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The Ice Bucket Challenge Ten Years Later

The Internet fundraiser inspired by Pete Frates 鈥�07 is still going strong a decade on.

This year is the tenth anniversary of the ice bucket challenge, the wildly popular ALS fundraiser inspired by Pete Frates 鈥�07. To mark the milestone, BC last summer hosted the ALS Association鈥檚 CEO Soak, a fundraising event where local business and community leaders do the ice bucket challenge, which raised more than sixty thousand dollars. During her keynote address at the event, Nancy Frates 鈥�80 recalled her son as someone who 鈥渓ived a life full of love, compassion, empathy, and leadership.鈥澨�

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