Hi Everyone! This year, I’m running the New York City Marathon and I’ve partnered with HeartShare Human Services of New York to do it for a purpose.
As part of running the marathon, I’ve committed to raising $5,000 to support HeartShare’s incredible work with children and adults with developmental disabilities and families in need across New York. This isn’t just a goal—it’s a requirement for me to be on that starting line.
HeartShare provides education, housing, job training, and life-changing support to people who deserve every opportunity to thrive. Their impact is real, and it’s why I chose to run on their behalf.
If you’re able to contribute—even a small amount—it would truly mean a lot and bring me one step closer to both the starting line and this fundraising goal. Every dollar makes a difference.
Thank you for being part of this journey with me
About HeartShare:
For over 150 years, Heartshare has been dedicated to championing and empowering New Yorkers society has too often overlooked and underestimated. Our work centers around removing obstacles, building stability, and allowing for greater self-belief, self-advocacy, and independence.
We support two specific populations across all of New York City: children and families navigating the child welfare system, and children and adults with developmental disabilities.
Each population faces its own distinct set of challenges and obstacles — and we are set up accordingly to meet them with understanding, evidence-based solutions, and interconnected programming.
About Developmental Disabilities Services
Since opening our first group home in 1977, we have focused on empowering people with autism and other developmental disabilities to reach their full potential through education, vocational training, the arts, housing, family support and long-term
therapy services. When someone enters Heartshare, they receive our commitment: to champion and support them, to create pathways to health and stability, to help them achieve their personal definition of independence.
About St. Vincent’s Family Services
Heartshare St. Vincent’s Family Services champions and empowers the overlooked and underestimated of New York City — specifically children, youth and families dealing with the instability and trauma related to family separation, poverty and mental health conditions. For over 150 years, the agency has adapted and expanded services to answer the needs of the NYC community. We continue to meet people where they are, bringing with us empathy, acceptance, and belief. We now provide an ecosystem of support to over 8,000 children, youth, and families annually — helping them repair and rewrite their own definition of family, so that they can own it and use it as a strength moving forward.