{"id":423623,"date":"2026-01-22T20:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/423623\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T20:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:59:16","slug":"paige-bueckers-pledges-50000-to-help-children-and-families-in-hopkins-twin-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/423623\/","title":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers pledges $50,000 to help children and families in Hopkins \u2013 Twin Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paige Bueckers, the burgeoning WNBA superstar from Hopkins, has pledged a $50,000 matching donation to the Hopkins Strong Relief Fund to support children and families struggling with \u201cthe heightened stress and uncertainty\u201d in her home state.<\/p>\n<p>Bueckers was the WNBA\u2019s Rookie of the Year last summer after averaging 19.2 points, 5.4 assists and 1.6 steals in her first professional season with the Dallas Wings. The Hopkins Education Foundation announced Bueckers\u2019 donation in a release Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Hopkins Strong is a partnership between the Hopkins Education Foundation and the ICA Food Shelf to support the Hopkins Public Schools community. According to the release, Hopkins Education Foundation has raised $50,000 \u201cand, with Paige\u2019s help, hopes to reach $250,000 total to provide ongoing support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith families in Paige\u2019s childhood school district (especially immigrant families) facing food insecurity and struggling with rent and utilities due to the heightened stress and uncertainty in our state, Paige committed her matching donation to the #HopkinsStrong Relief Fund this week,\u201d Hopkins Education Foundation said in its release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers, the burgeoning WNBA superstar from Hopkins, has pledged a $50,000 matching donation to the Hopkins Strong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[1077,2833,99,18068,434],"class_list":["post-423623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-sports","tag-uncategorized","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}