Charity Partners

Lance Armstrong Foundation

Founded in 1997 by cancer survivor and champion cyclist Lance Armstrong, the Lance Armstrong Foundation unites people through programs and experiences. The Foundation empowers cancer survivors to live life on their own terms and raises awareness and funds for the fight against cancer. Unite and fight cancer at LIVESTRONG.org. [More]

A Running Start Foundation

A Running Start Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation dedicated to using the power of sports to improve the lives of youngsters in impoverished but talent-rich parts of Africa, including Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Our mission is to harness the amazing running talent in this region in order to allow African youngsters to earn U.S. university scholarships from their athletic gift and to enable more talented young athletes to earn a living from the sport. Run for our NYC Half-Marathon team and change the life of a young African runner! [More]

The Fresh Air Fund

The Fresh Air Fund, an independent, not-for-profit agency, has provided free summer vacations to more than 1.7 million New York City children from low-income communities since 1877.  Each summer, thousands of children enjoy simple summertime pleasures and experience a world outside of New York City filled with streams, lakes and trees. [More]

Team In Training®

Team In Training® (TNT) is the world’s largest endurance sports training program, providing volunteers with training to run or walk a full or half marathon, triathlon, or cycling event as well as offer support, lodging and airfare to their selected event. In exchange, participants raise funds for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, who is dedicated to curing blood related cancers and providing patient services. [More]

Girls On The Run Manhattan

GOTR Manhattan is an interactive life-skills program that uses the power of running to change the way girls see themselves and their opportunities! Our innovative health education and wellness program uniquely combines training for a 3.1 mile run/walk event with life-changing, self esteem enhancing lessons that encourage healthy habits and an active lifestyle in 8-12 year old girls. Girls learn to stretch themselves - physically, mentally, socially, and emotionally - and in the process, are inspired to a lifetime of self respect and healthy living! Girls on the Run Manhattan is an Affiliate Council of Girls on the Run International, which has a network of over 150 locations across the United States and Canada. [More]

Fertile Hope

Join our Executive Director, Lindsay Nohr Beck, and other tri-state area supporters running to “Share the Secret.” Fertile Hope’s mission is to provide reproductive information, support and hope to cancer patients and survivors whose medical treatments present the risk of infertility. The risk of infertility spans all cancers and affects both men and women, however less than 10% of oncologists inform their patients about their risks, let alone their options. This information shouldn’t be such a secret!  We are the only organization of our kind—solely dedicated to addressing cancer-related infertility and parenthood after cancer through programs that raise awareness, advance education, increase access to treatments and provide support. We deliver these programs free of charge to patients, survivors and healthcare professionals across the country. [E-Mail]

Team Continuum

We provide immediate and vital, non-medical, assistance to cancer patients and their families where the diagnosis results in disruption, hardship and uncertainty in their everyday lives. We also provide funding to health care facilities, and foundations, to enhance the delivery of care, communications and educational services for cancer patients. [More]

The Organization for Autism

The Organization for Autism is a national non profit with the mission to apply research to those currently living with autism. Join the RUN FOR AUTISM-New York Team and dedicate your effort to Raise Money, Fund Research and Change Lives. [More]

The World Lung Foundation

The World Lung Foundation was established in response to the global epidemic of lung disease, which kills 10 million people each year. The organization improves global lung health by improving local capacity to conduct research, develop public policy and deliver public health education. The organization’s areas of emphasis are tobacco control, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, asthma, and child lung health. [More]

Stoked Mentoring

Stoked's mission is to develop Successful Teens with Opportunity, Knowledge, Experience, and Determination through action sports and mentoring. STOKED is a unique non-profit organization that provides innovative mentoring programs exposing "at risk" youth and their mentors to action sports as a means to develop and foster resiliency, determination and success. Through hands-on partnerships with social service agencies, Stoked presents and oversees several programs yearly, including Snow Mentor, Skate Mentor and Surf Mentor. Responsible for developing the curriculum for each mentoring program and season, Stoked will recruit and train program mentors and coaches, hand-match mentor and mentee, manage the mentoring relationship for optimal results and oversee follow up post-season. [More]

Fred’s Team

Join Memorial Sloan-Kettering in the race against cancer by running with Fred’s Team in the upcoming 2008 NIKE NYC Half-Marathon and raising money to fight this deadly disease. Named in honor of legendary runner and creator of the New York City Marathon, Fred Lebow, Fred’s Team has raised over $32 million since its inception. For more information on Fred’s Team and how you can join – please visit our website or call 800.876.7522. [More]

The Armory Track & Field Foundation

”Keeping Kids on Track” Come join Team Armory Track. Runners Helping Runners. Located in Upper Manhattan on 168th Street, The Armory Track & Field Foundation is the busiest after-school sports location in New York City serving 150,000 young athletes, at the finest and fastest indoor track in America. Support our underserved and deserving young athletes who are taking the road to higher education; our Armory College Prep Program keeps our young runners on course to a more productive future. [More]

Standing Tall

Standing Tall was organized in 1997 by a group of parents, medical professionals and educators seeking a more powerful and integrated approach to teaching children with motor issues.  Since then, Standing Tall has grown from a six-week program for a handful of children to a full-time center serving children 1 year old -12 years old from all over the Tri-State area.  Standing Tall continues to improve its current programs and to develop new ones for this generation and the next. [More]

Animal Care & Control

Animal Care is the largest pet rescue and adoption agency in the North East, with over 43,000 animals rescued each year. Our doors are always open to over 120 animals each day that have no where else to turn or who may otherwise be on the street. Help Us Help Them.

American Cancer Society

Transform your passion for endurance race events into a lifesaving endeavor to fight cancer by joining the American Cancer Society Charity Runner program. Make your miles more meaningful by running to honor and remember those who have been touched by cancer. The American Cancer Society is the nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service. [More]

Central Park Conservancy

The Central Park Conservancy is a private, not-for-profit organization founded in 1980 that manages Central Park under a contract with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Thanks to the generosity of many individuals, corporations, foundations, and the City of New York, the Conservancy has invested more than $450 million to date into the Park making it a model for urban parks worldwide. The Conservancy provides 85% of Central Park's $26 million annual operating budget and is responsible for all basic care of the Park. [More]