{"id":634572,"date":"2026-05-10T10:46:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/634572\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T10:46:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:46:27","slug":"eagles-autism-challenge-celebrates-another-record-breaking-year-with-more-than-16-million-raised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/634572\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles Autism Challenge celebrates another record-breaking year with more than $16 million raised"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Eagles Autism Foundation<\/a> has announced that the 9th annual Eagles Autism Challenge<\/a> presented by Lincoln Financial raised more than $16 million today for innovative autism research and care programs, thanks to 6,832 participants and nearly 40,000 donations worldwide. One hundred percent of the participant-raised funds will be invested in groundbreaking research being conducted around the globe and in community grants for area-based organizations.<\/p>\n

Fundraising for the 9th annual Eagles Autism Challenge will continue through Sunday, May 31, 2026. Since the inaugural event in 2018, more than 240,000 donations have contributed to the $56 million raised through the Eagles Autism Foundation.<\/p>\n

“The connection we share with Eagles fans is special and today was just another example of that,” said Jeffrey Lurie, Chairman and CEO, Philadelphia Eagles. “More than 6,800 people from around the world descended upon Philadelphia this weekend to join our organization in celebrating and advocating for the autism community. The $16 million raised from today’s event will go on to support cutting-edge autism research and care for individuals and families in need. We were all part of the same team today and it was everyone’s contributions \u2013 players, coaches, legends, participants, donors, and sponsors \u2013 that led to another record-breaking year for the Eagles Autism Challenge.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Eagles Autism Foundation has announced that the 9th annual Eagles Autism Challenge presented by Lincoln Financial raised…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[59978,4,450,274123,240053,451,3,59979,59980,452,453],"class_list":["post-634572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-all-news-archived","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eagles-autism-challenge","tag-eagles-autism-foundation","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-nfl-com-feature","tag-team-roster-content","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634572","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=634572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}