Greetings Grandma’s Marathon Volunteers,
We have several exciting updates to share, so let’s dive in!
Virtual Race Volunteer Support
While
we may not be able to come together to support the runners this year,
we are inviting volunteers and community to share messages of cheer and
motivation
to support those striving to complete their Virtual Races. Volunteers
participating will also be eligible for prizes for helping spread cheer!
Below are a few different ways you can show your support:
- · Create a poster cheering on the runners
- · Play an instrument
- · Sing a song
- · Show off a talent
- · Dress up in costume
- · Show off your dance moves
Feel
free to get creative and have fun with these! Chalk art on the sidewalk
instead of posters, pots and pans can be your instruments, using apps
like
TikTok to add some music and graphics to your videos—we would love to
share all of it! #GTeam #GMas20
Runners have from May 4th until July 31st to complete their distances virtually, so start sending some cheer and feel free to keep
it coming throughout! The runners will appreciate all the support they can get. Please send pictures and videos to
Tara@GrandmasMarathon.com
Volunteer Appreciation
(cause you all are pretty great!)
To
extend our gratitude for all your support, we are pleased to share that
we be giving out the 2020 Volunteer shirts! So, if you haven’t received
a call
from me yet checking your shirt size (and to see how you’re doing,
cause times are tough!), you can also fill out our
Volunteer
Appreciation Program
form found on our website.
Distribution
of the shirts will certainly will be a process, as we still need to
follow recommended public health and safety guidelines and will have to
approach the distribution in a thoughtful manner. We will be sending
details and information via email and the G-Team Volunteer Facebook page
as updates are available.
In
addition to the volunteer shirts, and when we can responsibly gather
again, Grandma’s Marathon will be throwing a Volunteer Appreciation
event! We can’t
say it enough, we have THE BEST community of volunteers and each of you
inspire goodwill of the human spirit. So when we return for our 45th,
we are looking forward to our community coming together to prove we are
stronger together and we will get through
this with more heart and compassion than ever.
What is the Volunteer Appreciation Program?
Who
would have known that summer day in June of 1977 that after 44 years
the celebration of the human spirit would continue strong? We hope to
gather the
history of all those who have volunteered to make Grandma’s Marathon
the world-class event with small-town charm and reward them for their
years of service.
If
you have volunteered with Grandma’s Marathon in the past, or know of
someone who has, please fill out this form to enter our volunteer
appreciation
program where we look forward to celebrating all our big-hearted and
devoted volunteers.
Form
G-Team Volunteer Facebook Group
Volunteers
are invited to join our official volunteer Facebook group where they
can see updates from Grandma’s Marathon, share stories, ask questions,
post pictures, and celebrate being part of this community of
big-hearted people like yourself! You can join the Grandma's Marathon
G-Team Volunteer group by clicking
HERE.
Again,
THANK YOU all for being a part of the Grandma’s Marathon community of
volunteers and sharing compassion for the runners from all over the
globe.
Your acts of kindness for the runners (and our greater community) are
bar none. Truly.
From all of us at Grandma’s Marathon—Thank you.
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