{"id":77313,"date":"2026-01-04T01:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/77313\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T01:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:59:10","slug":"pittsburgh-penguins-foundation-reports-6-1m-invested-into-the-community-in-the-past-year-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/77313\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation reports $6.1M invested into the community in the past year \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation released its 2024-25 Community Impact Report on Friday, revealing over $7.5 million raised in the past year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The report highlights more than $6.1 million invested in more than 200 local organizations, along with over $520,000 in grants and 250 scholarships awarded to local students. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Major fundraising sources reportedly contributed to this effort, including more than $650,000 from a 50\/50 raffle, more than $5 million from auctions and around $1.3 million from various events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Penguins Foundation aims to foster youth hockey access and sustainability in the region. The organization partnered with 29 rinks to host the Little Penguins Learn to Play Hockey program this past year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Additionally, more than 1,450 young girls participated in local hockey initiatives, including Pittsburgh Pennies Girl\u2019s Hockey. The Foundation also offered free floor hockey programs to 22 public school districts through its PensFIT Ball Hockey initiative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The year saw Carnegie One library\u2019s gymnasium reopen, funded by the Penguins Foundation, and a $100,000 grant allowed the Kamin Science Center to launch its new exhibition, Sports360, showcasing the science of hockey players\u2019 athletic performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Educational programming supported by the Foundation includes a Mental Wellness Conference focused on student athletes, Reading Champions in partnership with U.S. Steel, the PPS All-Stars program and the Science Champions initiative. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Several Penguins players engaged in charitable initiatives, including Sidney Crosby with his charity suite, Kevin Hayes with Hayes\u2019 Heroes and Evgeni Malkin with the \u201cI\u2019m Score for Kids\u201d program.<\/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\">\u00a92026 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 The Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation released its 2024-25 Community Impact Report on Friday, revealing over $7.5 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[524,15868,18690,15626,10091,5158,7327,39682,35495,1718,39681,4843,594,1902,73,75,74,11991,11753,87,9746,2920,78],"class_list":["post-77313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-community","tag-donation","tag-foundation","tag-fund","tag-funds","tag-hockey","tag-impact","tag-initiative","tag-invest","tag-investment","tag-invset","tag-nhl","tag-organization","tag-penguins","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-player","tag-program","tag-report","tag-scholarship","tag-support","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77313","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=77313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}