{"id":1399,"date":"2019-03-27T04:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T04:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2019-03-27T04:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T04:22:26","slug":"worthy-cause-countdown-this-girls-soccer-team-in-north-carolina-needs-481-for-jerseys-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=1399","title":{"rendered":"Worthy Cause Countdown: This Girls&rsquo;&nbsp;Soccer Team In North Carolina Needs $481 For Jerseys [UPDATED]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>NOTE FROM THE EDITORS: THIS GOAL HAS BEEN MET! \u00a0BUT YOU CAN GIVE TO ANOTHER WORTHY CAUSE\u00a0HERE.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>From December 14 through December 25, GOOD Sports will feature the worthiest school athletic programs in need of funding.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As the ISS (in-school suspension) instructor at Brogden Middle School in Durham, North Carolina,\u00a0Carla Kirkland helps students manage academic, behavioral, and emotional problems. She\u2019s also the girls&#8217; soccer coach. From her perspective, the two jobs go hand in hand.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately Brogden has a \u201cnonexistent\u201d athletic department budget, Kirkland\u00a0writes on DonorsChoose.org. It doesn\u2019t help that the Durham School Board cut $15 million from the district\u2019s budget in April, part of a nationwide trend of educational austerity.<\/p>\n<p>Heading into the new season, Kirkland started an <strong>online campaign<\/strong> to raise money for the soccer program, which hasn\u2019t replaced its shorts, socks, balls, pinnies, or any other equipment in five years.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The team needs $851 for new jersey kits and gear, and they\u2019re only <strong>$481 from the target<\/strong>. You have<strong> <\/strong><strong>21 days left<\/strong> to help. You can <strong>donate here<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em><em>Editor&rsquo;s note: Some projects listed on donorschoose.org have donations matched by Dick&rsquo;s Sporting Goods, which is a non-editorial presenting partner of GOOD Sports.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE FROM THE EDITORS: THIS GOAL HAS BEEN MET! \u00a0BUT YOU CAN GIVE TO ANOTHER WORTHY CAUSE\u00a0HERE. From December 14 through December 25, GOOD Sports will feature the worthiest school athletic programs in need of funding. As the ISS (in-school suspension) instructor at Brogden Middle School in Durham, North Carolina,\u00a0Carla Kirkland helps students manage academic,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}