A Message From Our President, Judy Wexler
Welcome back to school! We hope you had a wonderful summer, and had a lot of fun playing and running outside. We also hope you are eating your fruits and vegetables every day!
We’ve had an exciting start to the school year. Yvette White, our Gives Back Coordinator, and I were very fortunate to be on the PHL17 Morning Show on Sep. 17 to promote our Gives Back Program and new exercise equipment delivery at an assembly at Pollock Elementary.
Of course, none of this would have been possible without the generosity of our iRun4Life runners and their families who participated in our April fundraiser. The new exercise equipment was delivered to the children at a Pollock school assembly on Sep. 20. The students and teachers were extremely grateful to the iRun4Life runners and their families, and they are very excited to start playing with all the new games and sporting equipment. Please see details below.
Welcome Churchville Elementary School and their new iRun4Life School Director Jenny Hidalgo, and Blue Mountain Elementary and their new iRun4Life School Director Gina Fuhrmann! We look forward to running with you! We also have a few other elementary schools who are interested in joining iRun4Life this year and we can’t wait to share the details with you soon!
Have a great school year and Happy Running!
Judy
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iRun4Life on the PHL Morning Show!
Many thanks to the PHL17 Morning Show for hosting us Tuesday, Sep. 17th to talk about iRun4Life and our Gives Back Program. iRun4Life has donated over $21,000 of much-needed athletic and recess equipment to 6 schools in Philadelphia through our Gives Back Program. See the story below about the Pollock Elementary assembly at which we presented the students with $6,500 in equipment! Pollock Elementary has over 700 Kindergarten through 6th grade students, and we are so happy to be able to provide basketballs, soccer balls, floor hockey equipment, and many hand-eye coordination, skill-building, and indoor recess games to them.
If you are interested in finding out how to hold an iRun4Life volunteer-based after-school running program at your elementary school, or you are interested in contributing to or joining in our 2020 Gives Back Fundraiser, please email us at
information@iRun4Life.com.
Watch our PHL17 Morning Show clip here:
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Gives Back Program: Pollock Elementary Assembly
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Last April, during special running events, iRun4Life runners from Buckingham Elementary, Bridge Valley Elementary, Butler Elementary, Doyle Elementary, Jamison Elementary, Linden Elementary, Kutz Elementary, Pine Road Elementary, and Welch Elementary combined with iRun4Life raised $6,500 to purchase new exercise equipment from US Games, as well as a very cool, very loud, Sony sound system for Pollock Elementary School students.
On Friday, Sep. 20, iRun4Life Board members, and four 6
th
grade iRun4Life runners from Buckingham Elementary (Quinn White, Grahm Hamilton, Mina Senior, and Samantha Taylor) helped us deliver an incredible number of soccer balls, footballs, kickballs, basketballs, spider balls, and volleyballs; as well as new hockey sticks and nets, a football locker, parachutes, scooters, foam beams, team building games, puzzles, and more! It was wonderful to see the happy and excited faces of all the students who couldn’t wait to play with everything. Principal Jackson, PE teacher Stephanie Kinn and all the teachers were also very appreciative and grateful, as they do not have any money in their budget for new gym equipment. Also attending was Nancy Nayowith, Director of Health, Safety & Physical Education for the School District of Philadelphia, and Sydney Edelson, from the Office of Strategic Partnerships from the School District of Philadelphia. It was a wonderful day for "Giving Back!”
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Welcome New iRun4Life Schools, Directors and Co-Directors!
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New Schools:
- Blue Mountain Seventh Day Adventist Elementary (Hamburg, PA)
- Churchville Elementary (Council Rock School District)
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New Directors:
- Gina Fuhrman, Director, Blue Mountain SDA
- Matthew White, Co-Director, Blue Mountain SDA
- Jenny Hidalgo, Director, Churchville Elementary
- Shannon Sticker, Director, Buckingham Elementary
- Sarah Martin, Director, Our Lady of Mount Carmel
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Social Media Reboot
iRun4Life's Instagram feed has been providing lots of great tips and updates since our "reboot" last month, as we now post every weekday! Our mission remains the same -- to teach young children about exercise, healthy nutrition, and giving back to the community. Using social media, we will provide useful tips, recipes, and exercise strategies to encourage kids' participation in our running program, and to help spread the word about iRun4Life to other schools.
Here's a look at what each day features:
- Monday Mania -- anything goes!
- Tuesday Tip -- tips about running, including form and hydration
- Workout Wednesday -- awesome ideas including warm-up and cool-down exercises
- Thankful Thursday -- includes iRun4LIfe Gives Back updates, photos and stories from our participating schools, and more
- Foodie Friday -- yummy healthy recipes, including shakes and desserts
To make sure you're in the know about iRun4Life, follow us here:
- Instagram: irun4lifekids
- Twitter: @iRun4LifeKids
- LinkedIn: #iRun4Life
- Facebook: Facebook.com/iRun4LifeKids
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Instagram Contest
iRun4Life is running an Instagram contest! When we reach our 100th follower (and we're almost there!!), we will randomly choose one of those followers to receive a unique, custom iRun4Life T-shirt. We will then draw another random follower when we reach 175 followers!
Get active, get engaged, and have some fun with us here at iRun4Life and follow us on Instagram at
irun4lifekids
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2020 iRun4Life Kids Only 3K Race: Save the Date!
The date for our next race is May 17, 2020. Just keep running!
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Facebook Donate Button & Fundraising
The iRun4Life Facebook page has an active
Donate button allowing anyone to make a donation to our organization right on Facebook! Donating this way allows the full amount to be paid out, as Facebook does not charge any payment fees to charitable organizations. Please encourage people to visit our page,
www.facebook.com/iRun4Life, and click
Donate under our logo/cover photo.
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There is also an easy way to run your own Facebook fundraiser for iRun4Life. Your friends and family who view the post and would like to donate can do so right on Facebook -- it's so easy! Facebook fundraisers will help us raise money for the upcoming iRun4Life season, and will benefit the general organization fund so we can help the schools with their needs and bring in needed funds for the Kids Only 3K Race. Click
here to see how it's done!
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Recipes featuring healthy ingredients for healthy living
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Tex Mex Breakfast Casserole
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This is a perfect recipe for breakfast or brunch -- and it's both gluten free and kid friendly! It's a great-sized dish to serve a crowd, and it saves well to use as leftovers through the week. Check it out
here
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Slow Cooker Salsa Chicken with Black Beans & Corn
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Nothing beats a slow cooker meal in the Fall. This recipe is super easy and one that the whole family will enjoy. For different ways to enjoy the meal, serve it over brown rice or cauliflower rice, or use it in tacos! See the recipe
here
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Fundraising Tool: Giving Assistant
You care about our cause; and we care about YOU! That’s why iRun4Life has teamed up with Giving Assistant to make it easier to donate. Simply sign up, select our cause, and shop at over 3,000+ online stores. You’ll save money and earn cash back on your everyday purchases, all while making a difference. Click the Giving Assistant banner to start shopping!
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The AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price from your eligible AmazonSmile purchases each time you shop. It's that easy! So instead of shopping at Amazon, shop at AmazonSmile!
If you are an AmazonSmile customer, you can now support iRun4Life Inc in the Amazon shopping app on your Android device! Simply follow these instructions to turn on AmazonSmile and start generating donations.
- If you have the latest version of the Amazon Shopping App, open the App on your Android device.
- View Settings and select AmazonSmile.
- Follow the in-App instructions to complete the process.
If you do not have the latest version of the Amazon Shopping App, update your App. Click
here
for instructions.
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"Celebrating Youth Fitness Through Running"
P.O. Box 234, Doylestown, PA 18901
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