{"id":62044,"date":"2025-12-16T05:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/62044\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T05:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:56:07","slug":"local-mcdonalds-raise-more-than-50k-for-high-school-sports-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/62044\/","title":{"rendered":"Local McDonald\u2019s raise more than $50K for high school sports \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH  \u2014 Area McDonald\u2019s restaurants raised more than $50,000 for high school sports during a fundraising campaign. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The fast food chain says restaurants across Western Pennsylvania raised $53,511.64 during a one-day fundraiser back in October. During the High School Sports Digital Fundraiser Day, 10% of digital sales made through the McDonald\u2019s app benefited athletic programs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cWe are proud to have these connections in the communities that we serve,\u201d Pittsburgh McDonald\u2019s Owner\/Operator Twila Mezan said. \u201cWe\u2019re thankful for everyone who came out to support their local high schools and help us make the High School Sports Digital Fundraiser Day a success throughout the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Each of the participating restaurants selected a high school in their community to donate to, with each school getting a minimum of $250. <\/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 Area McDonald\u2019s restaurants raised more than $50,000 for high school sports during a fundraising campaign. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16877,16878,4030,4549,60,653,14112,5367,16879,16880,9256,1515,16881,16882,16883,16884,1396,16885,16886,7685,16887,5680,10686,799,4041,16888,73,75,74,4047,976,436,16889,5378,3571,16890,16817,16891,16892,5384],"class_list":["post-62044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-advertisement","tag-american-culture","tag-blue","tag-branding","tag-business","tag-cafe","tag-clear-sky","tag-commercial-sign","tag-copy-space","tag-copyspace","tag-fast-food","tag-food","tag-food-and-drinkbusiness","tag-food-chain","tag-global-business","tag-hamburger","tag-industry","tag-insignia","tag-intellectual-property","tag-isolated","tag-junk-food","tag-logo","tag-marketing","tag-mcdonalds","tag-no-people","tag-nobody","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-red","tag-restaurant","tag-retail","tag-retail-business","tag-sign","tag-sky","tag-store","tag-sweden","tag-take-out-food","tag-unhealthy-eating","tag-yellow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62044","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=62044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}