Join the World Runners Team at the Oakland CA Marathon 3/28
Submitted by WRAdmin01 on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 04:52. |
You may know us best for the Run for a Healthy World races that we produce. The races are one of the ways we raise funds to support the World Runners Charitable Program. The World Runners Team also runs for pledges in other events, like the Oakland Marathon, as another source of funds for the Charitable Program.
In 1980 a team of 170 World Runners ran in the Oakland Marathon. We made a movie of it, take a look! Now, 30 years later, the Oakland Marathon is back! |
Run for a Healthy World Results - All Years, All Locations
Submitted by WRAdmin01 on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 03:23.
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We now have a race series! Well, if two make a series that's what we have. Adding to our popular Run for a Healthy World at the Palo Alto Baylands on New Year's Day the new addition to the series is at the Sunnyvale Baylands Park on Labor Day. The fist Sunnyvale event was run this past Labor Day. Both races are run on very scenic, "dead flat", USAT&F certified, courses, over baylands levees and through marsh lands on mostly dirt roads. Look for a third event in the series in the spring of 2011. Race results and photos for all year's and location's are available. The results and photos for the 2010 New Year's Day Run for a Healthy World are included. Information about age graded results with an age graded results calculator. This is fun to experiment with.
The proceeds from these runs supported the education of young women in Africa, microfinance in Central America and locally the Second Harvest Food Bank and The Health Trust. |
World Runners - What We Are About
Submitted by WRAdmin01 on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 23:25.|
World Runners is unique among nonprofit institutions. The organization is interested in the fitness of both its members and its beneficiaries. However, there is a difference in emphasis on the type of fitness between the two groups. Physical fitness is the main interest for the member and financial fitness for the beneficiaries.
World Runners was founded in 1977 by a group of runners with a mission to make a difference in the world. The difference to make? To end the existence of hunger and poverty in the world. If we were going to go to all the effort to run a marathon or a 10k race, for example, we wanted it to count for more than just thousands of steps. We wanted our running to make a lasting difference in the world as well. It became increasingly clear that poverty was one of the prime reasons for the persistence of hunger. People with means seemed to be able to feed themselves regardless of where they lived. The key link in the persistence of hunger seemed to be poverty and people lacking economic empowerment. And, what better way to end poverty than through microcredit and education. World Runners' charitable program supports the education of young women in Africa, microfinance in Central America and locally the Second Harvest Food Bank and The Health Trust. |
