Fundraising

By joining the RUN FOR AUTISM team, you are choosing to be a part of a group of committed individuals dedicated to participating in events to raise funds for autism research.

Fundraising Tools

OAR tries to make fundraising as easy as possible. In addition to a personal fundraising Web page, OAR offers tools for you to use to maximize your fundraising potential.

Personal RUN FOR AUTISM Poster - poster.pdf (4 MB)

Donation Form - donationform.pdf

Donation Record Form - donationrecord.pdf

Pledge Form - pledgeform.pdf

Sample Letter - sampleletter.pdf | sampleletter.doc

Fundraising Requirements

All events have predetermined fundraising minimums, which differ by 1) the race and 2) the nature of the participants registration. Currently, fundraising minimum's range between $250-$5000. You can read more about each race's fundraising minimum's by navigating the Event's page. OAR encourages our runners to set fundraising goals between $1250 and $1750.

Where the Money Goes

"OAR directs all its energies toward evidence-based research for the children, adults, and families living with autism today. No other autism organization has this singular focus."
OAR Scientific Council Chairman, Peter Gerhardt, Ed.D.

The purpose of OAR is to raise autism awareness and fund applied autism research. More than $.84 of every dollar you raise will directly fund research studies that help answer some of autism’s most pressing questions. Since its inception in 2003, the RUN FOR AUTISM has raised more than $3.1 million for applied autism research.

Your charitable donation helps OAR in multiple ways:

$1 supports sending a Life Journey through Autism resource guide to a parent or teacher.
$25 provides 25 copies of A Parent’s Guide to Research sent to a community support group.
$100 provides a full scholarship to OAR’s Applied Autism Research and Intervention Conference.
$250 enables an autism expert to participate in OAR’s Autism Research Convocation.
$1,000 provides a research grant for a graduate student studying autism.
$30,000 fully underwrites an applied research pilot study.