SEATTLE WEEKLY Founded in 1976, Seattle Weekly has been the premiere source for entertainment, culture, and narrative journalism for more than 3 decades. While maintaining its roots as a free weekly newspaper, Seattle Weekly has become a daily presence on seattleweekly. com, providing real-time news and analysis from the city, as well as comprehensive coverage of the local food and music communities. HERITAGE BANK Your Partners for Success, since 1927 Heritage Bank, a subsidiary of Heritage Financial Corporation, serves the Pacific Northwest with 28 branches in western Washington and the greater Portland, Oregon area. We have worked effectively for more than 85 years to build a company with strong liquidity, capital and credit quality. We are a true community bank, seeking deposits from our communities and making loans to customers who have local ties to our markets. As a full-service community bank, we offer a complete array of business and personal banking tools designed with our customers and their financial goals in mind. We also focus on the importance of giving back to the communities we serve. With a combination of contributions and staff volunteer efforts, the Bank supports philanthropic activities that strengthen the core of our communities. BRONZE SPONSORS ONTHERUNEVENTS Ontherunevents.com has been serving the running community with online information since 1995. Site visitors can search our extensive calendar for runs, walks and multi-sport events. Check out our race day photos at ontherunphotos.com! Visit us today at ontherunevents.com and at www.facebook.com/ontherunevents DOLE - YES INC. DOLE PACKAGE FOODS is proud to support the Seattle Marathon Association and all the participants throughout the weekend. Enjoy Dole Fruit Bowls in 100% Juice – available in 9 varieties. SUPPORTING SPONSORS HONEY BUCKET Honey Bucket is again pleased to provide clean, portable rest rooms for the Amica Insurance Seattle Marathon. Honey Bucket can meet any portable sanitation needs for special events, construction or agriculture. Call us at 800.444.2371. BRADLEY KIRSCHNER Bradley Kirschner, CPA is the accounting firm for the Seattle Marathon Association and a 16th year sponsor. We wish to thank him for all his support and hope you will contact the firm at 206.378.1886 for all your accounting needs. PARTNERS UWMC TEAM TRANSPLANT University of Washington Medical Center’s Team Transplant is a comprehensive training program for organ transplant recipients. We strive to promote physical fitness among transplant recipients and to promote community awareness on the benefits of organ donation. Our yearly goal is to prove that transplant recipients can complete the Amica Insurance Seattle Half Marathon!
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ASHA Asha for Education is a non-profit organization dedicated to socioeconomic change in the underprivileged communities of India primarily through the means of education. We also address other issues which impact development, including: gender inequality, health care, civilian rights, income generation, and the environment. “Miles for Smiles" is a marathon training program to raise funds for our projects. 100% of all donations reach our project partners in India. For more information visit: www.ashanet.org/seattle/ CARES OF WASHINGTON Cares of Washington was founded in 1980 for the purpose of providing assistance to people with disabilities living in the Puget Sound area. Over the next two decades, the organization grew to a multi-state employment service agency, headquartered in Washington D.C. Cares of Washington (Cares) provides critical services to low-income individuals as well as people living with disabilities in our region.
THE TEARS FOUNDATION The TEARS Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that seeks to compassionately lift a financial burden from families who have lost a baby by providing funds to assist with the cost of burial or cremation services. We believe that every baby's life deserves to be honored and memorialized in accordance with the grieving parents' wishes and are committed to helping bereaved parents with this experience. We also believe that every grieving parent deserves access to ongoing bereavement support. Therefore, we also offer parents comprehensive bereavement care in the form of grief support groups and peer companions. One in four women will experience a pregnancy or infant loss in her lifetime. You are not alone. For more information or support, please visit www.thetearsfoundation.org BOYS & GIRLS CLUB Keystone Club is a national leadership program for teens within Boys & Girls Clubs. Keystone promotes leadership in the Club and the community and focuses on three core areas: academic success, career preparation and community service. The Ballard Keystone Club is 40 members strong and has put in over 1,000 hours of community service in the past year and has graduated 100% of its members on-time from high school. Boys & Girls Clubs of King County gives kids a place to call their own, where they can have fun, get a hot meal, be creative, be a part of a team, get help with homework...or just hang out with friends. We offer safe, fun, inclusive, and inspiring places that kids and families count on—every day. Thirteen locations with open doors throughout King County create space for children and teens to learn, create, and attain their best in academics, athletics, and more. Together we're changing lives. Find out more at positiveplace.org. EPILEPSY FOUNDATION The mission of the Epilepsy Foundation is to stop seizures and SUDEP, find a cure and overcome the challenges created by epilepsy through efforts including education, advocacy and research to accelerate ideas into therapies. The Epilepsy Foundation Northwest serves the epilepsy community throughout the Northwest where over 136,000 people live with epilepsy. The Epilepsy Foundation is dedicated to making sure that people with epilepsy and seizures can experience all that life has to offer. Athletes vs. Epilepsy affirms this positive message and embodies it through action. Athletes vs. Epilepsy is a nationwide program for athletes, coaches, volunteers and fans to raise awareness and money to help fund the Epilepsy Foundation’s mission. For more information, visit www.epilepsy.com. ORAL CANCER FOUNDATION The Oral Cancer Foundation has formed partnerships with the University of WA’s School of Dentistry, the Amica Insurance Seattle Marathon, the Washington State Dental Association, and the WA Academy of General Dentistry, among other organizations, in an effort to raise the 5 year survival rate of Oral Cancer from a mere 57% through early detection and awareness. If caught in early stages, Oral Cancer has over a 90% survival rate. Please join us Sept. 14th at Magnuson Park in Seattle and help us save lives, smiles, kisses, and families. For more info and to register, visit our website. ST. JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL Find the Hero inside of you by raising funds and awareness to help save the lives of kids battling cancer and other life threatening illnesses here and around the world. St. Jude is changing the way the world treats childhood cancer, and thanks to Heroes like you, no family ever pays St. Jude for anything. Plus, St. Jude Heroes can receive incentives like free race entry, VIP event access and exclusive training opportunities with Integrated Rehabilitation Group. TEAM IN TRAINING Today is the day you'll start helping save the lives of blood cancer patients by joining Team In Training (TNT) and raising money for blood cancer research. Since its beginning in 1988, more than 600,000 participants have helped TNT and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) raise more than $1.4 billion. TNT is the oldest and largest sports endurance training program of its kind. Only with TNT do you receive coaching support, fundraising support, event weekend support, as well as lifelong friendships and the knowledge that you are making a difference in the lives of so many with blood cancer, because Someday Is Today. For more information, visit our website at www.teamintraining.org/wa, or call us at 206-957-4573.
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