September - 2016

FT400K!

FT400K!

$400,000. It’s a number that scares us as an executive board. It’s a number that we are nervous about. It’s a number that we know is going to take a lot of work to reach. But that’s the thing; we can reach this. We are the University of Northern Iowa and we are capable of raising $400,000. This year, we have set our goal to raise $400,000 by March 4, 2017! It is a big number, but when we were deciding what we wanted to set our fundraising goal as, we chose $400,000 because we

Banding Together FTK

Banding Together FTK

“I spent 100 out of the 180 days of Kindergarten in the hospital. From all of my visits I have a garbage bag full of hospital bands, I never want one on my wrist again. Although I hate them, they show me to never quit and to keep working for things like Dance Marathon.” -Veda Largent, UNI DM committee member and cancer survivor. All of us have reminders of hardships we overcame in our past. Whether is it a box of obituary’s, scars, a flower or the smallest token one can imagi

#EverydayFTK

#EverydayFTK

We are for the kids. You know that. Your grandma knows that. Everybody that has ever seen our apparel knows that FTK is associated with Dance Marathon. But why? Why are we FTK? Why are we working to fundraise hundreds of thousands of dollars for kiddos treated at the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital? Every year we talk about what UNI Dance Marathon stands for, yet we know that sometimes, people forget what FTK looks like on a daily basis. As an executive team, living ev

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