+ When you register and join team Rising Hearts, up to 10 of you could win a free Rising Hearts shirt!
+ When you register with an extra donation, up to 15 of you could win a free pair of running shoes!
+ Running For Justice shirts are still available via Rising Hearts - get your red and wear throughout the year! http://www.risinghearts.org/shop-heartwork
Rising Hearts is honored and grateful to bring the community together to honor, uplift, and send prayers for missing and murdered Indigenous relatives, their families, and for the advocates within these spaces - their dedication and their heart work to support the families, communities, the advocacy and finding solutions to end this epidemic.
In 2021, we were able to raise $75,000+! This is all thanks to the many participants that supported this event and campaign for awareness, and our Indigenous communities. We were able to donate over $30k to the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, $16k to Native Women’s Society of the Great Plains, as well as nearly a dozen $1500 - $600 donations to multiple MMIR families, advocates, survivors and organizations, doing the heart work to fight for justice and end this violence. In 2022, we were able to donate just over $21k to NIWRC, Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women, Sovereign Bodies Institute and more. Let’s do that again this year and reach our big fundraising goal to give back! And in 2023, we raised $18,000 that we were able to give back to the heart work to.
We have many voices doing this heart work to advocate and fight for a better future for our next generations. We continue to educate, advocate, create content, uplift, and build community to work towards that future together. This epidemic of violence has impacted our communities, across colonial borders, and is impacting so many families, whose stolen relatives have been erased, who are invisible (outside of Indigenous communities), families and relatives who experience racism on so many levels, and continue to not get the platform and space to be seen, heard, and fought for. We can change that. Be in community with us! Join us for this run/walk/event and be sure to join us in all the virtual events that are being organized for the week of action that you can participate in and learn from.
We have a big goal – to give back in a big way!
Join us in this virtual run and events to help us raise $20,000 to give back to the communities in this work so that we can end the violence and systemic barriers that are happening and to run for justice and healing.
Run in solidarity! Wear red and uplift this movement and the heart work.- Join a team or create a team- Purchase stickers- Sponsor a relative/donate an entry- Options to just donate
Let's continue to build community. Let's show up in whatever way we can to amplify and be part of a mobilized movement and call for change. Let's support those in this work and the families. Let's find solutions to ending this epidemic.
“The current reports of abduction and murder of Native women and girls are alarming and represent one of the most horrific aspects of the spectrum of violence committed against Native women. The issues surrounding missing and murdered Native women must be brought into the public's awareness to increase accountability of the justice systems. Now is the time for action!” -Lucy Simpson, Diné, NIWRC Executive Director
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EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO SUPPORT AND PARTICIPATE!Select the Trifecta and Save $35 Off Full Registration & Support All 3 Organizations!
Virtual Runners AND, new this year, in-person runners will have an opportunity to log your time of completion and post up to 5 photos online!
Once this item is 'sold out' there will be an opportunity to purchase one below!
UNCHECK to select a run/virtual option.
You are NOT registering a participant or family member - this is a donation to support a runner in need. The event team will issue a coupon code/s to a runner/s in need - Thank you!
Are you a runner in need? Please email: [email protected]
You are being a good relative by donating to someone in need!(This is not a sponsorship to your own personal relative)
I do not want to register.You are being a good relative by donating to someone in need!(This is not a sponsorship to your own personal relative)
Items will not be shipped internationally.You can still participate and post your times/photos!
Additional donations are evenly distributed to these organizations: National Indigenous Women's Resource Center (NIWRC), Missing & Murdered Diné Relatives Coalition (MMDRC), Coalition to Stop Violence against Native Women, and Rising Hearts - You Are Loved Community Grant for MMIR Families, Survivors and Advocacy Orgs / Advocates.
Acknowledge the Indigenous Lands you will run on by having it placed on your run bib. Unfortunately if you live abroad bibs are not shipped outside the United States/Turtle Island.
RESOURCES TO USE TO FIND THE INDIGENOUS LANDS YOU ARE ON:
A. Download the NativeLand App - this is a great resource.
B. Visit https://native-land.ca/
Would you like to join or create a team?
Tuscarora Woodworks Medal
Every Child Matters
Bundle of 5 Stickers3" Matte
Rising Hearts
Rising Hearts (Small)
Bundle of 5 Stickers1.5" Matte
Running with Purpose
Running on Native Lands (Brown)
Earth Day
Bundle of 5 Stickers
Be A Good Relative
Running for Justice
“I've been beading for several years now and I usually gift my jewelry to family and friends. However, the recent stories of missing and murdered Indigenous people (and all the stories before) inspired me to find a way to contribute more to the cause. I asked Rising Hearts if I could make something to raffle off to raise more money and awareness during their Running for Justice event and they were fully supportive. I wanted to make something that was specific to the missing and murdered Indigenous peoples cause and I found a beautiful pattern by @beadingmetis. It is my hope not only to raise money for this cause but by someone wearing this beadwork, there will be more awareness and conversations started about this crisis.” -Alex Staten (Diné + Mexican)
ALL FEES ARE NON-REFUNDABLE
