Saucony Run For Good Awards Grants
The Saucony Run For Goods Foundation, established to help combat childhood obesity by providing financial support to community-based youth running programs, has announced its latest round of grant winners. The nine grant recipients include organizations from Greenville, Michigan to Greenville, South Carolina, and New Hampshire to Washington, a state with nearly the highest rate of obese children (21%) in the country. Saucony's Run for Goods Foundation continues to combat these startling childhood obesity rates. Since the program's 2006 launch, Saucony Run for Goods has given more than half a million dollars to nearly 60 organizations nationwide, all to promote running as part of a healthy, active lifestyle -- for life. The Saucony Run For Good Foundation also announced that biannually, a Run For Good grant will be made in the name of 2008 Olympic sprinter and Saucony athlete Wallace Spearmon, Jr. to be awarded to community organizations that support opportunities for at-risk youth to participate in track and field. The inaugural grant was awarded as part of the latest round to Boston-based Youth Enrichment Services (YES) to support a year-round, inter-neighborhood track and field program that will reach out to more than 1,500 inner-city youth participants.