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Run for Charity

3/25/2014

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Fargo Marathon encourages fitness and healthy lifestyles and provides an option for runners to make their miles count for causes they believe in. Fargo Marathon Charity Teams recruit and encourage runners to raise money and awareness for their charity through participation in all race events. Go the extra mile when you run or walk for a Charity Team in the Fargo Marathon!

Why Run for Charity?
Running in a race event like the Fargo Marathon gives you a target date to concentrate on your running efforts. Adding a charity component – raising money for a special cause makes that internal timeline an external motivator.

Becoming a Charity Runner gives purpose for training to run or walk a goal distance or time.  You don’t have to run a marathon to be a Charity Runner. You can walk the 5k (3.1 miles) or get your kids involved in a Youth Run (under age 4 and up to age 12). Kids care about their community too:  being a Charity Runner for an organization that provides services for other kids can be a great teachable experience.  Plus, to get them in gear for the race may give kids (and parents) added physical activity time!
Go the extra mile when you run or walk for a Charity Team in the Fargo Marathon!
Sign up to be a Charity Runner
  • Register for a Fargo Marathon race
  • Choose from one of  30 Charity Teams HERE
  • Raise money - goals depend on you and the Charity Team
  • Train for your race - your goals depend on you
  • Race
  • Feel Good
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Go the extra mile when you run or walk for a Charity Team in the Fargo Marathon!
Do you have a family member that is a survivor, has a special need, or benefits from the charity you’d support financially?  Those personal reasons are another strong inspiration to participate in a race event as a Charity Runner.  Thinking about the people or children that benefit from the money you raise may provide the needed extra encouragement you need to get up and out the door to train for your race.

Some people love the great feeling of camaraderie they get when they are a part of a team. Many Fargo Marathon Charity Teams give shirts or hats to Charity Runners so that the runner looks and feels like a member. Team-up with family, friends or co-workers to train together, raise money together and run together. 

It’s worth the mention that money you give to charity does have a tax benefit. Check with your tax professional on what a tax deduction can mean for you.

Whether you raise $150 or $10,500 you can’t dismiss the feeling you get after 3 or 26.2 miles –however fast or slow it goes – that overall self-satisfaction that you got off the couch, you beat the bystander, you put one-foot in front of the other and you did it all for someone else. A pretty great feeling.

Rachel, Reach Partners &
Project Manager for Fargo Marathon Charity Teams
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Mentoring 101

3/18/2014

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Recently the Fargo Moorhead Area Foundation's Women's Fund hosted a conversation with 110 of the area's leaders to talk about women, leadership and the surprising gaps found at the region's executive tables and in public sector leadership positions.

The face-paced conversation drew to the surface ideas and thoughts for further discussion and action: 
  • Encourage women to respond to leadership opportunities
  • Actively identity women for leadership roles
  • Institute best practices training to increase the overall quality of life in the workplace
  • Include the balance of equality in the mission, vision, and values of organizations
  • Enforce existing policies that call for gender balance
  • Activate men and women to act as intentional mentors to encourage and engage women
Mentoring 101 from Connect: Professional Women's Network
All of the ideas in the world won't change the balance of leadership without action. But sometimes action seems daunting without guidance. As suggested within the Woman's Fund conversations, a mentor is a powerful relationship that can be a place to explore, learn, and foster a budding leader.

Jenni Luke, CEO of Step Up Women’s Network provides a broad definition of what a mentor is and does. Each of us at Reach Partners certainly have the traditional archetype of a mentor in our lives but also have people who come and go who have helped process career choices and decisions.  Having a mentor and being a mentor are invaluable experiences.

Become a mentor or find a mentor. As Ms. Luke states, don’t go in with, “will you be my mentor?” start by asking someone you admire for a coffee date or if you see potential in a person reach out to them to grow the relationship.

Rachel, Reach Partners


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he focus of the Women’s Fund April 2014 grant is Women in Leadership and has over $40,000 to award in this area. Groups and organizations without a 501 (c)(3) may use a fiscal sponsorship for a short-term project. More info...
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First Steps to Take an Existing Project

3/14/2014

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Sometimes it’s necessary to hand over a project to a new manager or leader. What are the first steps to take on an existing project?

Get the facts and a broad sense of where the project has been and where it’s headed. Investigate the corners of the project:  interview stakeholders, key team members and review the resources, documents, plans and products of the project.  

Honor the history of the project and those that contributed to is present state.  It’s less about protecting egos and more about recognizing the work that’s been done to leverage the past efforts to further the project along. 

Be generous with communication across the project team and stakeholders. Communicate the truth and build consensus about any problem areas and the action plan to fix it.  Then ensure the team has the support to continue the project vision and expectations.

For whatever the reason: project lag or even failure, change in staff responsibilities or company priorities is there a project that you’d consider a new leadership.

Rachel, Reach Partners
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How Important Is The Design of Your Event?

3/4/2014

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The question of event design recently came up in a group I follow. It’s a topic that I like to think about since I’ve worked on events that range from bare bones to highly designed.  How important is the design of your event? I have come to find deliberate or not, an event is always designed.

​Every element carries meaning, intended or not. Event planning combines strategy and preparation to achieve a desired experience in a particular time and space. Materials, signage, food, seating, layout, setting, messages are some of the elements that contribute to the experience for a participant. 


​While these environmental factors color an event and determine whether the audience will be comfortable, the subtexts of the elements always leave an impression.

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