Be A Blessing 5K & 1M Fun Run

Race Overview

2025 Be A Blessing 5K & 1M Fun Run – Saturday, October 25, 2025 at Sam Peden Community Park at 9:00AM

Grab your favourite pair of sneakers and be part of us at our fifth Annual Be A Blessing 5K & 1M Fun Run, a community-wide, household pleasant occasion. Proceeds from the Be A Blessing 5K & 1M Fun Run go towards buying meals for over 2000 NAFCS preK – sixth grade kids in want on the weekends, when faculty meal applications are unavailable. Race with your loved ones, your pals, or your co-workers and collectively, we are able to serve hungry kids in our neighborhood one step at a time. 

The Be A Blessing 5K & 1M Fun Run is open to all skills and isn’t a timed occasion. You can stroll, jog, run, or stroll the course at your personal tempo alongside the paved path across the lake at Sam Peden Community Park. 

Each participant within the Be A Blessing 5K & 1M Fun Run will obtain a finishers medal and an Official Be A Blessing Race Shirt.(whereas provides final)  To assure your shirt measurement, you have to be registered by Wednesday, October eighth.

Race with your loved ones, your pals, or your co-workers and collectively, we are able to serve hungry kids in our neighborhood one step at a time.

New This Year

There’s a brand new method so that you can take part within the pleasure of the Be A Blessing 5K & 1M Fun Run! This yr you may assist us feed extra children than ever earlier than! Once you’ve registered, we’ll create a personalised fundraising web page only for you! You could make your web page much more particular by including images or details about why you’ve chosen to fundraise for Blessings in a Backpack Floyd County.

Your fundraising web page can have its personal a singular Event ID to make it simple to achieve your contacts and ask for his or her assist. Your family and friends can assist you and hungry children in our neighborhood from the consolation of their sofa.

Can’t make it on race day however nonetheless need to fundraise to assist feed native children, not an issue. Click the DONATE button on the principle menu and click on BECOME A FUNDRAISER.

100% of all donations go to masking the price of the meals that’s supplied to kids weekly, and the person elevating essentially the most cash will win an award!

About Blessings in a Backpack Floyd County

Blessings in a Backpack Floyd County is an initiative of New Albany Floyd County Education Foundation devoted to assuaging childhood starvation in Floyd County, Indiana.

Just underneath 1 in 6 Floyd County kids face meals insecurity. When faculty dismisses on Friday, 38% of NAFCS pre-k by means of sixth grade college students would go away their classroom not sure of whether or not they are going to have sufficient to eat till faculty begins once more subsequent Monday, if not for the work of Blessings in a Backpack Floyd County.

Through donations from native people and firms, Blessings in a Backpack Floyd County is ready to make sure that college students in want don’t go hungry over the weekend and might return to high school able to be taught. Blessings in a Backpack Floyd County serves kids in any respect 9 NAFCS elementary colleges and the three center colleges in our district.

Become a Sponsor

The Be A Blessing 5K & 1M Fun Run is a community-wide, household pleasant occasion. It not solely raises funds to assist alleviate childhood starvation in Floyd County, nevertheless it additionally raises consciousness to the necessity of our neighborhood kids. A Be A Blessing sponsorship immediately places your organization in entrance of a big viewers able to make a distinction in our neighborhood!

For extra data on how one can turn into a sponsor go to

Awards

Finisher medals might be awarded to all contributors. (whereas provides final)

Top Individual Fundraiser: The particular person elevating essentially the most funds for Blessings in a Backpack Floyd County will win an award. Funds should be by means of our race web site or turned in at Packet Pick-up, October twenty fourth, to be eligible.

Largest Team Award: The award will go to the group with essentially the most registered members. In order to win, your teammates should be registered previous to race day. Online registration closes Thursday October 23, 2025 at 11:59PM.

Fundraising

There’s a brand new option to take part within the pleasure of the Be A Blessing 5K & 1M Fun Run! This yr you may assist us feed extra children than ever earlier than! Once you’ve registered to take part, we’ll create a personalised fundraising web page only for you! You could make your web page much more particular by including images or details about why you’ve chosen to lift funds for Blessings in a Backpack Floyd County. 

Your fundraising web page can have its personal a singular Event ID too. We make it simple to achieve your contacts and ask for his or her assist. Your family and friends can assist you and hungry children in our neighborhood from the consolation of their sofa.

100% of all donations go to masking the price of the meals that’s supplied to kids weekly, and the person elevating essentially the most cash will win an award!

Can’t make it on race day however nonetheless need to fundraise to assist feed native children, not an issue. Click the DONATE button on the principle menu and click on BECOME A FUNDRAISER.

Packet Pick-Up

Friday, October 24, 2025  from 5:00pm – 7:00pm at:

NAFCS Education Support Center
2813 Grant Line Road
New Albany, IN 47150

Race Day

If you had been unable to attend packet pick-up, you may choose up your packet at registration sales space beginning 7:30AM.

You can register the morning of the race, however we’ll solely be capable of take money or test. Race Day registration costs are $40 for adults and $20 for youths 18 an underneath. Shirts and shirt sizes will solely be accessible whereas provides final.

Photo Release

By registering & collaborating within the Be A Blessing 5K & 1M Fun Run, you consent to pictures/movies of you for use for promotional functions by Blessings in a Backpack Floyd County.

Cancellation & Refund Policy 

Just a little rain received’t cease us! We will solely delay for lightning.

If the in-person race is canceled on account of extreme climate, an announcement might be made through fb for the morning of the race. All registered contributors will mechanically turn into digital runners and we’ll set a date so that you can choose up your medal.

FAQs

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Race particulars are topic to alter. Please seek the advice of the race web site to verify all occasion data.