UPDATE: Applications for our Events to Run grants are now closed. We are excited by the breadth of youth events that are being planned and grateful to everyone that applied for a grant. We are now processing all of the applications and will announce the winners on this page and in our newsletter, Get a Running Start, as soon as possible.
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Overview
Events to Run is a new youth coaching resource designed to make it easy to organize fun runs, track meets, and more for your students. To celebrate its launch, and to help you organize your athletic events this spring, we are giving away $20,000 in grants! Keep reading for details.
New York Road Runners (NYRR) seeks to make running a part of every child's school day by providing free running programs and resources to schools and communities in New York City and across the country. This school year, NYRR is excited to launch Events to Run, the latest resource from its suite of free youth running programs and teaching tools.
To celebrate this launch, NYRR will award a total of $20,000 worth of grants to schools and non-profits to help support youth running and fitness events. There will be 40 grants of $500 each awarded to schools or organizations in the U.S. Award recipients will be selected by NYRR based upon its evaluation of the comparative merits of the applications submitted for the awards, and NYRR's decisions will be final.
Grant Application Form
Applications are now closed
Grant Recipient Obligations
- The event must be youth-focused and organized by a school or non-profit.
- Grant monies may not be used to support expenses incurred prior to the date of the award grant.
- Grant monies are to be spent on fitness or health-related resources for the youth event. This can include purchases such as space rental or permits, equipment, awards, ribbons, prizes, t-shirts, healthy snacks, event staff, etc. Grant monies may not be used on transportation or race entry fees to another event.
- Grant monies are to be spent within one year of receipt of the monies.
- Photos or videos, and a short summary must be submitted to NYRR by March 31, 2013 to show how grant monies were spent or are planned to be spent. Grant winners will be subject to random audit by NYRR.
Application Guidelines
- Only one application per school or organization is permitted.
- All applications must be submitted by 5 pm EST on Monday, February 13, 2012.
- Grant winners will be contacted on or before Monday, March 2, 2012.
- Grant winners must provide the school or organization’s tax exempt ID within 5 business days in order to receive the grant.
Questions can be e-mailed to: arunningstart@nyrr.org
