REGISTER NOW! 17th annual 5K AIDS / Cancer Run / Walk, June 2, 2024. 9 am race start, arrive by 8:30am. There is no charge for people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer or Veterans. Please contact me, Richard, at richardm.brodsky@gmail.com and I will advise you how to register for FREE and no one will know your medical condition. We will also have a FREE toddlers 1/4 mile run for kids 4 and under; all toddlers get a medal. Toddler event starts at 8:30 am and lineup begins at 8:15 by tennis courts. No advance registration required for toddlers. Steve Mitchell, ELVIS PRESLEY impersonator will be performing from 11:45am – 12:45 pm.

All participants will receive a $5 gift certificates (no minimum purchase required) from Runyon’s of Seaford,  Lido Kosher Deli, The Cabana (both from Long Beach), and a $10 certificate from Remy’s Italian Restaurant of Hewlett. We would like to thank all our sponsors especially those whose logos, names and websites listed on the bottom of this page for donating $200+ to any one Foundation sponsored Event

To print a FREE 5K AIDS / Cancer Run / Walk poster, click on the poster below and save as a JPG file and then print file.To print a JPG file to be used for a TV ad in a supermarket, movie theatre, bowling alley, school, night club, place of worship, etc, click on the poster below and save as a JPG file.

My name is Richard Brodsky and I am President of the Richard M. Brodsky Foundation. Welcome to the Foundation’s 17th annual 5K AIDS / Cancer Run / Walk in America.  As you will notice, this website is about much more than a 5K; it is about changing & saving lives. It is about daring you to get off your behind, putting down the TV clicker, and facing each day knowing that YOU are starting over. You’ve been granted that second chance, that third chance, whatever.

Your mission for the day is to believe in yourself. Buy, borrow, or beg for a pair of running shoes. Next, call your doctor and tell him that “I’m taking up running, am I healthy enough?” If he says, “NO,” then tell him, “I’m taking up walking.” If he still says no, find another doctor who will have the confidence to believe in you. Or invite your doctor to participate in the 5K as a way of showing his support for you. FOR THIS ONE DAY ONLY, June 2, 2024, you have an opportunity to be part of history. If this 17th annual 5K / AIDS Cancer Run / Walk is a success, more events will follow in a different American city every few months. There are so few 5K AIDS / Cancer events in America. The Foundation’s mission for the American 5K events is to help Americans living with HIV and cancer in the local counties where the 5K is happening and to provide hope that their best years lie ahead.

I’m 71 years young and I ran 5 marathons in the past 12 months. I  ran my 2nd Boston Marathon in 2023 at age 70. To celebrate my first year in my 70s I will be ran 5 marathons in 2022: Ft. Lauderdale; Boston; Nova Scotia; Albany, NY; and the World AIDS Marathon on the Rockaway Boardwalk on World AIDS Day..

For children who are diagnosed with cancer, we want to reach out to these children and give them toys. Raising money for charity is not easy, but if we can appeal to corporate America and request items such as shampoo, laundry detergent, dish soap, deodorant, cologne or perfume, tissues, toothbrushes, toothpaste, sunscreen, and any free samples people and corporations will donate—these items, in their original wrapping, packaged nicely in a basket could be presented to people living with HIV and cancer during their hospital stay or upon leaving a hospital or attending an organized meeting of AIDS sufferers or cancer survivors. For further information about who will receive these baskets, click on the link, Who We Support. If you would like to donate any of the items listed above please visit the link, Product Donation.

The Richard M. Brodsky Foundation was able to donate thousands of dollars in food thanks to the generosity of Glen Wolther of allroundfoods. Glen’s delicious frozen pastries, breads, empanadas, muffins and cookies have been donated to Five Towns Community Center of Lawrence, Wyandanch Memorial High School and LIFQHC Family Health Center in Elmont.

Five Towns Community Center above  

Pictured above from left to right is Richard Brodsky; Linda Hughes Ashby, Community Development Specialist for Long Island Minority AIDS Coalition (LIMAC); Terri Banks, Executive Director of LIMAC; and Yvonne Mann, Risk Reduction Educator of LIMAC. Click on either poster below and save as a JPG if you would like to use either poster for a TV ad in a movie, supermarket, etc.

A SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR $200+ SPONSORS:

Dr. Richard Sartori / Garden City Pediatrics, 516-222-0893 – Stephen Silverstein DDSPC, 516-599-5544 – Maidenbaum Property Tax Reduction Group,LLC, 516-336-8622 – Quick Commercial Capital, 516-658-3484

www.allroundfoods.com

516-889-1345

www.clubflyers.com

inn@greatneck.com

Lawrence 516-239-2052  Valley Stream 516-596-0400

Inwood 516-239-9500

  http://www.lidokosherdeli.com 

www.sayvillerunning.com

5 Towns 5K Run / Walk

www.panerabread.com

Seaford 516-221-2112

www.handbpremier.com