 The historic Boston Marathon is happening right in our backyard, and we’ve been keeping up with lots of Boston Marathon fundraisers and charities as April 20 fast approaches. So far over 800 charity runners have raised almost $700,000 online with their personal fundraising pages. Larry is just one of many marathon fundraisers we know with an [...]  Our friends at the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children just received about 20 more bib numbers for the Boston Marathon and are looking for charity runners to join their team.  Bill is running the Boston Marathon in 2 months, 1 day, 22 hours, 44 minutes and 12 seconds. . . and counting. He’s fundraising for Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary, and he’s met 32% of his fundraising goal. How did we get this info so fast? Bill has a couple of nifty widgets on his [...]  What is a virtual event, you ask? Well, we’ll tell you. A virtual event is one that doesn’t require its participants to be in the same place at the same time in order to participate. It can take place anywhere in the country (or the world), in any time zone. It [...]  Last week we posted a mini-series on tips from our marathon fundraising panel experts. If you missed it, you can find it here.  Part three in a mini-series on nuggets gleaned from our marathon fundraising panel experts. Very few people will sign up to run a marathon, let [...]  Part two in a mini-series on nuggets gleaned from our marathon fundraising panel experts. Training begins [...] Did you know that the average charity runner raises more than double what a walker does, and that a marathoner raises 50% more than that? Do you want to put that kind of dedication to work for your organization?  Part one in a mini-series on nuggets gleaned from our marathon fundraising panel experts. |
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