{"id":161954,"date":"2026-04-10T01:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/161954\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T01:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:37:07","slug":"mercer-county-food-bank-wins-10k-gbu-foundation-grant-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/161954\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercer County Food Bank wins $10k GBU Foundation grant | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mercer County Food Bank walked away a winner Thursday night, taking home first-place and a $10,000 GBU Foundation Community Grant Award.<\/p>\n

The award was decided by a public vote, and Development Director Alexis Spence-Locke said they are extremely grateful for the community\u2019s votes of support.<\/p>\n

\"Mercer<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat $10,000 award is because of our community,\u201d Spence-Locke said. \u201cBecause of them we will be able to provide 20,000 meals to community members in need.\u201d<\/p>\n

The GBU Foundation<\/a>, which sponsored the grant,\u00a0is a charitable arm of the Pittsburgh-based fraternal benefit society, GBU Life, that awards funds to non-profit organizations each year based on its four Community pillars: Wellness, Education, Charitable Giving, and Hometown Hero Support.<\/p>\n

The Mercer County Food Bank falls under the Charitable Giving Pillar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Spence-Locke also thanked 21 News viewers specifically, for taking the time to vote for Mercer County Food Bank and help them reach this milestone.<\/p>\n

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Last Day to vote for Mercer County Food Bank for $10k Grant<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercer County Food Bank walked away a winner Thursday night, taking home first-place and a $10,000 GBU Foundation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[45771,43003,73111,73110,73,75,74,73112],"class_list":["post-161954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-charitable-giving","tag-community-grant","tag-gbu-foundation","tag-mercer-county-food-bank","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-public-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161954","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=161954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}