Did you know 62 children enter a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital every single minute? As you may have read in our last blog, this year we are telling the stories of those 62 children. We are putting faces to names and projects to dollars. This year, we are telling #620ThousandStories by aiming to raise 620,000 dollars. Because we are already putting the kiddos at the forefront of our fundraising, events, and awareness efforts, why not put them in front of our organization wide goal as well? You may be thinking, WOW, that is a big number. But we would invite you to think: what would a goal be if it did not foster challenge and growth? How can we challenge ourselves and others to continue
This year University of Northern Iowa Dance Marathon is taking a pledge on something we have never done before. Here on UNI’s campus, our mission is to provide hope and comfort for families with children facing life threatening illness and injury by raising money for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and hosting events that heighten student and community awareness. Each year UNI Dance Marathon continues to raise the bar and blow our goals out of the water, which is exactly why this year we will be putting our kiddos at the forefront and asking each Dance Marathon member to #ShareYourStory. Hoping take our program to heights we’ve never been before, the stories shared will be from many
"YES! I love Dance Marathon and everything about it. We dance for the chance, cause there is no other way. UNI DM is FTK." Dance Marathon is a way to step out of your comfort zone and be a part of something bigger than yourself. As college students, this can be scary. "I don't have a lot of time. I'm constantly sleep deprived. I have no extra money." These are all things running through college students' minds before joining a campus organization and stretching themselves and their busy schedules in more ways than they thought possible. I'm sure you've heard this plenty of times, but Dance Marathon is different. Dance Marathon fights for a cure for children facing life threatening illnesses
