Join the Orange Laces Nation and you can change children's lives through fitness and take part in a kids non profit initiative.
There are two ways to fundraise to help kids exercise and fight obesity through running fitness programs. You can support kids as a virtual fundraiser. Or you can fundraise for a race you’re participating in, such as the ING New York City Marathon, the ING Hartford Marathon & Half Marathon, the ING Miami Marathon & Half Marathon, or one of several Rock 'n' Roll Marathon races. Click here for a full list of races.
It’s easy, because we provide you with everything you need to raise money for school-based running programs. And you’ll get your own free, personalized fundraising web page and a free online training plan from Active.com.---
We're Changing Children's Lives Through Fitness
Imagine if childhood obesity didn’t threaten the health of so many children across America. Imagine if we could give our nation’s children a way to get moving and a reason to get excited about physical activity!
We can and we are! ING Run For Something Better is helping kids learn that exercise is fun and fostering their desire to exercise before obesity even begins.
How? ING Run For Something Better funds free school-based running fitness programs that challenge children to get active, set goals and start a lifetime habit of physical activity. Each program is capped off with a fun culminating running event involving the school, or even the larger community. To make it all happen, we’re awarding grants to schools and we’re working with community partners to create exciting race day events. Get your school involved.
Why? In addition to fighting childhood obesity, research shows that physical activity improves a child's self esteem, school performance and overall wellbeing.
About Us
Fulfilling a Fitness Challenge Inspires Kids to Achieve
You can be a key ingredient in their success. Your financial support makes it possible for our young runners to experience the emotional high of reaching their fitness goals. By supporting ING Run For Something Better, you can make an important impact on a child’s life. You can be there with them in spirit as they work to achieve their dreams. It’s incredibly satisfying to know how thrilled these kids are about how far they’ve come! Miami essay contest winner, 8th grade student Christian Rivera from Palm Springs Middle School, is an example of the many children we touch each school year. He brims with pride over his running efforts…
“What I will do to stay fit after completing this race, doing a lot of sports of course. The ING [Run For Something Better program] gave me the wings (in this case, the legs) and I begin to fly (run), I do all kinds of sports including the ones that I am bad at, but I keep doing it, cross country, track and field, soccer, etc. Name it, I play it! Thanks to ING [Run For Something Better].”
How does Christian stay motivated to achieve his fitness goals?
“What really inspires me are those who can’t do it as much as they wish. Those who are fighting the cancer in a hospital and they only can run on their imagination, those who are in a wheelchair thinking if they would be able to at least walk again, these people who can’t do it but if they could they would do their very best.”
Why Is It So Successful?
Because it’s exciting! Kids get to show themselves just what they can achieve as they tackle the final challenge of a culminating running event organized by their school or community. They learn to set and meet goals. In fact, pursuing their running goals empowers children nationwide with the means to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
With your support, we’re giving kids the “wings” to “fly” and inspiring them to live healthy today, so they can have a better tomorrow!
Hurray for the children! Because of ING Run For Something Better, over 100,000 kids have logged nearly 4 million miles!
Watch The Kids In Action!
The final challenge of a school culminating running event or a race day associated with ING-sponsored marathons is exhilarating for kids. Watch this video to see the smiles of success for yourself.
You can be a part of the excitement. Please give to the Orange Laces campaign to help support physical education in schools and empower kids to adopt a lifetime habit of physical fitness!
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What’s New in 2012
Partnership means more races and more fun for more kids!
When kids take on the ING Run For Something Better running program, they're learning fun new ways to be healthy. Best of all, the sense of accomplishment they feel after finishing that last run at a school or community event is out of this world.
We're so proud that over the last year more kids have gotten to experience this incredible feeling of reaching their fitness goals. And in 2012 one more city, Washington D.C., will be added to the mix. ING KiDS ROCK will make a stop in the nation's capital on March 16, 2012. Other 2012 ING KiDS ROCK cities include: New Orleans, Dallas, Nashville, San Diego, Philadelphia, Los Angles and San Antonio.
It’s all thanks to a partnership between ING Run For Something Better and KiDS ROCK, the national kids running series that’s part of Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathons, operated by Competitor Group, Inc. Kids across the country are now enjoying the incredible opportunity they have to participate in this great running program and then complete their final mile in an exciting music-filled celebration called ING KiDS ROCK!
ING KiDS ROCK features just what kids love — live music and an action-packed atmosphere where kids race their final mile and celebrate their success with friends and family at the Finish Line Festival.
ING KiDS ROCK is set to become the largest kids-only running series in the country.
Click here to learn more.
Let's Move in School is a call to action for teachers, principals, superintendents, school boards, and parents to help schools provides a comprehensive school physical activity program with quality physical education as the foundation so that youth will develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to be physically active for a lifetime.
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