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$144 Raised
9.9% of $1,450 goal
41 Days Left

0 of 5 runners are covered — $290 covers one runner.

A runner in worn-out shoes gets hurt. Spikes are what they race in. Both wear out on schedule, and the schedule does not care what the season costs a family.

We are raising $1,450 so that about five Carson City-Crystal runners can start in shoes that fit and spikes that grip. Training shoes are $160 a pair, racing spikes $130 — $290 for a runner properly shod.

NOBODY HAS ASKED US YET, AND WE THINK WE KNOW WHY

Not one athlete has come to us for shoes this season. We could let you assume that means five runners are waiting, and it would help us raise this faster. It would not be true.

What is true is that we have nothing to offer them. A fifteen-year-old does not ask a charity for running shoes on the chance it might say yes — they run in what they have and say nothing, which is exactly what the coaches see every year. A locker with shoes in it is what makes asking possible. An empty one produces silence, and silence is not the same as no need.

So this is money raised slightly ahead of the request rather than behind it. We would rather tell you that than dress it up.

HOW IT WORKS WHEN SOMEBODY DOES ASK

An athlete or their family asks. A board member — not the coach — looks into it, and the board decides. We are not handing kit to whoever asks first, and the people who fund this are entitled to know that somebody other than the person standing at the finish line is making the call.

What stays private is the outcome. The decision is recorded, the money is accounted for on our accountability page, and no teammate ever learns who was helped. Discretion is about the changing room, not about the books.

Donated shoes go into the same locker, and we check them properly — a midsole that has done more than 350 miles is recycled rather than passed on, however good it looks, because a compressed shoe is how a runner gets injured.

IF WE RAISE MORE THAN WE NEED

The balance stays with the program and goes to the next runners who need help. It does not go anywhere else, and every dollar spent from it appears on our accountability page with what it bought.

Every mile starts with an opportunity. Thank you for giving our runners theirs.

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This is what the money is for. If cost is what is standing between you and the season, ask us — it takes a couple of minutes and nobody outside our board sees it.

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A sponsor can cover this whole campaign and put their name on it. Shoes, spikes, a seat on the bus, a place at camp — you pick the thing, we tell you exactly who it reached.

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FOR BUSINESSES

No business has put their name to this season yet.

Sponsorship here buys a specific thing, not a logo slot — a pair of spikes, a seat on the bus, a week at camp. We tell you exactly what yours paid for, and your name sits on the campaign it funded.

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