Summary
Organization name
Kids Running America
other names
KRA
2007
Tax id (EIN)
72-1590208
Category
Health Care
Address
16261 Hollyridge DrParker, CO 80134
Douglas County, CO, US
Please join us in providing the much needed physical fitness programming to Colorado school age children to help prevent and reduce the negative affects of childhood obesity. Your gift will help provide funding to entire districts, schools, and under served children within our community so they all can achieve an active and healthy lifestyle.
Testimonials
My granddaughter, is a first grader at Northridge Elementary School. Through the school, she learned of the Kids Running America Program.
The program has had a positive impact on her.
She feels proud and important that she has this special activity to attend before school. Her concentration on reading and math appears to be improved since she began. When given the option, she now prefers to walk rather than ride between my home and her home. This is a wonderful program, and your individual and astute attention to each runner makes it doubly valuable.
I hope this program continues on a regular basis because of it's positive impact.
Thank you.
Sincerely.
Joyce Horan
The Kids Running America Program has allowed my son to discover physical exercise in a non-competitive environment. Since participating he has dropped weight and is interested in eating healthier. Now the whole family is on board. Thanks to KRA!
Rhonda B.
Mission
Kids Running America is dedicated to preventing and reducing childhood obesity in America's school age children by increasing their physical activity level through our unique incremental running programs.
Background Statement
Kids Running America (KRA) is dedicated to preventing and reducing childhood obesity in America's school age children by increasing their physical activity level through our unique incremental running programs. Having achieved the goal of reaching over 13,000 school age children over the past seven years, we have created a proven program rooted in our Colorado community that has ultimately enabled us to take our programming into other states. KRA has since developed an exclusive customizable virtual mileage tracking map and mileage tracking system. In our journey, we have learned that children in Colorado's underserved areas are in need of programs such as ours and have given over 3,000 scholarships. Kids Running America has been recognized in the July 2011 issue of Woman's Running Magazine, awarded the Youth Contributed of the year for 2011 by Running USA and Executive Director Kerry Vargo was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by CPAHPERD (Colorado Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance) in 2013.
KRA is a program that encourages children to develop a love of physical activity. Over a given time frame children run various distances in order to complete a 26.2 mile marathon or a 100 mile ultra. KRA participants then earn the unforgettable reward of coming together to complete their personal goal at one of our premier Final Mile Events or through our turnkey curriculum programming outside the Final Mile Event reach on an ongoing basis. Here in Colorado we have two premier Final Mile Events offered during the spring and fall.
Our vision is to make Kids Running America available at a free or low cost to entire schools and districts in Colorado as well as making our program platform available to schools and organization nation wide.
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Organization Data
Parker, CO 80134