REGISTER NOW! for the June 2, 2024  9 AM start for the 17th annual 5K AIDS / Cancer Run / Walk. The run / walk will start and finish at Baldwin Park, 3232 Grand Avenue, Baldwin, NY 11510.   You can also raise funds by clicking this donation file.   Click on file and you can print a hard copy,

All registrants will receive $25 in gift certificates from some of my favorite restaurants / bars in Nassau and Suffolk County including

($5 each) from Runyon’s of Seaford; Lido Kosher Deli, and The Cabana (both from Long Beach) + $10 from Remy’s Italian Restaurant of Hewlett.

Thank you to all the runners, volunteers and sponsors who made the 2008 – 2020 5K AIDS / Cancer Run / Walk possible

5th Annual 5K AIDS Cancer Run Walk

above: Miss New York of 2009, far left, Kayla Sully, along with the team of NIKE athletes. below: start of 2012 5K AIDS Cancer Run Walk

 

 start of the 2011 5k AIDS Cancer Run Walk, photo above, courtesy of John Schandler of NIKE.  Special thanks to Fred Benlein, WE ARE ATHLETES, and the parents of boy scout troop #239 for helping out on race day.

To view a 6-minute video of the 2009 5K Event, prepared by mysn.tv, watch video now.

We’re not just another 5K, photos below were taken in June 2013 at Steven & Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York, formerly known as Schneider Children’s Hospital of New Hyde Park, Five Towns Community Center of Lawrence, South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, and Five Towns Community Center of Lawrence. Each of the above 4 groups, and pictured below, received $2,500+/- in toys. From the June 2013, 5K AIDS Cancer Run Walk,  the Richard M. Brodsky Foundation was able to donate $450 to each of the following organizations: Center of AIDS Research & Treatment / CART at North Shore University Hospital, Five Towns Community Service AIDS Program , Long Island Breast Cancer Coalition, Ronald McDonald House and Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York.

start of the 2013 5K AIDS Cancer Run Walk in North Woodmere Park

donating $450 to Ronald McDonald House

we really appreciate our participants, sponsors and volunteers and all participants received a certificate of completion.

pictured below (right to left) Jodi & Richard Brodsky, Michael Swensen & Kelly Skrapits (both from Cohen Children’s Medical Center of NY). Banner donated by Pip Printing & Marketing Services of Inwood.

Having a tough week and you feel as if your back, leg and knee are all plotting to keep you grounded from running for the next month. This is your wake-up call; you should be grateful to feel those aches and pains, at least you’re alive to feel. Millions of people who are no longer here just wish they could feel your aches and pains. Look forward to that  brisk walk or run in a park to start your day.

320 finishers completed the 5K AIDS Cancer Run Walk on June 10, 2012. Thank you to all who participated, our sponsors and volunteers as well.

 

The Park is at the southerly end of Grand Avenue, Baldwin. From Sunrise Highway, take Grand Avenue south and the park starts where Grand Avenue ends. Take the road for about 3/4 mile inside the park and stay to the left. Plenty of parking on left side just before the tennis courts.

A Special Plea: Since 2004, The Richard M. Brodsky Foundation has sponsored or co-sponsored 19 World AIDS Marathons in Mbita & Kisumu, Kenya and Rockaway, NY and the Foundation has sponsored 53 festive orphan dinner dances for 13,795 Kenyan orphans and has provided medical care for 3,299 Kenyan orphans . In America, the Foundation has donated $370,000+ (from 2015 through March 23, 2024) in cash, toys,toiletry/gift items to children and adults (many of them living with pediatric cancer) and others who are HIV+, cancer survivors, or from low-income families. A few of the organizations include Steven & Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York, South Nassau Communities Hospital of Oceanside, Winthrop Pediatric Associates of Hempstead, St. John’s Episcopal Hospital of Far Rockaway, Northwell Health and its Client Advisory Board at Center of AIDS Research & Treatment, LIFQHC Family Health Centers, and  Five Towns Community Center of Lawrence. Please consider bringing a new toy to the 5K AIDS Run Walk so my Foundation may continue to do its part to help children in America.

The Richard M. Brodsky Foundation’s mission is about easing the pain and discomfort of HIV-positive people and cancer survivors, and giving them hope that they can participate in sporting events, even if the first event is participating in a 5K Walk.