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Organizations: Health and Fitness Charity Events

Here are five organizations useful for and/or relevant to my beat, the charity side of health and fitness.

  1. Great Nonprofits

  2. The Color Run
    • Found at: The Color Run – Charity
    • Why: The Color Run is not a charitable race event itself, but in most of the cities in which it holds runs, it works with local organizations to increase cause awareness for those organizations.

  3. Outside Online
    • Found at: “Yes, Charity Races Are Losing Money. No, They’re Not Going Extinct.”
    • Why: Although this article is a little outdated (written in January 2015 and referencing stats from 2013 because 2014’s numbers weren’t in yet), this article makes the good argument that races are going away from three-day-long epic events by big companies (like the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life or Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s Race for the Cure) and toward shorter, themed races like mud runs, obstacle courses, and glow runs, many of which raise money for charities.

  4. Runner’s World
    • Found at: “Run for All”
    • Why: This is an authoritative source on running commenting on the reason many people run: to raise money for charity.

  5. Race Entry
    • Found at: “How to Organize a 5K”
    • Why: While this article encompasses all dimensions of planning a race, it has a specific section dedicated to planning fun runs or charity races.

Organizations – homelessness

Regional and local organizations:

The Northeast Georgia Homeless and Poverty Coalition provides resources and assistance to groups that work with homeless individuals and families.  Athens-Clarke County community development sends representation to meetings of the coalition.

Athens Resource Center for Hope provides many services for homeless individuals, including dental and medical care, advocacy, day care, and transitional housing.

Athens Area Homeless Shelter offers a variety of services as well as accommodations for homeless families.

The Sparrow’s Nest is run by a Christian ministry and offers day services on a walk-in basis to homeless individuals.

Action Ministries has a prominent presence in downtown Athens, serving breakfast and lunch every weekday and providing bagged lunches on Saturdays and Sundays!  This is a lifeline for many individuals living on the street.  Action Ministries also offers a variety of other supports and services.

 

5 Organization Sources

The University of Illinois at Chicago hosts the Urban Forum, a national event designed to advance the dialogue about the future of urban communities. It is run by Howard Wial who is an expert on gentrification and a professor at UIC.

The MacArthur Foundation does lots of different kinds of work to “make the world better,” but they have lots of great information available about gentrification.

The Urban Democracy Lab promotes sustainable forms of urbanism.

Athens for Everyone is a grassroots organization that promotes equality and social justice, and that works toward reducing poverty in Athens. They have hosted several panels about gentrification in Athens.

Athens Land Trust

The Athens Land Trust helps stop gentrification into culturally significant areas in Athens-Clarke County, such as the Hancock Neighborhood in East Athens.

Fashion and Lifestyle Organizations

 

  1. Athens Fashion Collective 
  2. Southern Bon Vivant (formerly known as Make it Work Molly)
  3. My_Athens and My Athens Style
  4. Atlanta Magazine 
  5. Various tattoo parlors (considering a piece on tattoos and tattoo art): Labyrinth , Pain and Wonder, Walk the Line, Chico Lou’s, Midnight Iguana 
  6. Muslim Student Association (for potential burkini ban story)
  7. UGA Dept. of Fashion Merchandising 
  8. Fashion Design Student Association at UGA
  9. Student Merchandising Association at UGA