JFK Runway Run

• Date: April 13, 2008
• Address: JFK Airport, Queens, New York Get directions
• Country: United States
• Race type: Run (5k)
• Distances: Run (3.10 kms)
• Organization: JFK Rotary Club
• Website: http://www.jfkrunwayrun.org/
• Contact email: [email protected]
• Description: The "Run on the Runway" race has become one of the major fund raisers for the JFK Rotary Club. Funds raised from the race are used to support scholarships, sponsor terminally ill children from countries with limited medical and technological services, for life-saving heart operations at local hospitals through Rotary's Gift of Life Program, sponsors annual Christmas parties for handicapped children from the local schools (including Mill Neck Manor School for the Deaf) which is held in the Delta passenger terminal at JFK Airport. Last year's party [2005] was attended by over 300 children. Sponsors included Delta Airlines, Host Restaurants, North Fork Bank and others. The Club sponsors a barbecue for Learning Disabled children of PS 213 each spring of the year, initiated a new program in 1995 to provide Thanksgiving Dinners for needy families from the communities surrounding the Airport, helps with shipping of relief supplies to Rotary Clubs in distressed areas throughout the world and supported Katrina with used clothing and is presently working on support to earthquake victims in Pakistan with clothing and medical supplies.
  
• Members who are scheduled to race: