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R41P Actions!

Actions Taken = 26803
Miles Run = 11,000
Dollars Raised = $121,400

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Help Build the Legacy!

Run for One Planet runs right through its tour's finish line, launching its Legacy. The 2008/2009 run tour across Canada and around the USA, has already partnered with Canada's largest endowment organization, the Vancouver Foundation. Now it has folded Earth Run and Smencils into the eco-mix. The environmental action organization has always had its sights set long, on the Run for One Planet Legacy, which is filling out in three parts: The Legacy Fund, Action Ambassadors, and Team Run for One Planet. Each slice carries its own action-backed mission to bring about an overhaul in kid-centric environmental stewardship.

The Legacy Fund is the well of financial support for children's visions, and has been growing since the Run's inception. The capital investment came from the co-founders, their closest friends and family, and also local British Columbian businesses and widely known sponsors such as Planet Organic Market and BC Hydro Team Power Smart. All along the tour, donations have been collected from schools, businesses, individuals, even anonymous passersby, in anticipation of disbursement to child-initiated eco-projects. Directed by their students, schools will submit requests to fund, for instance, the building and maintenance of organic gardens, and recycling and compost programs, or even solar panel renovations, and low-flow water device installations. Each Legacy-backed endeavour will be imagined and carried out by kids.

Another arm of the Legacy will feature the assembly of Action Ambassadors, students who peer-educate in classrooms, eco-clubs, and school-wide about environmental stewardship. Using the 'Trickle-Up Effect' (where adults learn by osmosis through the ecologically sound actions of the kids around them), the youngsters will be 'trained' in the environmental knowledge platform of R41P, and help their friends (young and old) become more active at reducing their eco-footprints. Both the simple training manual and a thirty-minute downloadable presentation (Kids, Teach Your Parents Well'er) will help the Action Ambassadors to engage their classmates in environmental challenges, ultimately instilling an active respect for the natural world.

Finally, Team Run for One Planet (age twelve and under) will register annually in the Earth Run, which begins this year in Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto, and select cities in the USA and Spain. Racing locally in the Legacy's inaugural year, and keen to expand along with the Earth Run, Team R41P will raise awareness about the Legacy's mission – and earn their race registration– by selling Smencils. These are the pleasantly scented recycled newspaper-fibre writing sticks (fragrance-sealed inside their own corn-compostible tubes) that have made kids and adults alike grin with curiosity as they jot a note, or sign up for the Action Challenge. Dollar for dollar, with each Smencil sold dropping another buck into Team R41P's Legacy bucket, kids everywhere can be gleeful on Grape while eagerly Eliminating Plastic Bags.

To usher in the next phase of Run for One Planet, there is a whole new young crew to bolster into action. They will stand strong upon the Legacy Fund's firm foundation, Action Ambassadors united as pint-sized eco-warriors, and ready to sprint alongside Earth Runners everywhere. Until then, it's small steps adding up.

Partnership with the Vancouver Foundation
All donations from Canadian donors will receive a tax receipt.

To create a permanent philanthropic Legacy, the Run for One Planet has partnered with the Vancouver Foundation. Established in 1943, Vancouver Foundation is Canada's largest, and one of North America's oldest, community foundations. Vancouver Foundation supports charities throughout British Columbia, and is the custodian of over 1,200 endowment funds with a total market value of approximately $650 million.

The large size of the pooled asset base held by the Vancouver Foundation allows for competitive investment returns combined with low administrative fees (currently approximately 1% of the fund's total assets). As such, our partnership with the Vancouver Foundation allows us to maximize the financial impact of your sponsorship thereby ensuring the vast majority of income will be granted to green student initiatives, not overhead, for years to come.

All donated funds for Run for One Planet Legacy will not only be held in perpetuity, but with this partnership, you will also receive an official tax receipt for your sponsorship - deductible from your earned income in accordance with prevailing income tax regulations.

Please send all cheques to:
Run for One Planet Legacy
c/o Vancouver Foundation
Suite 1200 - 555 West Hastings Street
Box 12132, Harbour Centre
Vancouver, BC Canada V6B 4N6