{"id":332055,"date":"2026-08-28T18:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332055\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T18:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:36:15","slug":"deli-owner-who-promised-snacks-to-one-student-has-raised-550k-for-staten-island-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332055\/","title":{"rendered":"Deli Owner Who Promised Snacks to One Student Has Raised $550K for Staten Island Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Staten Island deli owner Wail Alselwi, known online as &#8220;Island Ock,&#8221; has built a following by rewarding students for good grades. What began in 2023 with one promise to student Zameir Davis has grown into a larger effort backed by online supporters. Alselwi launched a GoFundMe in March 2025 for &#8220;Grades for Grabs,&#8221; and the fundraiser has raised more than $550,000. He says the money helps provide free snacks, cash prizes and continued support for students who improve. Alselwi has also helped organize school supply giveaways, including one outside Zack&#8217;s Finest Deli on Aug. 25. He says he wants to keep supporting children and hopes they learn to give back to the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staten Island deli owner Wail Alselwi, known online as &#8220;Island Ock,&#8221; has built a following by rewarding students&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[124154,124946,32384,124951,124947,9,24,63,124948,134,136,135,124949,124950],"class_list":["post-332055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-124154","tag-alselwi","tag-gofundme","tag-grabs","tag-island-ock","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-ock","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-wail-alselwi","tag-zameir-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}