Causes
About the Endurance Trust
Follow Your Passion.
Make a Difference.
Race For Free!
The concept is simple. The impact is profound! Since our founding in 2005 a few lone racers have been able to raise tens of thousands of dollars for worthy causes that have helped kids around the world – helping to research cures for pediatric brain tumors, helping kids with autism and raising awareness of the hurdles many of these kids are facing.
If, alone, we could do this, imagine what we can accomplish if we harnessed the power, enthusiasm and skills of our entire endurance community?
http://www.endurancetrust.org/
About Riley Hospital for Children
Riley Hospital for Children is Indiana’s only comprehensive children’s hospital, with pediatric specialists in every field of medicine and surgery. Riley Hospital for Children offers one of the nation’s largest and most comprehensive outpatient care facilities for children, the world’s largest pediatric sleep disorders center and one of the nation’s three largest autism treatment center. Riley Hospital for Children also offers Indiana’s only pediatric burn center, the most comprehensive neonatal unit, including the state’s most experienced ECMO program, Indiana’s largest and most comprehensive pediatric intensive care unit and is part of the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center – the only National Care Institute-designated patient care center in Indiana. Child Magazine ranked Riley Hospital for Children 11th overall across the country and recognized the Riley neonatal and pulmonary care departments in the top 10 among select specialties. In addition, five specialty programs ranked among the top 30 children’s hospitals in the nation by U.S.News & World Report’s 2008 edition of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals. All of the Indiana pediatricians listed in America’s Top Doctors, a national consumer publication, have Riley-based practices. Riley was recognized as the nation’s best performer in outpatient satisfaction by Arbor Associates.
http://rileychildrenshospital.com/
About the PLGA Foundation
The Pediatric Low Grade Astrocytoma (PLGA) Foundation is the largest, and only, non-profit organization dedicated to providing hope to children, parents, and families fighting Pediatric Low Grade Astrocytomas (PLGAs). We were founded in August 2007, as a 501(c)(3) foundation made up of families and friends dedicated to helping children who are struggling with brain tumors.
To date, families associated with the Pediatric Low Grade Astrocytoma (PLGA) Foundation have raised over $6 million for DEDICATED PLGA research and funded over a dozen new research projects targeted specifically at children’s brain tumors or PLGA’s. These funds have supported the launch of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute’s PLGA Research Program as well as numerous grants distributed by the Brain Tumor Society, and other fine institutions.
The PLGA Foundation awards 100% of funds to education and research in the search for more effective, less toxic treatment options for this potentially devastating childhood brain tumor.
The PLGA Foundation actively promotes partnerships with other non-profit organizations, private individuals and government entities and has collaborated on fund raising, education and grant allocations in order to leverage resources and funds.
Our goal at the Pediatric Low Grade Astrocytoma (PLGA) Foundation, also known as Fight Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma (FightJPA.org), is to UNITE families around the country and around the world in the FIGHT for the lives of our children who suffer from PLGAs – childhood brain tumors.
We can defeat childhood brain tumors through a united effort on all fronts to increase awareness, education, fundraising and research of pediatric low grade astrocytomas.
About The USA Swimming Foundation’s “Make A Splash”
Make a Splash is a national child-focused water safety initiative created by the USA Swimming Foundation, with the goal of teaching every child in America how to swim.
It works by aligning the nation’s top learn-to-swim resources in an effort to save lives. Make a Splash educates parents through a national awareness campaign, saves lives by joining forces with grassroots learn-to-swim programs and reaches thousands of children through wide-reaching in-school materials. Make a Splash is improving communities by equipping children with the skills that could save their life.
