About World Runners

The Organization

World Runners is an international organization of runners with headquarters in Greenbrae, California. Members of World Runners organize and participate in races and other athletic events in the U.S. and internationally to be messengers for a better world and to raise funding for projects related to the advancement of health, prosperity, and peace in local communities and in the communities of the world.

Major Milestones

During the past 20 years, World Runners has helped people, foremost women and children, to improve the quality of their lives.

Major World Runners milestones include the Moscow Peace Marathons through the 1980's. One thousand runners raised two million dollars for organizations combating world hunger. The message of a joint U.S.-Soviet partnership for a better world reached hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

The Save the Children Relays involved 25,000 participants who raised over $1 million for child health programs in the U.S. and internationally. Over 100,000 children were immunized against fatal childhood diseases. Two transcontinental relays carried the child survival messages throughout the U.S. and 10 other nations, gaining proclamations from scores of national, state and local governments.

Other major fundraising campaigns raised over $4 million through teams running for pledges at the Boston, Oakland, New York and other major marathons, as well as hundreds of other large and small events.

At the beginning of the New Millennium, World Runners reemerged as an organization under the charter of Global Partners for Development. World Runners is adding to past accomplishments and recapturing the spirit of advancing the quality of life in the communities of the world.

Mission

World Runners is an organization of runners committed to the advancement of health, prosperity, and peace in the communities of the world.

World Runners' purpose is to advance life-long fitness of its members while making a difference in the world.

The funds raised by running for pledges and accepting donations supports programs that transform the conditions for women and children in the world in the areas of health and education. Internationally we sponsor secondary education of girls in the Maasai highlands of East Africa and microfinance in Central America. Some of the proceeds from local fund raising events, like the Run for a Healthy World, are given to selected local charities.