Crowdrise

Over the last couple of years I have met some pretty incredible people. Carey Socol is one of them. We met at outside of our kid’s school last fall a few weeks before I was to run my first marathon to raise funds and awareness about one of the biggest barriers to access reproductive health services - distance. Carey was running too, the 2011 NYC ING Marathon was to be her 20th marathon. It was too late at that point for her to join our team but she said she’d be happy to wear an Every Mother Counts jersey.

Just as I was finally taking a week to unwind late this summer, I got another one of those calls that changed my life. Our friends at Crowdrise checked in to ask, "Does Every Mother Counts want ten spots in the NYC Marathon?" There was no question that we did, but what I didn't realize was that I would also be running. Crowdrise is a crowd-sourcing platform through that we have been working with since Mother's Day and more recently worked with to raise funds to send a container of medical supplies to South Sudan. Being the great partners they are, they were offered several slots for the marathon to be used for charities and nicely thought of us.