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That's JUST THIS YEAR. 7.8 million - exceeds any other college-student-run charity in the world by a ridiculous amount.
What's sad is that the "#1 party school" got coverage everywhere, and yet "#1 philanthropy" and "almost 8 million dollars in one year" only really gets covered in Pittsburgh - a lot of year the Philly papers don't even bother, or bury it somewhere, and the rest of the country -- you won't hear a peep.
Another thing to point out is that the money is first earmarked to ensure that kids with cancer at Hershey Medical Center don't end up bankrupting their families, which is especially important now, with vile insurance companies and a screwed up health care system. After that, the Marathon pays for satellite clinics in far-flung towns like State College, so families whose kids have cancer don't have to drive 2 hours for chemo, and then part of it goes to building a whole new pediatric cancer wing at the Hershey Medical Center.
The young people who started this were smart, narrowing their beneficiaries down to one (from several) and choosing a good cause that everyone in the state is happy to support.
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