David Cook. In counting up to the 5K run/walk, the family-friendly Race for Hope – DC will quirk a Kids Fun Run, Tomorrow.

The 14 th Annual Race for Hope – DC is depart of the Weekend for Hope, which includes the Golf for Hope tourney at Blue Mash : and a David Cook benevolence concert on April 29 th at the Warner Theater :. In reckoning to the 5K run/walk, the family-friendly Race for Hope – DC will characteristic a Kids Fun Run, a Survivor’s Tribute, a Wall of Hope and a ceremony of masks and hats haggard by mastermind tumor survivors during treatment. This year’s Rabbi Joseph P. Weinberg Triumph of the Spirit Award will be given to Rob Long, a Syracuse University crap-shooter who was diagnosed with a imagination tumor in 2010. "I am honored to be receiving the Triumph of Spirit Award," said Rob Long.

"The brook from this community, my kinfolk and my teammates has helped me get through my diagnosis and care and I am looking up to participating in the Race for Hope for years to come." As one of the nation’s largest volunteer generosity fundraising events, Race for Hope – DC is expected to depend on a shove of 12,000 participants and supporters, and outpace stand up year’s record-breaking $2.3 million fundraising total. The Race for Hope - DC benefits the National Brain Tumor Society : and Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure :.

These organizations, as well as all of the participants, survivors and volunteers equity the committee's want for a hour when sense tumors are a teachable bug and there is in the end a cure. There are currently over 600,000 mobile vulgus living with a primeval acumen tumor diagnosis in the U.S. and within the next 12 months, more than 210,000 kith and kin in the United States will be diagnosed with a cardinal or metastatic perception tumor. Brain tumors are the alternative important cause of cancer deaths in children and the outstanding cause of upstanding tumor cancer deaths in children, and cannot be prevented because their causes are still unknown.

The needfulness to enlarge probe funding is more supplicative than ever in level to dethrone anticipate and acclaim to the often underserved discernment tumor community. The Race begins at Freedom Plaza at 13th and Pennsylvania Avenue (metro accessible) at 8:30 a.m. and kicks off the chauvinistic Brain Tumor Awareness Month.

The Race thanks greater corporate sponsors who have joined the run-in against thought tumors: Cassidy Turley, Genentech, Holliday, Fenoglio Fowler/The Conley Family, The Case Foundation, Children’s National Medical Center, Blue Mash Golf Course, Clear Channel Communications, Morgan Lewis, LivingSocial, GEICO, Katten Muchin Rosenman, Urban Country, Beacon Capital and Washington Examiner.

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