Love4Lucas 2023 4th Annual 5K Run/Walk/Bike Virtual Race
Oct
27
to Oct 29

Love4Lucas 2023 4th Annual 5K Run/Walk/Bike Virtual Race

Please join us for Love4Lucas' 4th Annual 5k Run/Walk/Bike Event to support the Love4Lucas Foundation!

Our 2023 5K event is our biggest fundraiser of the year. Just go 5K (3.1 miles) ANYWHERE and ANYTIME from Saturday, October 28 - Sunday, October 29, 2023.

Thanks to our supporters, we raised almost $30,000 in 2020, $40,000 in 2021, and $40,000 in 2022. Your generosity allowed us to donate 100% of the proceeds to research organizations dedicated to finding a cure for DIPG. In 2022, we donated $50,000 to the Children's Brain Tumor Project. CBTP has been using the funds to directly support their focus on targeted therapy and drug delivery approaches.

In 2021-2022, we donated $50,000 to the DIPG/DMG Collaborative, which funds both clinical and translational research.

We hope you will consider supporting our cause again this year!

You can run, walk, bike, or dance your way to the finish line - it is your choice! Register yourself or the whole family and join us for a fun family-friendly and inspiring event!

The Love4Lucas Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization (EIN: 83-0604592) created in honor of Lucas Harashima. On September 17, 2016, at the age of 5, Lucas was diagnosed with DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma). DIPG is an aggressive brain tumor that affects children between the ages of 4 and 11 and interferes with all bodily functions. Lucas died on March 21, 2018, just a few months shy of his 7th birthday.

All proceeds from the event will benefit the Love4Lucas Foundation's mission to fund research towards a cure for DIPG and to support families battling DIPG. Unfortunately, the prognosis for DIPG remains very poor. More research and funding are desperately needed and with love, energy, and hope, we can all be a part of the fight. #love4lucas #love4lucasfoundation #love4lucas5k

To sign up, go to: runsignup.com/Race/NY/PoundRidge/L4LVirtual5KRunWalk


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Love4Lucas 2nd Annual 5K Run/Walk/Bike Virtual Race
Oct
30
to Oct 31

Love4Lucas 2nd Annual 5K Run/Walk/Bike Virtual Race

Please join us for Love4Lucas' 2nd Annual 5k Run/Walk/Bike Event to support the Love4Lucas Foundation!

Our 2021 5K event is our biggest fundraiser of the year. Just go 5K (3.1 miles) ANYWHERE and ANYTIME from Saturday, October 30 - Sunday, October 31, 2021.

You can run, walk, bike, or dance your way to the finish line - it is your choice! Register (link in comments) yourself or the whole family and join us for a fun family-friendly and inspiring event!

The Love4Lucas Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization created in honor of Lucas Harashima. On September 17, 2016, at the age of 5, Lucas was diagnosed with DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma). DIPG is an aggressive brain tumor that affects children between the ages of 4 and 11 and interferes with all bodily functions. Lucas died on March 21, 2018, just a few months shy of his 7th birthday.

All proceeds from the event will benefit the Love4Lucas Foundation's mission to fund research towards a cure for DIPG and to support families battling DIPG. Unfortunately, the prognosis for DIPG remains very poor. More research and funding are desperately needed and with love, energy, and hope, we can all be a part of the fight. #love4lucas #love4lucasfoundation #love4lucas5k

For sign up, click on button below or go to: runsignup.com/Race/NY/PoundRidge/L4LVirtual5KRunWalk

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Love4Lucas Virtual 5k Run/Walk - Halloween Weekend
Oct
31
to Nov 1

Love4Lucas Virtual 5k Run/Walk - Halloween Weekend

Please join us for Love4Lucas' 1st 5k Run/Walk Event to support the Love4Lucas Foundation! Run, walk, skip, doesn't matter! Just go 5K ANYWHERE and ANYTIME from Saturday, October 31st - Sunday, November 1st. Register yourself or the whole family and join us for a fun and inspiring event! Go the extra mile and help fund raise! 100% of the proceeds will go towards the foundation's mission.

Take photos and/or videos and share with us and on social media. #love4lucas5k

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Love4Lucas Fest 2020 (CANCELLED DUE TO PANDEMIC)
Jun
6
12:00 PM12:00

Love4Lucas Fest 2020 (CANCELLED DUE TO PANDEMIC)

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It saddens us to announce that we will be canceling Love4Lucas Fest 2020 in June for health and safety reasons. We will keep monitoring the situation to see if there is another way to celebrate Lucas and support DIPG and PRES later this year. In the meantime, our family will join yours in doing the best we can to support our community and small business owners during this challenging time for all .

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Love4Lucas Fest 2019
Jun
8
11:00 AM11:00

Love4Lucas Fest 2019

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The Pound Ridge Elementary School PTA and the Love4Lucas Foundation partnered to create the first annual LOVE4LUCAS FEST—a kid-focused, family-friendly event to celebrate silliness, joy and giving at the Pound Ridge Elementary School on Saturday, June 8, 2019. Kids and families enjoyed a variety of on-site games and activities, while enjoying music/DJ, and food trucks with lunch, snacks, and dessert options. All proceeds from the event will go towards supporting the Love4Lucas Foundation and the PRES PTA. Thank you to Nurse Sue Novak and John Morgan who documented the day with photos:

 
 

Thank you to our local businesses who generously donated to support the Love4Lucas Fest event! Please support our community of businesses who are involved in many local events and charities.

Thank you to our food vendors who supported Love4Lucas Fest

 
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WGSN Futures
Nov
2
9:00 AM09:00

WGSN Futures

The WGSN Marketing team and event staff all wore #Love4Lucas tees in support of Sansan, Lucas and family. Swag bags for attendees also featured a postcard explaining our campaign to raise awareness and funds to beat DIPG.

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Tag Sale 4 Lucas
Aug
17
10:30 AM10:30

Tag Sale 4 Lucas

Laura Eckholm, Marisa Manos and their families held an epic Tag Sale for Lucas in our community, Pound Ridge. Thanks for your amazing work on a hot day! Also thanks to those who donated their treasures, baked treats for the sale and everyone who shopped!

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Sun's Concert
Aug
11
8:00 PM20:00

Sun's Concert

On Friday, Lucas and our family were treated to a wonderful and moving musical benefit concert at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel church in Tenafly, NJ. Our dear friend and talented flutist, Sun Cho, put together this concert to raise funds for Lucas’ medical costs. The music performed by the Grand House Ensemble was beautiful and the last song, Over the Rainbow, literally had the room in tears. Music has a way of touching the heart in a very direct way and everyone in the room felt it. The event raised nearly $6,500.

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Maxwell's Violin Practice
Aug
7
10:30 AM10:30

Maxwell's Violin Practice

Maxwell pledged to practice daily in July to put on Suzuki Book 1 graduation solo recital to raise money and show his #love4lucas and he did it! He played 9 songs including one duet with his father. Thank you to our friends and family for donating and supporting Lucas and Maxwell!

"This is for Lucas!" 💛Maxwell

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Despicable Me 3 Screening
Jul
3
9:00 AM09:00

Despicable Me 3 Screening

Movie magic - Lucas got to watch Despicable Me 3 with 165 buddies. THANK YOU to the businesses who sponsored the event, to our friends who signed up for a 9am movie on a Sunday, to Karissa, Pete and Tara who organized and executed the movie, raffle, etc. and to The Prospector movie theater in Ridgefield. If you're local and haven't been, this place is so special. They hire and train adults with disabilities and give them a chance to sparkle.

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Lara Damashek's Lemonade Stand
Jun
23
10:30 AM10:30

Lara Damashek's Lemonade Stand

Let's see what the kids can do! We hope you will host your own fundraiser for Lucas... perfect activity for a hot day! Ellie and her friends raised $116 in one hour and they collected feel better notes for Lucas which we can't wait to deliver to him! we got this!!! #love4lucas #lemonadeforlucas

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