Clear your schedule and come out to OC Fair & Event Center Saturday, November 7th. Starting at 8 am, Kids Run the OC will begin and you will have the opportunity to watch thousands of kids finish their Final Mile. At 10 am the OC Lifestyle and Fitness Expo will begin, with vendors you don’t
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The OC Marathon is proudly partnered with multiple charities. Charity partners are always open to having athletes join their team. It’s not too late to pick a charity and start your fundraising today! Why should you join a charity team? When you join a charity team, you’ll have an additional purpose for running. Running for
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UPDATE REGARDING COVID-19 To the Registrants of the 2020 SDCCU OC Running Festival Events: The SDCCU OC Marathon team is so thankful and humbled for all of the support we have received from our OC Marathon Family of runners and walkers these past few days. We were getting so many emails and calls asking what
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WHO ARE WE? The Hailey Mayz Foundation/aMAYZing Kids provides pediatric physical, occupational, and speech therapy to children in Orange County who are in need of special care and attention. We rely on fundraising support to help maintain our facility and highly trained therapists in order to enhance the quality of care provided and in turn
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The 2020 shirts are softer than ever, and are great for year-round workout wear! Not only do runners have the soft new material of the event shirt to look forward to, they’ll receive a shiny gold medal with a brand new look! Here’s a sneak peak of the Full Marathon, Half Marathon, 5K, and Combo
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We Inspire Girls to be joyful, healthy & confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running. At Girls on the Run, all girls are inspired and motivated to understand and accept others, while standing up for what they believe. Girls on the Run reaches girls at a critical stage, strengthening their confidence at
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What is Casa OC? Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Orange County is a non-profit organization serving our county’s most severely abused, abandoned and neglected children through the recruitment, training, and supervision of community volunteers who advocate for their best interests. It is the CASA volunteer who advocates to ensure that a child who cannot
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WHO ARE WE? NOCCO, a 501c3 non-profit group, is a non-professional, self-supporting, multiracial, apolitical “mechanism of change” providing a support network to promote physical, mental and spiritual sobriety in North Orange County. The group delivers the message of hope to live our best life through self-awareness and self-acceptance. We are Responsible. GOALS & REQUIREMENTS We
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Register now and use code “RACERAVES” to save 10%! Make the OC your 2020 Resolution! Run it. Experience it. LOVE IT. OC Marathon Running Festival May 1-3, 2020
Seneca fosters Unconditional Care for children and families going through the most difficult times of their lives! With your support, Seneca offers mental health, education support, and adoption/placement services to 1,000 children in OC. Seneca believes that children and youth do not themselves fail, but are failed by systems unable to address their complex and specialized needs. Since 1985, Seneca has
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1 LEARN MORE ABOUT CELEBRATE OC Joining The SDCCU OC Marathon in 2020.Bringing Music, Food, Fitness, and Fun together to Celebrate the BEST of OC Festival Celebrate OC is a two-day festival showcasing the talent, tastes, trends that make Orange County the best place to live and play. Held within the iconic Orange County Marathon
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HD-CARE is a University of California Irvine support group, 501(c)(3) Non-Profit organization. The “HD” in HD-CARE stands for Huntington’s Disease, a progressive, inherited neurodegenerative brain disorder for which there is currently no treatment or cure. “CARE” denotes the organization’s promotion of Community, Advocacy, Research, and Education. Huntington’s Disease (HD) is a progressive, inherited neurodegenerative brain disorder for
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Moises first took notice of the running scene in 2009, when his younger sibling trained for the LA marathon. Moises was fascinated by the idea of running such distance. With an overweight and sedentary lifestyle, the thought of running a marathon seemed out of reach. It wasn’t till 2013, when Moises began to run and
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Charity Partner and Fundraising Quicklinks Charity Partner Quicklinks Look up your Charity Team. Charity Team Lookup Create Charity Team Login. Create Login Login to your Team Page and see fundraisers. Login Charity Fundraiser/Runner Quicklinks Create your fundraising page. Create Page Login to your fundraising page. Login Find your public fundraising page. Find your page.
WHO ARE WE? We Run Orange County’s Kids is a nonprofit, public-service corporation that provides after-school intervention programs for Middle and High School students in the Orange County, California area. Based on the idea that life is like a Marathon, the mission of We ROCK is to teach our community’s teenagers the important life skills
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2020 OC Marathon AmbassadorsCelerina Dugat, Elizabeth Forney, Kerry Vicencia, Natalia Winter, Ismail Amin, Donovan Querubin, Justin Dugat, Rebecca Sales, Nani Lauriano, Kristin Stehly, Jenny Bradley, Naader Reda, Tyler Meier, Nicole Castillo, Becca Brockmeyer, Kristen Webster, Briana Sharp, Almi Del Villar, Victor Hurtado, Lindsay Collins, Becky Bell, Caitlin Oishi, Moises Alvarez, Megan Huston MEET THE TEAM
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A social club designed to accommodate athletes of all abilities. You may have seen us in our New Balance Snails Pace uniforms at local races. The club consists of four Chapters with over 400 members: the original Fountain Valley Chapter, the Mission Viejo, Brea and Monrovia chapters. Our members run at all levels of ability,
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1 Run the OC For Free by Fundraising For a Cause$650,000 Raised in 2019. Join the race for 2020! Choosing the Run For Free option during registration allows you to team up with the charity of your choice to fundraise for a cause that matters to you. As a Run for Free runner, you pay
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Register OC Marathon Running Festival May 1-3, 2020 SoCal’s Premier Running Event! Join the OC Marathon Running Festival May 1-3, 2020 At the OC Marathon, you’re not only signing up for a fun, fast, scenic race in the most beautiful part of California—you’re signing up for an experience in the infamous Orange County! The OC
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WHO ARE WE? We Run Orange County’s Kids is a nonprofit, public-service corporation that provides after-school intervention programs for Middle and High School students in the Orange County, California area. Based on the idea that life is like a Marathon, the mission of We ROCK is to teach our community’s teenagers the important life skills
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WHO ARE WE? Start Giving Local is committed to developing strategic programming, education, & events that inspire positive community action & foster collaboration in support of our mission. We leverage volunteers, technology & media to: * Connect, inspire & empower individuals fundraising for charity through their participation in endurance sports. * Support the social giving
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Join Project Purple this year at the OC! Project Purple is an impact-driven organization with a vision of a world without pancreatic cancer. Our mission is to find a cure for pancreatic cancer and improve the lives of patients through support, hope, and compassion. We will be participating in the 5K, half marathon, and well
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Run and raise money to support HD Care's mission! WHO ARE WE? HD-CARE is a University of California Irvine support group, 501(c)(3) Non-Profit organization. The “HD” in HD-CARE stands for Huntington’s Disease, a progressive, inherited neurodegenerative brain disorder for which there is currently no treatment or cure. “CARE” denotes the organization’s promotion of Community, Advocacy, Research,
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What is Seneca Family of Agencies Join Seneca in Fostering Unconditional Care for children and families going through the most difficult times of their lives! With your support, Seneca offers mental health, education support, and adoption/placement services to 1,000 children in OC. Seneca believes that children and youth do not themselves fail, but are failed by systems unable to address their
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WHO ARE WE? Run for Team Project Independence and help contribute to our goals so that we can succeed in our mission of promoting civil rights for people with developmental disabilities through services which expand independence and choice. Let your friends know how they can help too! Encourage them to help by sharing your efforts and inviting
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WHO ARE WE? Project Youth OCBF is an official charity of the OC Marathon. Our mission is to keep at-risk youth in school, healthy and drug free through education, counseling, mentoring and family strengthening. Your involvement is critical to our success in providing programs and services that empower youth to make positive choices for positive futures. Learn
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WHO ARE WE? Because No One Should Have to Crawl Santa Ana Resident, Don Schoendorfer started Free Wheelchair Mission in 2001. He was motivated by a scene he saw in the late 1970s while on vacation to Morocco with his wife, Laurie. There he saw a woman, who was unable to walk, drag herself across a busy
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WHO ARE WE? OWI supports orphans and widows, the sick and the poor in the rural community of Kiminini, Kenya. Founded in 2004 our mission is to educate, equip and empower. Our main focus is affording vulnerable orphans healthcare and more importantly, a way out of the cycle of poverty by offering a K-12 education.
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WHO ARE WE? Join our fundraiser by running the Full, Half, or 5k, or by volunteering at our Mile 4 Waterstation – click Register (at right) to get involved. Here’s why: The old proverb, “give someone a fish and they eat for a day… teach someone to fish and they eat for a lifetime,” affirms
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WHO ARE WE? Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Orange County is a non-profit organization serving our county’s most severely abused, abandoned and neglected children through the recruitment, training, and supervision of community volunteers who advocate for their best interests. CASA provides a powerful voice and a meaningful connection for children who have experienced abuse,
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