{"id":264373,"date":"2026-08-13T04:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264373\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T04:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:04:24","slug":"mercy-center-for-women-breaks-fundraising-record-on-erie-gives-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264373\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercy Center for Women breaks fundraising record on Erie Gives Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One non-profit came out on top on Erie Gives Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Tuesday evening, the volunteers at Mercy Center for Women celebrated a major milestone, surpassing $500,000 in donations in a single day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Erie Gives Day 2026 kicks off;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/erie-gives-day-2026-kicks-off\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Erie Gives Day 2026 kicks off\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to Mercy Center leadership, that number breaks the record for most money raised by a non-profit in Erie Gives Day history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The record-breaking donations will benefit one of the organization&#8217;s largest projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Last fall we purchased the former Sacred Hearts school building, which we will refer to as MACC West. That is a $7.5 million campaign. The funding today will help benefit 40 individuals, their apartments that they will be living in,&#8221; said Mercy Center for Women&#8217;s Executive Director Jennie Hagerty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Erie Gives donations were accepted until midnight on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One non-profit came out on top on Erie Gives Day. On Tuesday evening, the volunteers at Mercy Center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,26938,111636],"class_list":["post-264373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-mercy-center-for-women","tag-mercy-center-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264373","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=264373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}