{"id":73755,"date":"2018-03-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/students-raise-more-than-15000-for-st-baldricks-foundation\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T00:00:00","slug":"students-raise-more-than-15000-for-st-baldricks-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/students-raise-more-than-15000-for-st-baldricks-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Students raise more than $15,000 for St. Baldrick\u2019s Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I.- March 26, 2018 \u2014 Did someone say shave the day? More than 100 溏心vlog免费B站 students answered that call to action during the third annual St. Baldrick\u2019s event Monday, which raised more than $15,000 for the St Baldrick\u2019s Foundation<\/a> for childhood cancer research.<\/p>\n

The music echoing through the Memorial Union Ballroom helped soothe the angst some participants might have experienced when making the decision to shave their heads or donate their hair to raise money and awareness for research into childhood cancers.<\/p>\n

Event organizer and co-coordinator Ian Kanterman is driven by his own connection to pediatric cancer. A survivor himself, Kanterman views his second chance as a way to give back as much as possible.<\/p>\n

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Ian Kanterman shaving his head for pediatric cancer research and awareness with Rhody by his side.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI hope that St. Baldrick\u2019s sees many more years at 溏心vlog免费B站,\u201d said Kanterman, a Brick, N.J<\/strong>. native who coordinated 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s first St. Baldrick\u2019s event three years ago. \u201cSt. Baldrick\u2019s is just one piece of my legacy that I hope will create ripples of passion in others. To genuinely empower others to find a worthy cause to support and give back to their community selflessly \u2014 that\u2019s my hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the event, participants and attendees posed in a photo booth with props, wrote \u201cget well\u201d notes to pediatric cancer patients and entered a raffle that included such prizes as Khalid concert tickets and gift cards to local restaurants, including Mew\u2019s Tavern and Iggy\u2019s.<\/p>\n

While the focus remained on the volunteers shaving their heads on the stage, there was also a table where attendees could donate to the Children\u2019s Miracle Network<\/a>, another nonprofit organization that is the beneficiary of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s first RhodyThon<\/a> dance marathon.<\/p>\n

溏心vlog免费B站 sophomore nursing major Molly Beluk made the bold decision to donate 12 inches of hair and completely shave her head in solidarity with pediatric cancer patients, while raising more than $2,700. Beluk, who has donated her hair three times before, explains that the decision to completely shave her head was many years in the making.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince my junior year of high school, I had planned to raise as much money as possible for childhood cancer research and awareness and eventually shave my head,\u201d said the Newburyport, Mass., <\/strong>resident. \u201cThe motivation behind shaving my head was for all the children who don’t have the choice to shave their heads and who have no clue what cancer is and why it’s affecting their body the way it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Olivia Ross, an intern in the Marketing and Communications Department at 溏心vlog免费B站 and public relations major, wrote this press release.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I.- March 26, 2018 \u2014 Did someone say shave the day? More than 100 溏心vlog免费B站 students answered that call to action during the third annual St. Baldrick\u2019s event Monday, which raised more than $15,000 for the St Baldrick\u2019s Foundation for childhood cancer research. The music echoing through the Memorial Union Ballroom […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}