To an outsider looking in, Emma Manetta would not seem too far removed from what might be expected of a 12-year-old girl.

“I like doing musicals with GO-FAME [Youth Theater Company]. I also like to draw and watch Netflix,” she said. “I like to shop too!”

Yet unlike many individuals her age, Emma has raised an amount of money that might surpass the imagination of most sixth graders for an organization that she firmly stands behind; and all in under a year.