This morning, The Penn State Dance Marathon released their 2009 fundraising summary, detailing the specifics of their finances for the 2009 fiscal year (which we highlighted yesterday). The charity raised $7,596,744.90, $106,000 more than announced at the conclusion of THON weekend. A breakdown of the fundraising and allocations can be found in the charts at […]
Thanks to a commenter named Steve on an earlier post about THON being featured on NBC’s Today Show, we’ve been able to locate the segment. I was a little disappointed that it didn’t air last week, but the piece does a pretty good job explaining THON and showing how awesome it is.
While our THON is over, if you recall from a post OS had a few weeks ago, other schools have dance marathons. In fact, the second longest running one, next to ours, is held at Northwestern University. Held from March 6th to the 8th, aka next weekend (Shortened months are a bitch, right?), they have […]
THON got some recognition from Washington yesterday. Representative Glenn Thompson made a two-minute speech in the House of Representatives on Tuesday commending Penn State for THON. Thompson is a Republican representative for Pennsylvania’s fifth district. We Penn Staters’ have a saying; ‘WE ARE PENN STATE’, but Madam Speaker, as you can see, it goes without […]