Students Run LA
The mission of Students Run LA is to challenge underserved secondary students to experience the benefits of goal-setting, character development, adult mentoring and improved health by providing them with a truly life-changing experience: The training for and completion of the Los Angeles Marathon.
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2 Submitted Ideas
CREATE ·2025 Grants ChallengeStudents Run LA’s Alumni Program
Students Run LA (SRLA) empowers more than 3,000 middle and high school students each year to train for and complete the LA Marathon, promoting goal setting, character development, and healthy living. This fall, SRLA is launching an Alumni Program to support students beyond high school with mentorship and career guidance. Funding will support workshops, mixers, and races that connect recent high school graduates and college-aged alumni to strengthen community and promote college retention.
CONNECT ·2020 Grants Challenge#FutureVoters: Students' Next Finish Line
The Civics Center (TCC) and Students Run LA (SRLA) will increase voter awareness, registration, and turnout in LA County by leveraging their networks, volunteers, expertise, and resources to expand outreach to highschool students, their teachers and families in predominantly underrepresented Latinx communities. TCC will work with SRLA to create student-led voter registration (VR) drives at SRLA races and SRLA high schools in majority Latinx and other diverse communities to promote civic volunteerism, responsibility and democratic participation.