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For more than 25 years, RunCzech has promoted a culture not only of physical fitness and mental health, but of social and environmental responsibility. In fact, with every race we stage we pledge our financial support to a variety of causes that are important to runners, and to their communities. What’s more, we advocate for the organizations behind those causes by broadcasting their stories to our vast network of runners and running enthusiasts in more than 40 countries around the world.

A complete list of the charitable organizations we support appears below. They include funding the planting of 30,000 trees in 2022. Furthermore we host competitions for high school students, with winning schools receiving donations of much-needed athletic equipment, helping to keep kids engaged in sports and out of trouble. Through the generous support of our sponsors, we also fund efforts to care for senior citizens and for thousands of people with disabilities.  And much more.

As part of our efforts to make the world a kinder, more livable place, we go to tremendous lengths to ensure that the races themselves are not disruptive to the environment.  We have implemented a vast recycling program.  We repurpose every scrap of material that we can.  We are converting more and more to electric vehicles. And we employ an army of volunteers at every event who make sure that we leave our courses better and cleaner than the way we found them. 

We are doing all we can to be good corporate citizens. And in the process, we hope that we are setting a good example for how the world should run.

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  2. Choose the payment option via QR code.
  3. Scan the QR code located at the non-profit organization you want to support.
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Charities

Světluška (Firefly)

Světluška (Firefly) was launched in 2003 as the flagship project of the Czech Radio Endowment Fund. The purpose of ‘Světluška’ is to enable the visually impaired to aim to independent and authentic life based on their own choices. We support individuals with visual impairment of all ages as well as NGOs throughout the whole Czech Republic. Each year we distribute direct financial support to more than 300 children, teenagers, adults as well as seniors with visual impairment helping them cope with daily activities, enabling them study, work, do sports or use special assistive technologies. More than two thirds of all support is distributed to NGOs including social services, special schools, or disability sports clubs.

nadace partnerství | LIDÉ A PŘÍRODA

The largest Czech charitable foundation for environmental protection. We help manage the effects of the climate crisis, support tree planting and educate children and adults in the Open Garden. Together for people and nature for 30 years.

Nábor hrdinů

Every year in the Czech Republic, hundreds of children and adults become ill with leukemia or another hematopoietic disorder. For some patients, a bone marrow transplant is the only hope for recovery, but one in four patients will not find their savior in the bone marrow donor registry. The NÁBOR HRDINŮ organization organizes recruitment events for the bone marrow donor register throughout our country and dispels the myths associated with a donation with lectures in companies and schools. We wish that every patient finds their hero and gets hope for life.

Nadační fond Aktivní Česko

Aktivní ČESKO is a multi-sector platform in which a number of non-profit and for-profit companies are connected. Our goal is to combine forces, resources and scope for the joint promotion of regular physical activity and an active life not only as an integral part of taking care of one’s own health, but also as an important part of the state’s preventive and curative care.

Zdravotní klaun

Health Clown is a charitable organization that, since 2001, has been helping especially children, but also geriatric patients, to go through the treatment process with a smile. The mission of the Health Clown is to bring joy, good mood, and above all hope to places where there is not much of it. These are mainly children’s hospital rooms, specialized ambulances, households caring for seriously ill children.

Pink Bubble Foundation

We help young people whose lives have been complicated by cancer. Whether they are going through challenging treatment or starting to get back on their feet. We affectionately call our beneficiaries “BUBBLES” and we take a personal approach to each of their stories and needs. That’s because each person who comes to us is unique to us.

Running with those that can’t

With the help of individuals and companies, We are raising funds to purchase special wheelchairs which we donate to those who need it.

Centrum Bazalka

Centrum BAZALKA is non-profital, non-governmental organization based in České Budějovice. We provide social services for children with multiple and severe disabilities and also for children with autism spectrum disorders. We offer daycare and also residential care for 5 days a week. Since 2008 we provide education for children with disabilities and special needs in our elementary school and kindergarten. Integral part of our services is physiotherapy. At the moment we provide care for more than 40 clients in the age range between 3 and 40 years.

Spolek Trend vozíčkářů

Spolek Trend vozíčkářů Olomouc (“Association of Persons Using Wheelchairs”) is a non-profit organization which offers the personal assistance service to people with physical and combined disabilities.

Light for the world

Light for the World´s mission is to cure and prevent avoidable blindness and to support persons with disabilities in the least developed countries. Our projects include cataract surgeries, prevention and treatment of river blindness and trachoma, also inclusion of children with disabilities into the society.

Journey to a Dream

Journey to a Dream organizes sports and adventure events, where teams of healthy and disabled people form together. Everyone can get involved without any differences. The organization organizes, for example, the longest cycling event in the Czech Republic or a series of quadriathlons in winter and summer disciplines. They have long supported disabled children or the elderly in sports and exercise.

Nadace Krása Pomoci

Our mission is to accompany aging. We provide modern services for seniors in a home environment and obtain funding for projects for seniors. Our daily job is to help the elderly. We try to be flexible and respond to the specific needs of our senior clients. We help, for example, with a home care facility, with the processing of various contributions, with communication with the authorities, or we can also connect seniors with volunteers.

Ústí Community Foundation

Thanks to donations from corporate and individual donors, we support over 100 projects of non-profit organizations and individuals every year, mainly in the districts of Děčín, Litoměřice, Louny, Teplice and Ústí nad Labem.

Domov Svatého Josefa

The mission of the Home of St. Josefa’s life is easier with multiple sclerosis We strive for greater self-sufficiency of seriously ill patients with multiple sclerosis and their caregivers in institutional care and in the home environment. We are based on the founding documents of our parent organization Oblastní charita Červený Kostelec and the documents by which the state authorizes us to perform the service.

Good Fairies

The Good Fairies have been individually helping children from three Central Bohemian children’s homes for 5 years. They meet the children every week in their “homes”. They know what they like, what makes them happy and what do they worry about. The Fairies know the story of each of „their“ one hundred children. They give them the most valuable – their time, love and attention. They help them to prepare for school and do the things they like to do. The Fairies teach the children and help to develop their independence and self-confidence. We do not influence what children have experienced, but we want them to believe that they can be happy.

Dělej, co tě baví (Do what you like) – Youth Council 2023

The Interscholastic Conference of the Younger Youth Council is an event with a great tradition to promote the education of high school youth. Its focus is on sharing ideas among peers. Their time spent together on current topics and the opportunity to learn how to present and defend their views to an audience of other high school students helps them understand each other, including their teachers. This year’s event is focused on MENTAL HEALTH and will also be ONLINE.

Achilleus

Get the kids on their feet with us! Everyone wants a healthy baby. But it doesn’t always come true. EVERY SECOND DAY in the Czech Republic, a mother learns that her child will be born with so-called golfer’s foot / lat. dog equinovarus. Parents are scared, full of fear, worries and questions. The patient organization Achilleus accompanies families throughout the treatment, we provide information, comfort, support, but most importantly an answer to the fundamental question that their child will one day walk. Come and get the children on their feet together with us!