{"id":22960,"date":"2025-11-03T05:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/22960\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T05:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:34:06","slug":"walk4friendship-in-pittsburgh-raises-funds-supports-disability-inclusion-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/22960\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk4Friendship in Pittsburgh raises funds, supports disability inclusion \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Hundreds of people walked on Sunday to raise funds for the community and support disability inclusion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">It was the fifth annual Walk4Friendship, a one-mile walk through Pittsburgh\u2019s Squirrel Hill neighborhood, ending at Wightman Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Students from several local schools took part in the event, which was hosted by Friendship Circle Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Participants say that, with so much divisiveness in the world, it\u2019s great to see the community coming together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re really excited to really celebrate inclusion,\u201d Winchester Thurston student Harlow Greenwald said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s super important to make inclusion the norm, and that\u2019s what this is doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Funds raised during the walk support programs serving more than 500 youth and adults with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Hundreds of people walked on Sunday to raise funds for the community and support disability inclusion.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15322,15328,15321,15318,15327,15317,2350,15325,15326,15324,73,75,74,15323,397,5748,15319,15315,15316,15320],"class_list":{"0":"post-22960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-adults-with-disabilities","9":"tag-disabilities","10":"tag-disability","11":"tag-disability-inclusion","12":"tag-disabled","13":"tag-friendship-circle-pittsburgh","14":"tag-fundraiser","15":"tag-inclusion","16":"tag-inclusivity","17":"tag-one-mile-walk","18":"tag-pittsburgh","19":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","20":"tag-pittsburgh-news","21":"tag-raise-funds","22":"tag-services","23":"tag-squirrel-hill","24":"tag-squirrel-hill-walk","25":"tag-walk-the-walk","26":"tag-walk4friendship","27":"tag-wightman-park"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22960","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=22960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}