{"id":9736,"date":"2021-04-01T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T12:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=9736"},"modified":"2021-04-01T08:39:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T12:39:07","slug":"etown-edorg-hosting-virtual-fundraising-event-for-a-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2021\/04\/01\/etown-edorg-hosting-virtual-fundraising-event-for-a-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Etown EdOrg Hosting Virtual Fundraising Event for A-T"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elizabethtown College\u2019s Education Organization is hosting a virtual fundraising team competition throughout the month of April to benefit the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atcp.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ataxia-Telangiectasia (A-T) Children\u2019s Project (ATCP)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The fundraiser will culminate with a virtual walkathon weekend on April 23-25.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Registration is free at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atcp.org\/etownwalksforat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">atcp.com\/EtownWalksforAT<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Members of the Etown campus community can lend their support by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2021\/03\/How-to-register-PDF-WALKAT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">creating or joining a team, fundraising, and walking it out for A-T<\/a>. During the month of April, participants are encouraged to share their fundraising page to solicit donations while inviting friends and family to join them for the walkathon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On walkathon weekend, participants can accumulate their miles by walking anywhere they like. They can also share photos by using the hashtag: #EtownWalksforAT and tagging Etown EdOrg on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A-T is a rare, fatal, genetic disease that attacks children, causing progressive loss of muscle control, cancer, and immune system problems. ATCP encourages and supports excellent laboratory research which will accelerate the discovery of a cure or possible therapies for the disease.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College\u2019s Education Organization is hosting a virtual fundraising team competition throughout the month of April to benefit the Ataxia-Telangiectasia (A-T) Children\u2019s Project (ATCP). The fundraiser will culminate with a virtual walkathon weekend on April 23-25. Registration is free at atcp.com\/EtownWalksforAT. Members of the Etown campus community can lend their support by creating or joining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":9740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1383,197,1350],"class_list":["post-9736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","tag-a-t-project","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9742,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736\/revisions\/9742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}