Runners With a Reason

About Runners With a Reason

Runners With A Reason is a community of runners who are driven to run.  

It doesn’t matter if this is your first race, or your hundredth, we all share that bond of having something so important in our lives that we are willing to experience significant pain and exhaustion. It motivates us to get up in the morning, to go out in the cold, to run up the hill one more time and to push through the “wall” one brick at a time.

Every runner has a reason why he or she runs. Most of them are quite different. Some may seem trivial, while others are a matter of life and death. None of that matters—we are all Runners With A Reason.

Runners With A Reason are people who are driven to help others.

Runners With A Reason, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation whose goal is to eliminate the reasons why people don’t run. Whether it is funding scholarships for a local “Girls On the Run” program (a non-profit organization that encourages girls to develop self-respect and healthy lifestyles through running), starting a local chapter of the Achilles Track Club (a program whose mission is to enable people with all types of disabilities to participate in mainstream athletic events, promoting personal achievement and removing barriers between people), buying running shoes for drug and alcohol addicts who are using running to battle their addiction, we try to find ways to get people to experience the life-changing effects of running.

Runners With A Reason raises money through volunteer runners who commit to a non-profit organization related to the “reason” why they do run, and then raise money for both their “reason” and Runners With A Reason as they train and run a full or half marathon. The “reasons” are as different as the runners, ranging from community sports programming to a role model who recently passed away to a sibling who has undergone multiple organ transplants.

Our runners start by picking something that has personal meaning to them and committing to it. By doing so, it will make them more accountable to completing the training and running a race. We ask each person to raise money as a part of their training and run.

The money that a person raises will go to his/her "reason", provided that it is a 501(c)(3) organization. A portion of the money raised goes to Runners With A Reason to be used to help achieve its goals.