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Team in Training®
Why not make this exciting event the experience of a lifetime? Join our Team in Training® Program. You'll train with the team for four to six months, receive quality coaching and be matched with a local cancer survivor who'll motivate you every step of the way. Part of your reward will come from knowing that the funds you raise are helping The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's fight against blood cancers. Seventy- six percent of all monies raised support research to find treatments and ultimately, cures for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma.
To find out more about Team In Training, call the Northern Ohio Chapter at 216-910-1245 or 800-589-5721, or visit www.teamintraining.org/noh.
Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF)
The mission of the MMRF is to relentlessly pursue innovative means that accelerate the development of next-generation multiple myeloma treatments to extend the lives of patients and lead to a cure. As the world's number-one private funder of multiple myeloma research, the MMRF has raised more than $130 million since its inception to fund more than 120 laboratories worldwide. An outstanding 93 percent of funds raised go toward research and related programming. To learn more visit: www.themmrf.org.
Please join us at the Cleveland Marathon, Half Marathon and the 5K to Benefit the MMRF ! Click here to learn more and to join the MMRF Cleveland Marathon / Half Marathon Team. Click here to join the Cleveland 5K to Benefit the MMRF
Thinking Beyond Borders
Thinking Beyond Borders is a non-profit organization that takes graduating high school seniors around the world for 8 months to study the AIDS epidemic in South Africa, sustainable agriculture in India, public education in China, environmental conservation in Vietnam, and clean water issues in Ecuador. In each country, students live with families, work with local organizations, study with top professors, and meet with various politicians to develop a broad perspective of the issues. The goal is to attack global issues at the absolute seed by creating a new generation of leaders who understand how to investigate and solve complex global issues.
We believe that the next generation of leaders will come from a variety of ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds, and citizenships, and we strive to provide our educational program for everyone through the TBB Scholarship Fund. Every penny you raise will be used to support students in need. Please help by participating in this event and click here to donate or run on our behalf.
Runners Feeding Others
Runners Feeding Others is a community of runners, walkers, and supporters that participate in area races to raise donations for the food programs of First Grace in Akron, OH. Through various programs, First Grace feeds over 25,000 people in Northeast Ohio each year and the donations raised through Runners Feeding Others are the main source of support for these activities. The most unique of the programs at First Grace is the "People's Choice Food Pantry" which allows for the hungry to 'shop' for their food almost like they are in a grocery store with the exception being that there is no cost for the items that they receive.
Please consider joining our team for the Cleveland Marathon (and future races) by checking out our website and sending an email to steve@runnersfeedingothers.com. By joining our team you will be helping to feed those in our area (our neighbors and friends) that for whatever reason have found themselves in a situation where they are unable to provide food for themselves and their families.
Run for Autism
The Organization for Autism Research (OAR) is a national, nonprofit organization formed and led by relatives of children and adults with autism and Asperger Syndrome. OAR is dedicated to promoting research that can be applied to help families, educators, caregivers, and individuals with autism find much-needed answers to their immediate and urgent questions. OAR funds applied research that will make a difference in individual lives; provides information that is timely, useful, and cost-efficient; and offers opportunities for the autism community to collaborate and make advances together.
Since 2003, OAR has awarded more than $1.7 million in new research grants and published five community-friendly resource guides in its Life Journey through Autism series.
The RUN FOR AUTISM is OAR's signature fundraising effort. By joining the team, you receive a training log, personal web page, fundraising support, and a race shirt. You can be a part of the 2009 RUN FOR AUTISM - Cleveland team even if you're already registered for the event. Please visit our website at for more information.
Little Jason Childhood Cancer Foundation
The Little Jason Childhood Cancer Foundation (LJCCF), a non-profit organization, is dedicated to bring relief to families and joy to their sick children as they do battle with cancer. The LJCCF is in the process of furnishing a local hospital’s pediatric cancer floor with a fitness room so the families have an outlet to maintain a healthy life style and manage the stress involved with a child fighting cancer.
In addition, the LJCCF works with local hospitals to provide meals to families who are staying in the hospital as their child undergoes cancer treatment. The Little Jason Childhood Cancer Foundation Team individually raise funds that will support the fitness room project currently underway at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital and to continue our meal program. Our team will be walking and running in the 2010 Rite Aid Cleveland Half Marathon. Please help by joining our team by clicking here or making a donation. For additional information, please visit the foundation's website.
The Prayers from Maria Foundation
The Prayers from Maria Foundation is dedicated to funding global research into the causes, prevention, treatments, and cure for the deadliest childhood brain tumors known as gliomas. We strive to raise public awareness about gliomas and bring hope to children and their families who deal with the hardships of this disease.
We have formed the Sunflower Striders team who are striding to assure all children experience life as a marathon! To help us accomplish this mission, please join our team to help us '"fund a cure" for gliomas! For more information, please visit www.prayersfrommaria.org.
The ITP Foundation
The ITP Foundation is a nonprofit focusing on ITP (Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura), a rare bleeding disorder, in children and adolescents. We seek to raise awareness, fund vital medical research and provide financial assistance to the families of children who suffer from ITP. In the past three years, the ITP Foundation donated $70,000 to medical research for ITP causes and treatments.
TEAM Stephanie was created in 2009 in memory of Stephanie Lyn Lufkin, a girl from Cleveland who sadly passed away from complications due to ITP. Click here to donate and learn more about Stephanie and the ITP Foundation. To join, visit our Facebook page. Click here to watch a special video about TEAM Stephanie's participation in the Cleveland Marathon.
MedWorks
MedWorks is a non-profit organization committed to improving access to healthcare for Northeast Ohio's uninsured and underinsured. MedWorks provides an innovative vehicle through which healthcare providers, corporate sponsors and other volunteers can provide free healthcare, education and other services. To learn more visit www.medworksusa.org.
Please join our team at the Cleveland Marathon! As a local organization, your donations will directly help Northeast Ohio's uninsured and underinsured to access much-needed health care. Click Here to donate and learn more about how to join the MedWorks team. If you have any questions, please contact Julie Namy at Julie@medworksusa.org or call (216) 231-5350.
The Salvation Army of Greater Cleveland
As a leader in faith-based human services, The Salvation Army is committed to serve the whole person, body, soul and spirit, with integrity and respect, using creative solutions to positively transform lives. Whether it is food and shelter for a displaced family, day care and afterschool learning opportunities to substance abuse detoxification and rehabilitation services – The Salvation Army has been providing social and spiritual services to communities throughout Greater Cleveland for nearly 140 years.
In Greater Cleveland, The Salvation Army is one of the most efficient organizations, with approximately 90 cents of every dollar raised going directly to helping those in need. To join The Salvation Army Cleveland Marathon team call 216-623-7485 or visit our website.
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Children's Tumor Foundation
In support of the Children's Tumor Foundation, the NF Endurance Team offers the opportunity for individuals to participate in endurance sports, to raise money for research, promote awareness, and provide a network of caring support for those suffering with Neurofibromatosis and their families.
Neurofibromatosis (NF) is a genetic disorder that causes tumors to grow randomly throughout the body on nerve endings. NF occurs in one in 3,000 births – more than Cystic Fibrosis, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, and Huntington’s Disease combined. There is no cure.
The Children’s Tumor Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to ending Neurofibromatosis through research. To join the NF Endurance Team, please call 1-800-323-7938 X251 or visit our website.
The Up Side of Downs of Greater Cleveland
The Up Side of Downs of Greater Cleveland provides support, education, and advocacy for individuals with Down syndrome, their families and communities throughout Northeast Ohio. Currently we support more than 1,200 families and hundreds more educators & medical professionals.
Run MS
While you may not know what it feels like living with multiple sclerosis, you can make a move that will affect the lives of those who do. Every day, we're moving closer to the cure. But we can't do it without you. By joining Run MS, you become a part of the powerful movement that will end MS forever!
Join the National MS Society at the Cleveland Marathon and run to create a world free of MS. Run MS participants can participate in the marathon, half-marathon, 10k, or 5ks event during the Cleveland Marathon, all while raising money for the National MS Society.
Benefits of Run MS include:
- Downloadable training guide
- Run MS training shirt
- Run MS incentives - such as: race day technical running shirt, pre-race pasta dinner, race registration fee reimbursement
- Personal fundraising page
- Support from National MS Society staff and volunteers
- Opportunity to run in honor of those with MS
Join Run MS - You can be a part of Run MS by registering to participate or by sponsoring someone. If you would like more information about Run MS - contact us at 800-667-7131.
Operation Jack Autism Foundation
Operation Jack is an attempt by Sam Felsenfeld to run 60 full marathons in 2010 to raise money and nationwide awareness for Train 4 Autism. Train 4 Autism is a foundation dedicated to bringing together a community of athletes, physically active, and socially-conscious people who are committed to raising awareness and funds for research and treatment for those living with Autism and their families. Fund raising and volunteer opportunities for individual athletes, teams and entire families include marathons, half marathons 10Ks, 5Ks, walks, triathlons, swimming and cycling events.
Sam, a married father of three, named Operation Jack after his 6-year-old son Jack, who is severely autistic, and is attempting this endeavor in his honor.
St. Judes Children's Research Hospital
In 2009, more than 2,900 Heroes raised $2.38 million for the children of St. Jude. As a St. Jude Hero, your efforts will inspire hope in children who are battling cancer and other catastrophic childhood diseases.
Join the St. Jude Heroes team. Form a Heroes fundraising team comprised of friends, family or coworkers or sign up and raise funds as an individual Hero. Run or walk for those that can't-the patients of St. Jude. You will make a difference in the lives of children fighting cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. St. Jude is proud to announce that $0.81 to every dollar goes directly to our cause of finding cures and saving children!
As a St. Jude Hero, we provide you with the fundraising and training resources needed to achieve your personal fitness goal. These resources include: personalized fundraising Web page, e-newsletters with fundraising and training tips, and St. Jude patient stories and motivational support from St. Jude representatives.
American Cancer Society DetermiNation Program
You can save lives with every mile you conquer! Training for an endurance race is a huge commitment, but by joining the American Cancer Society DetermiNation endurance event program you can help save lives. Join our nation of athletes determined to save lives by dedicating your training and race participation to fight a disease that has already taken too many lives. With every step you take and every mile you conquer, you'll be helping create a world with less cancer and more birthdays.
The American Cancer Society DetermiNation endurance event program will provide the support, training, and fundraising tools you need to achieve your personal victory - first to raise funds that will help save lives, and then to cross the finish line on race day. Over the years, thousands of athletes have had an experience of a lifetime while raising millions for the fight against all types of cancer. With every step taken and every mile conquered, these determined athletes are helping create a world with less cancer and more birthdays.
Click here or call us at 888.227.6446 x1333 to learn how to make every mile meaningful!
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Ehlers - Danlos Network Cares Foundation
Please help the Ehlers-Danlos Network CARES Foundation start the race to find a cure for Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS). Join the EDS Network CARES Race for Research team at the Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon.
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is a connective tissue disorder. Connective tissues support the skin, bones, blood vessels, and other organs. Although EDS is not rare, it is very underdiagnosed. EDS currently has no cure, or unfortunately even a single means of treatment! Luckily there is a researcher at Johns Hopkins Medical Institute ready to help us start the race and find a treatment. We need your help to fund this research and give those suffering from EDS the gift of hope. For more information on Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and the research please visit www.ehlersdanlosnetwork.org Help us start the race for EDS treatment and bring us One Step Closer To The Cure.
ALS Family Charitable Foundation
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, A.L.S., commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, is a progressive, fatal neuromuscular disease, robbing those affected of voluntary muscle movement (walking, talking, getting dressed, holding your head up, speaking etc.) and making every breath a struggle.
The A.L.S. Family Charitable Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to raising funds for cutting edge research and patient services for those suffering from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
We’ve lost our family members to this terrible disease and while we can’t provide a cure, we can offer support to others living through the same experience. The financial and emotional devastation on families is immeasurable. Please consider joining our fight against Lou Gehrig’s Disease by participating in this year's Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon. For more information about our Foundation visit our website.
Girls on the Run of Stark County
Joining SoleMates is a great way for you to make a difference for the Stark County chapter of Girls on the Run®. You can walk, run or bike in any event of your choice and raise funds for our organization. With your support, the message of health and wellness that Girls on the Run brings will continue to spread and grow.
Girls on the Run® is a life-changing learning program for girls age eight to 13. The programs combine training for a 3.1 mile running event with self-esteem enhancing, uplifting workouts. The goals of the programs are to encourage positive emotional, social, mental, spiritual and physical development.
To find out more about joining SoulMates, contact the Stark County GOTR chapter at 330-936-7000 or visit www.girlsontherunsolemates.org or www.gotrstarkcty.org
The Fuller Center for Housing
The Fuller Center for Housing was started in 2005 by Millard Fuller, who also founded Habitat for Humanity, as a non-profit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. It promotes innovative partnerships in an unrelenting quest to provide adequate shelter for every person on the planet. A Fuller Center home is a hand up, and not a hand out, meaning that homeowners roll up their sleeves and work alongside volunteers, repaying construction costs on interest-free terms they can handle with no profit to The Fuller Center. One of the many ways
The Fuller Center for Housing reaches out to communities is through the annual Fuller Center Bicycle Adventure. The third-annual journey in summer 2010 will pass through Cleveland en route from Niagara Falls to New Orleans, as riders join for the whole way, a day, or a week long segment. Throughout this fully-supported summer cross-country ride, volunteers put down their bikes and pick up hammers to help local FC partners build and repair homes. This trip is not only a great adventure for the cyclists, it also raises funds and awareness for Fuller Center projects. Sounds interesting? Check out the Fuller Center website to find out how you can join in!
The Family Child Learning Center
The Family Child Learning Center (FCLC) provides Early Intervention and Preschool programming for children with Autism, as well as family support and resources, while collecting data for research and program development. Autism touches 1 in 100 children in the US today. Once faced with a diagnosis, the search is on for programs that will help your child and family move forward. FCLC is one program, local to Northeast Ohio that changes lives!
“We were introduced to FCLC by an Akron Children’s Hospital’s Speech Pathologist when our son, Joey, was diagnosed with Autism in 2007. Since that referral, we have been able to connect with the resources at FCLC and watch our son’s language and communication skills explode. FCLC has given Joey, and our family, the tools to overcome the daily challenges we face. Local resources are so few and far between and FCLC is Northeast Ohio’s ‘diamond in the rough’!!” – Melissa Cheney
The FCLC is sponsored by Akron Children's Hospital in conjunction with Kent State University. Click here to support Team FCLC.
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is the world's leader in the search for a cure for cystic fibrosis. The Foundation funds more CF research than any other organization and nearly every CF drug available today was made possible because of Foundation support The Northern Ohio Chapter raises funds locally in support of the mission of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation; to assure the development of the means to cure and control cystic fibrosis and to improve the quality of life for those with the disease.
