My name is Jennifer Cook and I am the Executive Director of the Katie Caples Foundation. The Katie Caples Foundation works to educate and raise awareness about organ donation and transplantation with the mission to increase the number of registered organ donors and reduce the wait for the more than 122,000 adults and children in […]
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Team, Today, October 11th, is International Day of the Girl. Join us in celebrating and supporting girls around the world ALL WEEK with our IDG Challenge, in support of our charity partner, Girl Up! Girl Up’s mission is to ensure that adolescent girls can go to school, see a doctor, participate in their communities, and
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Thank you to everyone who joined our sponsor Humana to Carry the Baton in support of Baton Rouge disaster relief. Once again, our Charity Miles community proved that we are up to the challenge when it comes to supporting an amazing cause! We wanted to take this moment to thank all of you and announce
I did it! I finished my thru-hike this morning in Harper’s Ferry!!!
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Last month we highlighted Charity Miles Champion Eric Rubinson, co-founder of Track Friday, a national movement to turn the day after Thanksgiving into a day focused on giving and not just getting. Track Friday started in 2012 as a local event to support Hurricane Sandy relief efforts in New Jersey but has grown into a
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I first started running to get back in shape. After 10 over-scheduled years in DC, I needed to take a break from the happy hours, brunches, and drinking that filled my social calendar. But running soon became a time during which I could experience true solitude in a city of over 600,000. Running (and racing)
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In southern Louisiana, relief efforts are well underway and the community has come together to support each other in an inspiring show of spirit that could not be dampened by the summer’s devastating floods. As the end of summer drifts into fall, the people of Baton Rouge have begun to live their new version of
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Just one month ago torrential rains left much of southern Louisiana devastated and under water. An unfathomable 6.9 trillion gallons of water pummeled the area in a matter of days leaving $8.7 billion in damages in its wake. By now you have likely seen images of the Baton Rouge community in the process of picking
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This week’s Charity Miles Champion is Kim Frum. She’s a Hogwarts Running Club Member with a big heart. See how she got started on her journey to #somuchgood. My name is Kim Frum, and I started running in the summer of 2005. I was training for my first 5K in Gettysburg. The odd thing is
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Even before the devastating floods in southern Louisiana, 1 in every 6 residents struggled with food insecurity. These individuals relied on their community food banks and local initiatives to put food on the table, fulfilling basic human needs. Unfortunately, these organizations are not immune to rising flood waters and the storm left many critically in
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