Resource Fairs Entice Sponsors and Draw People to Your Event
If you’re planning a charity walk, run, or ride and you’re looking for ways to attract sponsors and participants, consider adding a resource fair to your event. When I was planning my first Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk, one of my committee members suggested this to me, and it proved to be a key factor in [...]
CAMA Coalition’s 4th Annual Teen Bike Rally
Methamphetamine abuse is becoming all too common these days among youth, so I was so happy to read about the Coalition Against Methamphetamine Abuse and its mission to prevent and reduce the impact of all substances, especially methamphetamine. Since its inception in 2001, over 10,000 educational brochures have been distributed in venues such as community [...]
Pathways Center 5K Run/Walkathon to Benefit Chicago’s Children
Pathways Center, a non-profit organization providing physical, occupational, and speech/language assessment and therapy to those in need, has been serving children and families in the Chicago area since 1985. Pathways Center also strives to promote functional independence, emotional health, social well-being, and integration into the community through community education, professional in-services, mentoring, and continuing education [...]
Girls On The Run – Chicago Spring 5K
Here’s another fun summer athletic charity event in the Windy City. Girls On The Run is a cool organization that seeks to build girls’ self-esteem and well-being to help them make good choices in life. In this event, hundreds of young Chicagoland girls will run a 5K together with other participants to celebrate their “girl [...]
Out of the Darkness Overnight Walk: Chicago, Illinois
The more I learn about athletic charity events in Chicago, the more I realize why they are so successful here and why Chicago is chosen as a location for national events. On the website for the Out of the Darkness Overnight Walk, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention describes the Chicago walk route as being [...]
Climate Cycle: The Ride
Here’s a cool event in the Chicago area I had not heard of before. Climate Cycle: The Ride is taking place this Saturday, May 9, 2009 to raise money to install solar panels on local public schools as well as support green energy education in the classroom. By doing so, energy costs will be lowered [...]
6th Annual Run for the Kids to Benefit Easter Seals
Easter Seals has been around for so long that sometimes this great organization gets lost in the shuffle. A pioneer in the support of children with disabilities, Easter Seals provides resources and programs for families dealing with disabilities so they can achieve independence and an enhanced quality of life.
Easter Seals is holding a special event [...]
Chicagoans to Break the Silence on Ovarian Cancer
It’s not an easy subject to discuss. I think the first time I heard about ovarian cancer was when Gilda Radner died of the disease in 1989 at the age of 42; her death raised awareness of the disease and the need for better ways to detect and treat it.
Six years later, the National Ovarian [...]
Walk Now for Autism in Chicago
Just a few weeks after moving to the Chicago area, I’m already finding great athletic charity events taking place in the Windy City. It turns out that all I have to do is read my Chicago Tribune every morning with my cup of coffee and keep an eye out for events!
I spotted one this morning that looked like [...]
Greetings from the Windy City
First of all, I want to apologize to all the great members of Charity Mile for not posting in awhile. The last few weeks have been extremely busy as I made a cross-country move from Southern Utah to the Chicago area. Add to that some significant challenges getting hooked up to the Internet again and [...]
