New York Road Runners partners with Haku for fundraising for charity teams. 100% of donations are directed to Anpo Wicahpi, the Pine Ridge Girls' School.
Nightingale Runs for Pine Ridge fundraising page for the TCS NYC Marathon 2025
(Contact Damaris Maclean at marathon@nightingale.org with questions.)
A few fundraising notes and suggestions:
Tell a personal story about why you decided to join this team and why you’d like the support of your community.
Share your fundraising page on social media, send it to your friends, family, and colleagues by email. A mailed letter with a personal note can mean a lot to a potential contributor.
People LIKE to contribute to charity teams but they do need to be asked.
It may seem like it will be easier to ask for support closer to Race Day, but it helps to have your page ready to go.
Damaris is available to help with any specific questions you may have. (e.g. yes, an offline donation can be counted towards your page)
If one of your donors would like to write a check rather than giving through the fundraising page, they can use the following address. (Do NOT send checks directly to the school address please.) Please be sure to let Damaris Maclean, so she can credit your fundraising page after confirming receipt with PRGS.
Pine Ridge Girls School
c/o Mark Eisenbraun
Walker Eisenbraun
5300 Memorial Drive, Suite 475
Houston, TX 77007
MEMO: Nightingale Runs for Pine Ridge.
If your donor has a matching gift program, please give them this EIN for the Pine Ridge Girls School: 46-3668492
From a previous member of Team Nightingale:
- My belief is that almost anyone is interested in supporting a good cause for $20-25 (often more) and supporting a friend running the marathon which most people are just in awe of. Most people just plan to donate and then never get back to the email -- best intentions. No one really seemed bothered by my nudging and often said "Thanks, I wanted to do this and forgot."
- On the 3rd and 2nd Saturdays before the marathon, I got up early and emailed all the people I'd emailed already who'd not yet donated and reminded them to do so. I wanted to be first in their Inbox on the weekend with the thought that they'd have more time to fill out the online form on a Saturday morning.
- I also emailed people in groups if there was a connection among them to me, e.g., the 8 or 9 people I ran with regularly in business school, my six closest friends from college. It was people who'd know each other well but were not in touch, so it was fun putting them all on an email together and inevitably one of them would hit REPLY ALL and say "Hey, everyone! Kath, I would love to donate!" or "Kathy, I cannot believe you are doing the marathon. I just donated $100." So, others in the group saw the replies.
- Finally, during the final week before the marathon I went out again to people I knew really, really well and knew they'd just forgotten to donate and wrote something like "Hey. I am about to get up at 5 a.m., get myself out to the Verrazano Bridge on a bus and run 26 miles. I haven't done this in 28 years and am scared to death. I need your $20 of support to do this!" I typically got $50.
Of course, you have to be a huge extravert like yours truly and really want to write all the notes and enjoy the contact and the reconnecting that comes with it. You also have to not be embarrassed to ask.