Saturday, March 26, 2011 | Washington, DC

 

How to Join the Team

If you would like to join the RUN FOR AUTISM - National Marathon Team, please email run@researchautism.org for details.

 

Team Benefits

RUN FOR AUTISM t-shirt

Custom OAR dry-wick race singlet

Fundraising and Training Guide

RUN FOR AUTISM Newsletter

Once your fundraising reaches $50.00, you will be sent an OAR Runner's Kit. This kit includes the RUN FOR AUTISM t-shirt, specially designed race shirt and OAR information and fundraising material.

 

Fundraising

Runners are required to fundraise a minimum of $250. Runners have historically averaged raising between $1,000 and $1,500. Runners who raise $2,500 receive an OAR fleece as a special "thank you".

OAR encourages all runners to set a fundraising goal of at least $1200.

 

Why Run for Autism?

Raise money for 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.

The Organization for Autism Research (OAR) is a national, nonprofit organization formed and led by relatives of children and adults with autism and Asperger Syndrome. OAR is dedicated to promoting research that can be applied to help families, educators, caregivers, and individuals with autism find much-needed answers to their immediate and urgent questions. Committed to the excellence in its services to the autism community, OAR funds applied research that will make a difference in individual lives; provides information that is timely, useful, and cost-efficient; and offers opportunities for the autism community to collaborate and make advances together.

Whether you are a runner, walker, donor or volunteer, your contribution makes you part of OAR’s RUN FOR AUTISM team.

In the end, you will have made a difference in the lives of thousands of families living with autism.