{"id":357873,"date":"2025-11-05T17:08:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/357873\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:08:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:08:36","slug":"students-get-comfy-collecting-canned-food-for-a-good-cause-in-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/357873\/","title":{"rendered":"Students get comfy collecting canned food for a good cause in Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 Valley students showed out to support community members in need \u2014 and that\u2019s Something Good. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Students at Xavier College Preparatory, a Phoenix school that usually has a dress code, can wear more comfortable clothing for a small donation to benefit St. Vincent de Paul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">When students donate canned food or money to the XCP Canned Food Drive at the start of their day, they have to get a wristband that allows them to wear \u201cSweans\u201d to class \u2014 that\u2019s their Gen Z slang for sweats or jeans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">As of Wednesday, the drive raised a total of $40,000, or 40,000 cans. Donations can be made by anyone online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xcp.org\/news-detail?pk=1399163&amp;fromId=296078#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.xcp.org\/news-detail?pk=1399163&amp;fromId=296078#\">XCP.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Know of someone or an organization doing something good in your community? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/something-good-nomination-form\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nominate them for our segment here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 Valley students showed out to support community members in need \u2014 and that\u2019s Something Good.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":357874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7182,1589,7183,39263,167335,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,174326,174325],"class_list":{"0":"post-357873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-azfamily","12":"tag-phoenix","13":"tag-phoenix-news","14":"tag-something-good","15":"tag-st-vincent-de-paul","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa","22":"tag-xavier-college-preparatory","23":"tag-xcp-canned-food-drive"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115498195558214761","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}