\">Santacruz.com<\/a><\/strong> and uses it to kick off their <strong>Don&#8217;t Do It Foundation<\/strong>. The non-profit organization is dedicated to supporting local core shops.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s message,\u201d Guisinger says.  \u201c\u2019Keep the surf skate and snowboard industry in the hands of those that are passionate about it.\u2019\u201d . . . \u201cIf all you have is a mall or sporting goods chain in your town, we ask that you don\u2019t support them, and instead order from a skater owned, online store,\u201d it says. . . Guisinger sees it as a simple choice. \u201cThe only way for local stores to survive is to drive mall chains out of business,\u201d he explains. \u201cSo we want people at whatever cost to not support the mall chain. You vote with your money. If you go to the mall chains, you\u2019re only empowering them. Go to your local skate shop. If you don\u2019t have a local skate shop, buy online from a local company.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears a lot can be done by not doing something.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.santacruz.com\/2010\/11\/17\/Santa_Cruz_Skateboard_Manufacturer_Starts_skate_local_first_Campaign\" target=\"_blank\">Santacruz.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consolidated Skateboard&#8217;s Steve \u201cBirdo\u201d Guisinger (pictured right with Leticia Ruano) gets the local hero profile treatment on Santacruz.com and uses it to kick off their Don&#8217;t Do It Foundation. The non-profit organization is dedicated to supporting local core shops. \u201cIt\u2019s message,\u201d Guisinger says. \u201c\u2019Keep the surf skate and snowboard industry in the hands of those [&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":[16,3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19709,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19707\/revisions\/19709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}