The following is a guest post from Brian of Dashing Dad.
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Dashing Dad supports Mountain Circle, a Northern California organization that helps foster kids.
Foster kids have a special place in my heart. The Dashing Sister is adopted, and my other sister (who isn’t legally my sister, but try to stop us from being a family) has adopted five foster kids. All these kids now have a chance in life because she brought them into her (our) family. It doesn’t matter that one looks Norwegian, and another could have hailed from the Kalahari Desert.
All they see is family.
In 2013, I was working at the expo for the California International Marathon and met with the folks at Running with the Bears. Running with the Bears is a group from Mountain Circle, an organization that supports foster kids in Northern California. They have a race where the proceeds go to support foster kids. I decided to sign up as a charity runner. I managed to raise $500 for foster kids, and I signed up again to be a charity runner next year. The race was one of the best I have ever attended. Great people, great support, (beautiful course) and it wall went to a good cause. Despite only having 300 or so runners, they raised more than $20,000!
This cause helps kids have a chance in life. Instead of growing up on the streets, or in gangs, Mountain Circle gives these kids homes, education, and opportunities to be kids. Who knows? One of these kids might discover a cure for cancer.
If you want to read about my experience with the Running with the Bears Marathon, check out my account on Dashing Dad. If you want to donate to Mountain Circle, go to the organization’s website. If you want to support me in my charity goal, go to this link.
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Last week, the White House and Vice President Joe Biden played host to a group of foster children for a screening of the remake of the movie Annie. During the event, the White House also announced a number of initiatives to help the more than 400,000 foster kids in the U.S.
A new PSA campaign from the U.S. Children’s Bureau, the Ad Council, and AdoptUSKids launched in November. If you haven’t seen these videos from the AdoptUSKids, check them out. They might make parents look a little silly sometimes, but that’s advertising hyperbole, and the point is you don’t have to be perfect to be the perfect fit for a kid.
