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Non-profit Beneficiaries
Fundraising + Fitness = A Stronger Community
Best wishes to all of the non-profit organizations planning to participate as beneficiaries of the 25th annual Syracuse Festival of Races on Sunday, October 1, 2017 at Manley Field House on the Syracuse University campus!
Has your organization considered conducting its own event but worried that you don't have the time, funds, staff, or volunteers to do it?
What if organizing and conducting the event were taken care of for you?
The Syracuse Festival of Races offers non-profit organizations the opportunity to plug their mission into the infrastructure of an established national caliber event.
The Festival of Races provides:
- An event for every pace, with four exciting race morning events:
- Men's 5K
- MVP Health Care� Women's 5K
- 3K Fun & Fitness Run
- Tops Friendly Markets Community Walk
- A nationally renowned course, completely closed to traffic
- Your organization's name listed on the registration website
- Two thousand participating athletes, volunteers, and spectators
- The excitement of CNY's only road race national championship
- Event marketing, registration, and publicity
- All event volunteers
- Free booth space for participating nonprofits
- Great participant amenities
How can your organization be part of the Festival in 2017?
- Register your organization here when 2017 SFoR registration opens to be listed as an event nonprofit beneficiary.
- Reach Out! After you sign up, visit the SFoR CrowdRise page, where you can set up an easy web-based fundraising page. You'll have the industry's best fundraising tools at your fingertips to boost your fundraising income. Solicit your contacts. Build a team. And offer incentives.
- Run or Walk! Get fit and celebrate your fundraising at the silver anniversary edition of the Syracuse Festival of Races, Sunday, October 1st, 2017.
- Receive! Your organization will keep 100% of the funds your supporters raise as well as donations from runners and walkers who select your organization as their beneficiary at the time of registration.
- Men's 5K
- MVP Health Care� Women's 5K
- 3K Fun & Fitness Run
- Tops Friendly Markets Community Walk
How can your organization be part of the Festival in 2017?
- Register your organization here when 2017 SFoR registration opens to be listed as an event nonprofit beneficiary.
- Reach Out! After you sign up, visit the SFoR CrowdRise page, where you can set up an easy web-based fundraising page. You'll have the industry's best fundraising tools at your fingertips to boost your fundraising income. Solicit your contacts. Build a team. And offer incentives.
- Run or Walk! Get fit and celebrate your fundraising at the silver anniversary edition of the Syracuse Festival of Races, Sunday, October 1st, 2017.
- Receive! Your organization will keep 100% of the funds your supporters raise as well as donations from runners and walkers who select your organization as their beneficiary at the time of registration.
Participant Information
3K School Groups
3K Fun & Fitness Run School Group Participation
For more info call Dave Oja at :
315-446-6285
The 3K Fun & Fitness Run at the Syracuse Festival of Races was actually born six years prior to the 1993 birth of the SFoR. The non-competitive event was run in 1987 as a 5K Fun & Fitness Run that was held in Onondaga Lake Park in conjunction with the Syracuse Freihofer's Run for Women 10K.
When the Syracuse Freihofer's Run for Women was discontinued following the sale of the Freihofer Baking Company in 1992, one of the key drivers for the creation of the Syracuse Festival of Races was the desire of the Oja family and the Syracuse Chargers Track Club's board of directors to keep the enormously popular and beneficial 3K Fun & Fitness Run alive.
While the 3K Fun & Fitness Run is open to and enjoyed by individual walkers and runners as well as groups, school group participation has long been the heart of the event. Individual school buildings--elementary, middle, K through 8, and high school--have all enjoyed participating in the name of their schools and school communities.
Participating school groups have included students, older siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, teachers, principals, and non-teaching support staff. Schools are recognized not for how fast they cover the 3K (1.86-mile) course, but rather for how many members of the school community make the commitment to personal, family, and community fitness through aerobic exercise.
All participating school groups of 15 or more receive a framed certificate of excellence suitable for display in their school. The three largest school groups each year are recognized with special plaques. The largest school group from a Syracuse City School District school earns the right to host the rotating Syracuse Festival of Races "Boys & Girls Cup" for the coming year. The largest school group from a non-Syracuse City School District school earns the right to host of the rotating Syracuse Festival of Races "Festival Cup" for the coming year. And the largest school group overall is invited to create the design for the subsequent year's 3K Fun & Fitness Run participant T-shirt.
Faculty, administrators, and parents agree that building a school group and participating together in a celebratory and non-competitive aerobic event is an extremely effective way to foster cooperative interaction among children, teachers, parents, and school staff in a setting entirely removed from the school itself. It's a great community building activity; it's a great goal-setting activity; it's a great antidote to sedentary behavior; and it's an exciting way to start the school year.
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