Event Description
Frontline Heroes Virtual 5K.
When: July 4, 2020
Where: Virtual (Pick your favorite or preferred running/walking/crawling location)
How: Virtual race packages will be mailed to the address you register with. Packages to include: T-Shirt, Medal, Bib, and Bumper Sticker.
Why: We are partnering with First Responders Children's Foundation to provide support to those serving the frontline. Many families of First Responders, Medical Workers, and Military are greatly impacted on the frontline. First Responders Children's Foundation offers grants to those families in need who are serving the frontline. All proceeds from this virtual 5K will go to support First Responders Children's Foundation and their mission.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, First Responders Children’s Foundation has to date:
-Funded more than 12,946 hotel room nights and meal stipends so first responders don’t have to go home and infect their families and / or can self-quarantine.
Awarded $2.57 million in grants to first responders with financial hardship due to COVID-19 and allocated an additional $1.25 million for a total commitment of $3.82 million.
-Distributed more than 400,000 FDA-certified, surgical grade masks to first responders through the Mask Project without disrupting the supply chain of N95 masks for hospitals.
-Is preparing to distribute a significant amount of hand sanitizer to first responders and tens of thousands of toys to children of first responders.
-Paid for 16 funerals of first responders who died from COVID-19.
-Will continue to support first responders for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic.
-Continues a 19 year mission funding millions of dollars in college scholarships benefiting hundreds of worthy children with first responder parents who have been killed or injured in the line of duty.
