Team Cassie + Friends Halifax Run/Walk 2024
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On May 17th-19th, 2024, let’s get active and raise awareness of juvenile arthritis in the Emera Halifax Bluenose Marathon & Charity Challenge!
In November 2021, we welcomed our first teammates of Team Cassie + Friends in the Halifax area as part of the Emera Bluenose Marathon & Charity Challenge. Our team made up of youth, families, healthcare professionals from the IWK Health Centre and researchers, stepped up for kids and families impacted by juvenile arthritis and other rheumatic diseases. In our first year, we raised over $3700 towards a Family Equipment/Support Cupboard at the IWK Health Centre where patients and their families can access numbing creams, heat/ice packs, splints, braces and other items that can support a youth with juvenile arthritis.
This May 2024, our team will get together again for the in-person Bluenose Marathon & Charity Challenge. Led by the Pediatric Rheumatology Clinic Team at IWK, we are excited to complete another successful Team Cassie + Friends event! It’s always so special to see our community come together, raising money, spreading awareness, and making connections in the name of JIA and other rheumatic diseases.
Join us this year as we race towards a pain-free future for kids on May 17th-19th, 2024.
Thank you for stepping up towards a pain-free future for kids affected by juvenile arthritis and other rheumatic diseases. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact info@cassieandfriends.ca
Click here to watch a video on “how to register” for Team Cassie + Friends in the Bluenose Marathon & Charity Challenge
- Click here to register for Team Cassie + Friends in the Bluenose Marathon & Charity Challenge.
- Select your distance and create a Race Roster Account
- Fill in the required information
- When you get to “Teams” make sure to click “Yes, add me to an existing fundraising team,” then search and select “Cassie + Friends.”
- Once submitted, log in to your Race Roster account to customize your fundraising page by adding a photo and sharing your story!
Questions? Please email info@cassieandfriends.ca
Kick start your fundraising with #YourFirst5 Challenge! Team Cassie + Friends challenges you to get at least 5 donations towards your fundraising page. And when you get 5, you’ll automatically be entered to win fun prizes! Not sure how to get your first 5 donations? Start by making a donation to yourself, then ask a friend (or two), a family member, gym buddy and a coworker/classmate!
- Make a donation to yourself – It all starts with you! Be proud of yourself for stepping up for kids and kick things off with a donation to your fundraising page.
- A donation towards research for safer and more effective treatments
- A donation towards support programs so families can feel less alone on their journey.
- A donation towards virtual education, our expert-led information sessions educating families across Canada
- A donation towards connection, so families have a shoulder to lean on.
Try sending this to a friend: Hi ______, I am so excited to let you know that this year I am stepping up for kids and families across Canada affected by juvenile arthritis and other rheumatic diseases. Juvenile arthritis is an incurable autoimmune disease in kids that attacks healthy joints and steals childhoods. Kids with JA live with pain, fatigue and fevers, and many require aggressive medications like chemotherapy. This year I am running with Team Cassie + Friends to fundraise for juvenile arthritis research and family support programs so that kids can have the pain-free futures they deserve. If you are able to make a donation in support of my run/walk, please click the link below. [Add your fundraising link here] Thank you for supporting me and the 24,000 kids in Canada affected by juvenile arthritis. [Name]
Team C+F Youth Ambassador Program Are you a youth who lives with or is impacted by Juvenile Arthritis, Lupus, Dermatomyositis, Fever Syndrome or other rheumatic disease? Want to help raise funds and awareness for juvenile arthritis at your school or amongst your sports team? Learn more about hosting a kids fun run at your school and how to earn free kids registration with our 2023 Youth Run Ambassador Program. What’s in it for you?
- Receive one free kids registration to an official Team C+F run/walk when you pledge to raise $50 or more. Official Virtual and In-Person Team Cassie + Friends run/walk events include: Vancouver, Calgary, Halifax, Hamilton, Toronto and Ottawa.
- Receive a Team C+F Fun Run Package including sidewalk chalk and Cassie + Friends coloured ribbons to host your at-school fun run event
- Receive a Team Cassie + Friends Technical Running Shirt
- Fun prizes when you reach fundraising milestones
- Raise $50, receive a Team C+F baseball cap
- Raise $500, a cupcake party for your class or sports team
- The opportunity to apply for the 2023 Youth Leader Award and your chance at a $500 prize.
