Big Mac sales raise $34,000 for youth Kalifa Duncan, marketing manager of McDonald’s Trinidad and Tobago. - Great Day, the flagship fundraiser of Arcos Dorados, has raised a record $34,343 for its charity, The Heroes Foundation. The money was raised from the sales of 1,290 of McDonald’s iconic Big Mac burgers. It's the most money raised since the campaign began in 2017. The funds will be handed over to The Heroes Foundation. The foundation will use it to benefit over 500 local and migrant youth in the Heroes Development Programme, Migrant Heroes Development Programme, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Trinidad and Tobago, said a media release from Lonsdale Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Ltd.