Garrett Nicholas, the 21-year-old West Chester University student killed<\/a> after being hit by a car two weeks ago. His fraternity brothers said Garette was a kind and compassionate guy. <\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re here for Garrett to support our fraternity brother\u201d, said Matt. <\/p>\n
\u201cRunning a 5K and 10k, said Dane. <\/p>\n
\u201cReally nice that we can make something good of this terrible situation,\u201d said Mike. <\/p>\n
Nicholas’ organs were donated to the Gift of Life program. It saved three lives and will help heal up to 100 others through tissue donation.<\/p>\n
Gift of Life president and CEO Richard (Rick) Hasz hopes others will also be inspired by the generosity.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really extraordinary, and all you have to do is go on to Donors1.org and check that box; it takes 30 seconds, and that 30 seconds can mean a lifetime for someone else,\u201d said Hasz. <\/p>\n
Lisa Connolly donated to her daughter and said it\u2019s a wonderful feeling to save a life.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a miracle to watch them enjoy life as a second chance,\u201d said Connolly.<\/p>\n
The Donor Dash raised over $700,000 and counting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Runners laced up and took over the Navy Yard in South Philadelphia Sunday morning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[76760,12855,69,71,70,645],"class_list":["post-176819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-gift-of-life-donor-program","tag-organ-donor","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-south-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}