On June 24th, Carl will be running in the Scotiabank Vancouver Half Marathon to raise funds for the Canucks Autism Network. I want to help carl reach his fundraising goal ($500 personal goal, part of his $3000 team goal) by spreading the word about his efforts and hopefully inspiring a few more people to contribute to this worthy cause!
Please consider chipping in $5 or $10 or more. No amount is too small! You will be supporting programs like We CAN be Friends:
We CAN Be Friends is a curriculum-based elementary school program that teaches all learners the values of friendship, empathy and inclusion by using grade appropriate lesson plans, autism specific resources and awareness raising activities for the entire school.
Great stuff! As always, I wanted more info so here are a few questions I asked Carl about the marathon and CAN…
How often have you run in charity marathons?
I run for charity almost every year, started off doing 10K Charity runs and graduated to half marathons in 2008. (I ran in 2008, 2011 and this will be my third half marathon but somehow that doesn’t sound inspiring).
[note from sister: yes it does, geesh!]
How did you find out about this charity?
Found out about CAN from a co-worker. I got my branch to enter into this event as a team and we needed to pick one charity as a group, my co-worker May introduced us to this charity and as a team we all voted to dedicate our fundraising efforts toward CAN.
Why did you choose to support the Canucks Autism Network?
The reason we chose to support CAN is because a number of our clients have children with autism and we have seen the challenges they live with on a day to day basis. It feels good to be able to help fundraise for a charity that will have an immediate positive impact for people we know.
What will the fundraised money help with?
The Canucks Autism Network provides year-round, innovative, high quality sports, recreational, social and vocational programs for individuals and families living with autism, while building awareness and capacity through community networks across British Columbia.
Here is a video from the CAN website:
Update: Carl has reached his personal goal! Three more weeks before the run, so I think he can exceed it. Maybe double? Here’s a photo to show how hard he’s training :)
To my knowledge, he will not have to dress up like this for his June run:
Carl as Nacho Libre, Scotiabank fundraising event – 2008.
I just noticed this post about the “Charity Challenge” on the C.A.N. website:
http://canucksautism.ca/get-involved/scotiabank-half-marathon-and-5k-charity-challenge/
Thank you so much Karen for your all your help, and I’d also like to thank everyone who has donated, I’m just so grateful for your generous support.
This year my team has challenged another Scotia bank branch to a Charity fund raising competition. We both have teams in the half-marathon and the stakes are that whoever wins, the loser has to hold a charity car wash for the benefit of the winners charity.
My team has raised $3,706.25 for the Canucks Autism Network, but my competition has raised $3,717.50 for the BC Cancer Foundation. That’s right, we are 11.25 behind with only a few weeks left to make up the difference, and the other team isn’t sitting still either.
Although I don’t mind washing cars if I lose because I’ll still be helping a good cause, I really really would like to win!
Thanks again for all the support, I’m definitely going to pay every penny forward!
No problem, Carl. I’m happy to spread the word for you :)
And super idea for a challenge, haha. You’re so close!! I hope you win, too :)
The results are in!
https://www.supercatchytitle.com/the-results-are-in/