{"id":484578,"date":"2026-02-22T22:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/484578\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T22:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:35:07","slug":"penn-state-thon-2026-raises-record-breaking-18-8-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/484578\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State THON 2026 raises record-breaking $18.8 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. \u2014 Penn State THON 2026 has raised $18,841,726.53 for Four Diamonds at Penn State Health Golisano Children\u2019s Hospital. This surpasses THON 2025\u2019s record-breaking total of $17,737,040.93 by more than $1.1 million. <\/p>\n<p>More than 700 students danced and stood without sleep for 46 hours during THON Weekend \u2014 from 6 p.m. Feb. 20 through 4 p.m. Feb. 22 \u2014 at the Bryce Jordan Center (BJC) on the University Park campus. <\/p>\n<p>As the world\u2019s largest student-run philanthropy, THON raises millions of dollars each year for Four Diamonds, funding pediatric cancer research and supporting children and families fighting childhood cancer. Since 1977, THON has raised more than $272 million for Four Diamonds. To learn more about THON and its impact, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/thon.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">thon.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. \u2014 Penn State THON 2026 has raised $18,841,726.53 for Four Diamonds at Penn State Health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-484578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484578","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=484578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}