{"id":1700,"date":"2009-11-17T04:55:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T09:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2009-11-16T16:29:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T21:29:04","slug":"give-to-the-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2009\/give-to-the-max\/","title":{"rendered":"Give to the Max"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/givemn.razoo.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Give to the max logo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/givemn.razoo.com\/images\/share\/giveMN_intro_gtmd.png?resize=256%2C109\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"109\" \/><\/a>For 24 hours, starting at 8:00 am on November 17<sup>th<\/sup>, every donation made through <a title=\"http:\/\/www.givemn.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.givemn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.GiveMN.org<\/a> will be eligible to receive a portion of the $500,000 match.<\/em><\/strong> These funds were contributed by the Minneapolis Foundation, St. Paul Foundation and Bush Foundation.  Also, generous funders are defraying donation processing fees on this site, so 100% of your gift goes straight to the organization!<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the matching funds, the three nonprofits that receive the most individual donations will receive cash prizes: $5,000 for first prize, $2,500 for second, and $1,000 for third.<\/p>\n<p>Over 36,000 organizations have a profile on the site. Thirty-two show up when I type &#8220;running&#8221; into the search engine though most of them aren&#8217;t running related or are too specific for my purposes. So I helped narrow it down for you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Running Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/givemn.razoo.com\/story\/Minnesota-Distance-Running-Association\">Minnesota Distance Running Association<\/a> (MDRA) is my running family in Minneapolis.\u00a0 It is one of the largest clubs in MN and does some great work.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/givemn.razoo.com\/story\/Twin-Cities-Running-Club\">Twin Cities Running Club<\/a> (TC Running) they are a &#8220;rival&#8221; USATF team but it is all fun and games.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/givemn.razoo.com\/story\/Team-Usa-Minnesota-Distance-Training-Center\">Team USA &#8211; MN<\/a> is a post-collegiate training center and group for runners to be coached and supported while they strive to fulfill their athletic goals.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/givemn.razoo.com\/story\/Bolder-Options-1\">Bolder Options<\/a> is a great youth mentoring program that connects youth and mentors through running (and biking) activities.\u00a0 I would highly recommend volunteering as a mentor with Bolder Options.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/givemn.razoo.com\/story\/Minnesota-Intercollegiate-Athletic-Conference\">MN Intercollegiate Athletic Conference<\/a> contains 13 member colleges that support student athletes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/givemn.razoo.com\/story\/Ywca-Of-Minneapolis\">YWCA <\/a>provides a variety of services to pretty much every population. They focus primarily on racial justice and empowering women and girls. In Minneapolis they also operate 3 fitness facilities. We are a member of the YWCA.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/givemn.razoo.com\/story\/Ymca-Of-Metropolitan-Minneapolis\">YMCA <\/a>also provides a variety of services and operates a lot of fitness facilities around Minneapolis and the West Metro. Some of our friends work for the YMCA, though none of their facilities are conveniently located for us.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Below are 7 <strong>organizations that I have given to or would give to<\/strong> if I had more money! (in no particular order)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/givemn.razoo.com\/story\/Longfellow-United-For-Youth-And-Families\">Longfellow United for Youth and Family<\/a> have played a huge role on my work here in MN.  LUYF is a coalition of community members and churches that provide a free tutoring program and strongly support the work of the Sanford Job Corps &#8211; one of my primary responsibilites at Sanford.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/givemn.razoo.com\/story\/Elpis-Enterprises\">Elpis Enterprises<\/a> has been another great partner for my work in MN. Elpis or Hope provides teenagers the opportunity to gain work-related skills and leadership through screen printing and other businesses.  My first encouter with Elpis was with their bird feeder program.  We bought kits and Paul brought out one of his employees and they helped my kids build 20 bird feeders in 1 hour!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/givemn.razoo.com\/story\/Achieve-Minneapolis\">Achieve Minneapolis<\/a> is more or less a foundation that supports programs within the Minneapolis Public Schools.  They provide grants for classrooms, teacher professional development, field trips, host career fairs, and much much more.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/givemn.razoo.com\/story\/Commonbond-Communities\">CommonBond Communities<\/a> provides affordable housing and supportive services in the Twin Cities.  I put CommonBond under youth development because I volunteered with them during the summer of my Americorps*VISTA service.  I served as a program assistant in a summer program that combined fun and learning during the afternoons for children residents of the Seward Towers.  They provide many more services to their residents.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/givemn.razoo.com\/story\/World-Relief-Minnesota\">World Relief <\/a>helps refugees adjust to life in Minnesota and America. This is the umbrella organization for the English literacy site that Christy and I co-coordinate.  They also provide job training, initial welcoming services, housing assistance and much more to refugees as they walk off the plane and into the sometimes harsh tundra of MN.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/givemn.razoo.com\/story\/Minnesota-Public-Radio-Dba-American-Public-Media\">Minnesota Public Radio<\/a> is a great news source for both local and national issues.  They also have a rocking music station that plays a lot of local bands.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/givemn.razoo.com\/story\/Second-Harvest-Heartland\">Second Harvest of the Heartland<\/a> is a large food bank that is helping to end hunger in MN.  It is affiliated with the national Feeding America (formerly Second Harvest Network) and does some great work here in the Twin Cities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/38af64f9-85d4-43e3-a453-7248c7962e65\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=625\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 24 hours, starting at 8:00 am on November 17th, every donation made through www.GiveMN.org will be eligible to receive a portion of the $500,000 match. These funds were contributed by the Minneapolis Foundation, St. Paul Foundation and Bush Foundation. Also, generous funders are defraying donation processing fees on this site, so 100% of your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,514,516,453,470,154,503,230,515],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity","tag-africa","tag-education","tag-feeding-america","tag-minneapolis","tag-minneapolis--saint-paul","tag-minnesota","tag-society-and-culture","tag-twin-cities","tag-ymca"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-rq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2398,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2010\/give-to-the-max-2010\/","url_meta":{"origin":1700,"position":0},"title":"Give to The Max 2010","author":"crossn81","date":"November 16, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Last year, more than 38,000 donors logged on to GiveMN.org and contributed more than $14 million to 3,434 Minnesota nonprofits, whose missions range from feeding the hungry, to protecting the environment, to promoting the arts. 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