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Article: McDonald's Restaurants Announce Scholarship Fund to Aid Indiana Pork Producers.
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- March 8, 1999
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INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 1999--In response to the plight of Indiana's pork producers, McDonald's today announced a private initiative designed to assist college students from Indiana pork producing families.
Students from these families enrolled in a post-secondary education program for the 1999 - 2000 school year may apply for a grant from the McDonald's Pork Relief Scholarship Fund. Each grant will be $1,500.
In order to accumulate scholarship funds, approximately 300 participating McDonald's restaurants in Indiana are donating ten cents from the sale of each McRib sandwich sold from February 5 until March 25, 1999. "We anticipate that ...