{"id":41936,"date":"2013-05-29T12:40:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T19:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=41936"},"modified":"2013-05-29T12:45:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T19:45:16","slug":"project-woo-could-use-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=41936","title":{"rendered":"Project WOO Could Use Your Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_0NCa-5S4Hw\" height=\"253\" width=\"450\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectwoo.org\"><strong>Project WOO<\/strong><\/a> (Wave of Optimism), a\u00a07-year-old\u00a0non-profit founded by ex-Peace Corp volunteers, is\u00a0currently working in Playa Gigante, Nicaragua\u00a0to create a sustainable community based partially on surf tourism. They&#8217;re doing well with the program, however, they&#8217;ve turned to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/surfers-for-community-health\"><strong>Indiegogo.com<\/strong><\/a> to help raise funds to do more.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The non-profit has already started a surf-mentorship program where kids can earn donated boards through community service, initiated a waste management program, and procured a school bus that facilitates education.\u00a0Our next project is a health center and we\u2019re using the crowd-funding site <a href=\"http:\/\/igg.me\/at\/projectwoohealth\/x\/3233345\">indiegogo.com (link to our page)<\/a> to help raise money from surfers who have been touched by this beautiful paradise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The organization is run in Nicaragua by Palos Verdes, California bred surfer <strong>Bo Fox<\/strong>, and the Executive Director stateside is <strong>Trent Gordon<\/strong>. Watch the edit, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectwoo.org\"><strong>click the link to the Project WOO website<\/strong><\/a> for more info and then made a donation if you feel compelled. They&#8217;d like to raise $15,000 for this project and with 38 days left, they&#8217;re already halfway there. It&#8217;s hard not to feel good about what Fox and Gordon are doing. Especially when you see the smiles on the kids&#8217; faces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectwoo.org\">Project WOO<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project WOO (Wave of Optimism), a\u00a07-year-old\u00a0non-profit founded by ex-Peace Corp volunteers, is\u00a0currently working in Playa Gigante, Nicaragua\u00a0to create a sustainable community based partially on surf tourism. They&#8217;re doing well with the program, however, they&#8217;ve turned to Indiegogo.com to help raise funds to do more. The non-profit has already started a surf-mentorship program where kids can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41936"}],"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=41936"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41940,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41936\/revisions\/41940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}