{"id":21762,"date":"2013-04-08T09:11:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T13:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=21762"},"modified":"2013-04-08T09:11:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T13:11:41","slug":"harlem-residents-the-groovy-projects-lift-kids-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=21762","title":{"rendered":"Harlem Resident&#8217;s The Groovy Projects Lift Kids Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #8b4513; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"he groovy \"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-21764\" alt=\"harlemcondolife the groovy projects\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-08-at-8.40.03-AM.png\" width=\"438\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-08-at-8.40.03-AM.png 548w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-08-at-8.40.03-AM-300x120.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A long term Harlem resident (and good friend of mine) Nate Lombardi is &#8220;empowering kids to find their passions through interactive and artistic projects with professionals. To let them feel how better it is to lift each other up!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Groovy Projects\u00a0is a company that empowers students and their teachers to understand how lifting up their peers feels worlds better than breaking them down. It seeks to educate them on how to deal with bullying in order to make it stop. \u00a0\u201cGroovy Projects\u201d include interactive student presentations (and training), art\/song contests, DVDs, CD games, short movies, and music videos. \u00a0The mission is to enlist some of New York City\u2019s most talented visionaries an to &#8220;mold thousands\u2026 millions\u2026 BILLIONS of children\u2019s perspectives on how to live a positive, encouraging and fulfilling life. We will get these kids excited and involved about creating inspiring art while doing good!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Project was recently featured on 20\/20 &#8211; see Chris Cuomo interview below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"kaltura_player_1365425225\" height=\"221\" width=\"392\" style=\"border: 0px solid #ffffff;\" src=\"http:\/\/cdnapi.kaltura.com\/index.php\/kwidget\/wid\/1_rpfe19qc\/uiconf_id\/3775332\/st_cache\/24512?referer=http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/2020\/video\/groovy-project-music-video-inspires-bullies-change-18432235&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;addThis.playerSize=392x221&amp;freeWheel.siteSectionId=nws_offsite&amp;closedCaptionActive=true&amp;\">Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames.<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Project is currently running an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/the-groovy-projects\/x\/1735543\" target=\"_blank\">Indiegogo fundraising campaign<\/a>\u00a0to get 100 small donations to show big money people that we have grass roots support! \u00a0 Only 2 days left! \u00a0Chip in a few tax-deductible bucks and spread the word for a great cause!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/project\/350661\/widget\/1735543\" height=\"486\" width=\"224\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444; font-size: 14px;\">For more information contact <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 14px;\" href=\"http:\/\/about.me\/natekid\" target=\"_blank\">Nate<\/a><span style=\"color: #444444; font-size: 14px;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long term Harlem resident (and good friend of mine) Nate Lombardi is &#8220;empowering kids&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124715438,15005908,124718155,18],"tags":[124715500,77809719,124715501,124718158,124718181,173973,124715503,124715502,124715498],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21762"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21762"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21772,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21762\/revisions\/21772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}