{"id":61279,"date":"2019-11-08T11:21:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=61279"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:33","slug":"carleton-to-host-philanthropic-race-for-good-featuring-nav-superfan-bhatia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2019\/carleton-to-host-philanthropic-race-for-good-featuring-nav-superfan-bhatia\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton to Host Philanthropic Race for Good featuring Nav \u201cSuperfan\u201d Bhatia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton to Host Philanthropic Race for Good featuring Nav \u201cSuperfan\u201d Bhatia\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

In honour of National Philanthropy Day, Carleton University will host its inaugural Race for Good<\/a> – an Amazing Race<\/em>-style competition where six teams compete in challenges across Ottawa to win funding toward impactful student and faculty-led initiatives. The finish line event will feature a talk by Nav \u201cSuperfan\u201d Bhatia about his personal journey with philanthropy and basketball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media are invited to attend the finish line event.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When<\/strong>: Friday, Nov. 15, 2019 at 3 p.m.
\nWhere<\/strong>: Ravens’ Nest, Athletics Building, Carleton
\nInfo<\/strong>: This event is free and open to the public, registration is available online<\/a>. A campus map can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a visible minority and immigrant from India, Bhatia faced struggles and discrimination throughout the years. An entrepreneur and passionate philanthropist with a vision to unite people through basketball, he created the non-profit Nav Bhatia Superfan Foundation<\/em> \u2013 which raises money to build basketball courts and camps for kids in Canada and around the world. The foundation also supports Canada Basketball and the World Vision Rise-Up Daughters of India initiative, which helps to build washrooms for girls in northern India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Media Contact
\n<\/strong>Steven Reid
\nMedia Relations Officer
\nCarleton University
\n613-520-2600, ext. 8718
\n613-265-6613
\nSteven_Reid3@Carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In honour of National Philanthropy Day, Carleton University will host its inaugural Race for Good – an Amazing Race-style competition where six teams compete in challenges across Ottawa to win funding toward impactful student and faculty-led initiatives. The finish line event will feature a talk by Nav \u201cSuperfan\u201d Bhatia about his personal journey with philanthropy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":61280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[1559],"class_list":["post-61279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-advisories","tag-advancement"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61519,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61279\/revisions\/61519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}