Lettuce Run on Thanksgiving 5K for the Friendly Fridge BX

🥗 Lettuce Run on Thanksgiving 5K

Please join the Van Cortlandt Track Club for our second Lettuce Run on Thanksgiving 5k to raise money for the Friendly Fridge Foundation, which was created with the sole purpose of supporting the Friendly Fridge BX with the goal of rescuing and redirecting even more food into the community through outreach and action. The need is so great and the opportunity to effect change is enormous.

🏙️ Why We Need the Friendly Fridge BX

• Environmental Impact: Did you know that a single head of lettuce can take up to 25 years to decompose in a landfill, giving off harmful methane gas the whole time?
• Community Support: Since the Friendly Fridge BX’s inception, it has grown from a small sidewalk community refrigerator that was plugged into a local restaurant to a community food hub with hundreds of volunteers.
• Food Insecurity: The Friendly Fridge BX helps anyone with food insecurity without questions, judgment, or condemnation.
• Strained Resources: Right now, the inflation of food costs has put a strain on so many individuals and families.

👨‍👩‍👧 Event Details

So come and run with us!!!! This is a family-friendly event, all abilities are welcome! If you're not interested in running the 5k, there will be a 2k walk and we will have kids races starting at 9:30am so bring the whole family! We will have giveaways and all money raised will support the Friendly Fridge BX and their goal to eventually open a storefront to serve the community. Since we are doing this on Thanksgiving and we want to ensure everyone can get home to cook, this will be an untimed fun-run. We won’t be giving out awards but will have goodies and giveaways and maybe even a raffle...

🎁 Sponsorship Opportunities

• Fruit Tier ($250): Recognition on the Friendly Fridge BX website, logo on Friendly Fridge Food Hub sponsorship banner, social media shout-out, two complimentary race entries.
• Veggie Tier ($500): All Fruit benefits, logo featured on participant T-shirts, four complimentary race entries.
• Potato Tier ($1,000): All Veggie benefits, dedicated social media post, company name mentioned in press releases, six complimentary race entries.
• Dessert Tier ($3,000): All Potato benefits, booth space at the event, eight complimentary race entries.
• Main Course Tier ($5,000): All Dessert benefits, speaking opportunity at the event, premium location on sponsorship signage, ten complimentary race entries.
• Banquet Tier ($10,000): All Dessert benefits, speaking opportunity at the event, twenty complimentary race entries.

🙌 Support and Donations

If you aren’t able to join us on Thanksgiving, please consider donating: every contribution helps keep more food from the landfills and gets it to someone who needs it.

Read more about the Friendly Fridge here.

🤝 Goods & Services Sponsors

Van Cortlandt Park Alliance
Van Cortlandt Track Club