Raising awareness by running the marathon... who do I talk to?

I was reading the 2013 newsletter (us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=d4fef673c3618e73e21957cbd&id=52388e8502) and saw that they raised awareness at the NYC and Baltimore marathons.

I'm up in Vancouver and we have a marathon coming up in early 2014. I've reached out to the marathon group, but would like to figure out who to talk to at CHERUBS to set something up.

I'm more than willing to run a marathon to help raise awareness and can likely get some friends on board also.

Anyone know who I should talk to?

Sean

Sean -

Thank you for reaching out to CHERUBS about this. I've run the Baltimore Marathon 2 times and set up funding pages to raise money for the CHERUBS Research Fund. I've also run many other races throughout the year just wearing a shirt to help raise awareness for CHERUBS. It's another great way to help raise awareness. Please feel free to sign up for any race you would like to run. CHERUBS can help get you a funding page set up and an event page that you can send out to family and friends. You will need to contact Melissa Larrison our Fundraising Coordinator at: mlarrison@cherubs-cdh.org and she will help get you set up.

Thank you again for wanting to help and I wish you all the best on your upcoming run. Make sure to send us and update on how the big day went.

Thank you
Freedom Green - CHERUBS volunteer
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That is wonderful! Right now we are switching forces within our fundraising committee, for Melissa is stepping down as our fundraiser coordinator, but please send Ashley Barry a message in the meantime, abarry@cherubs-cdh.org. She will help answer any questions you may have. We will have a new fundraiser coordinator up and running here in 2014 after they are trained, both ladies have accepted. I will post when I have their info. to contact.

If you would like to contact the CPAB with questions too, they can be reached at cpab@cherubs-cdh.org. Freedom is a great person to talk too, for she has run many marathons and raising CDH awareness and funds for CHERUBS at some of them.

What a great thing you are doing!!!

Sounds amazing!

Great way to raise money and awareness!

Thank you Tracy for posting the update. I had typed up that message before I had read about the new change. Yes, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about running races. I'd be more than happy to help. Again, thank you so much for doing this for CHERUBS. Running events are another great outlet to raising funds and awareness. Can't wait to see hear all about your upcoming event and read your funding page. Wishing you all the best on your training.

Hi, Just checking in. Please let me know if I can answer any questions. Thank you for raising awareness!