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.

🎉 Event Highlights

• Location: 6087 Broadway, Bronx, NY
• Date: November 28, 2024
• Registration: [Lettuce Run 5K](https://runsignup.com/Race/NY/Bronx/LettuceRun5K?aflt_token=QZt1KFBDIiIun5smo9vi7y59qq2fNLcB)
• Type: Untimed fun run with no awards

🌍 Community 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? And at the same time, so many folks in the Bronx are hungry. Food waste is an environmental disaster that can be easily transformed into a hunger and environmental solution. 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 that now rescues and redirects over 67,000 lbs of good, healthy food every month! Our community has a lot to be proud of!!!!

🤝 Support for the Community

• Assistance: Helping anyone with food insecurity without questions, judgment, or condemnation.
• Beneficiaries: Working mothers, families, and senior citizens facing financial difficulties.
• Current Need: Support due to rising food costs straining individuals and families.
• Action: Volunteers pick up food from bakeries, restaurants, and schools.

🏃 Participate with Family

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 that will start at 9:30 am, so bring the whole family! We will have giveaways and all money raised will go to 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 make sure everyone can get home to cook, this will be an untimed fun run so we won’t be giving out awards but we will have goodies and giveaways and maybe even a raffle...

💡 Ways to Contribute

Read more about the Friendly Fridge here. 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.

🌟 Sponsorship Opportunities

Fruit Tier ($250)

• Recognition: On the Friendly Fridge BX website
• Logo: On Friendly Fridge Food Hub sponsorship banner
• Shout-out: Social media mention
• Entries: Two complimentary race entries

Veggie Tier ($500)

• All Fruit benefits: Included
• Logo: Featured on participant T-shirts
• Entries: Four complimentary race entries

Potato Tier ($1,000) - The Northstar Group

• All Veggie benefits: Included
• Post: Dedicated social media post
• Mention: Company name in press releases
• Entries: Six complimentary race entries

Dessert Tier ($3,000) - J & N

• All Potato benefits: Included
• Booth: Space at the event
• Entries: Eight complimentary race entries

Main Course Tier ($5,000)

• All Dessert benefits: Included
• Opportunity: Speaking opportunity at the event
• Location: Premium location on sponsorship signage
• Entries: Ten complimentary race entries

Banquet Tier ($10,000)

• All Dessert benefits: Included
• Opportunity: Speaking opportunity at the event
• Entries: Twenty complimentary race entries

Goods & Services Sponsors:

Van Cortlandt Park Alliance
Van Cortlandt Track Club