Charity Programs
Team In Training 
Team In Training is the signature fund raiser for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. TNT is also the world's largest endurance sports training program. Raise money to help find a cure for blood cancer and train to walk or run a half marathon or full marathon, complete a triathlon or century bike ride.
Team In Training - Iowa provides, professional coaching, a comprehensive training program, an opportunity to train with a team, all while raising money to make a difference in the lives of blood cancer patients and their families.
Run the IMT Des Moines Marathon as a member of Team in Training!
American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society (ACS) is the nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives and diminishing suffering from cancer through research, education, advocacy and service.
Over the years, more than 3,000 athletes have participated in endurance events as an American Cancer Society Charity Runner. You are invited to participate in this great event while raising funds and honoring and remembering those who have been touched by cancer. To date, the Charity Runner program has raised over $3 million dollars! Come be a part of Iowa's first ever Charity Runner event!
Run the IMT Des Moines Marathon as an American Cancer Society Charity Runner!
Autism Society of Iowa
The Autism Society of Iowa is an affiliate of the Autism Society of America. The Iowa chapter was founded in 1978 and currently has over 300 members. The Autism Society of Iowa is a statewide non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of children and adults wit
h Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Over one half million people in the U.S. today have autism or some form of pervasive developmental disorder. Its prevalence rate makes it one of the most common developmental disabilities.
Organization for Autism Research
The Organization for Autism Research (OAR) was created in December 2001–the product of the shared vision and unique life experiences of OAR’s seven founders. Led by these parents and grandparents of children and adults on the autism spectrum, OAR set out to use applied science to answer questions that parents, families, individuals with autism, teachers and caregivers confront daily. No other autism organization has this singular focus.
Iowa Chapter of American Parkinson's Disease Association (APDA)
The Iowa Chapter of the American Parkinson's Disease Association (APDA) was formed to bring more awareness to Parkinson's Disease and help fund research in the fight against this disease. The Iowa Chapter also supports the Iowa Information and Referral Center which supports victims of the disease and their caregivers.
As many as one million Americans suffer from Parkinson's disease, which is more than the combined number of people diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy and Lou Gehrig's disease. As is the case with many neurological disorders, the cause of Parkinson’s Disease is not known. There is no known cure for Parkinson's Disease.
Making Strides with the Iowa Parkinson's Disease Association
Soles 4 Souls
Soles4Souls™, Inc. began as a small team effort to make a difference in people’s lives with the gift of shoes. When Hurricane Katrina roared ashore the gulf coast of the United States in late August 2005, a group of caring individuals and motivated charities created a website called KatrinaShoes.org in order to collect footwear donations from companies and individuals.
The response to its call for action was overwhelming. As the fledgling charity called upon other organizations to help distribute the amount of donated footwear that arrived, it discovered that the need for basic footwear was immense, even when natural disasters weren’t looming on the horizon. KatrinaShoes.org reincorporated as Soles4Souls Inc., which has become an acclaimed international organization dedicated to providing free footwear to those in desperate need.
By partnering with caring individuals, companies and charities around the country, Soles4Souls has the ability to hold popular footwear drives to reach needy people in the United States and around the world.
Please consider bringing your gently worn training shoes and other shoes to the Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Sports & Fitness Expo and look for the Soles 4 Souls collection bins!
Medals4Mettle
Medals4Mettle (M4M) is a non-profit organization founded in 2005. It facilitates the gifting of marathon, half marathon and triathlon finishers’ medals from runners to children and adults dealing with chronic or debilitating illnesses and have demonstrated similar mettle, or courage in bravely facing these challenges.
Marathon runners around the world, and other distance runners who have won medals, give their medals to Medals4Mettle. Then our nationwide network of physicians and volunteers awards these medals (with a Medals4Mettle ribbon attached) to those who might not be able to run a race, but are in a race of their own to continue to live their life. Learn how you can donate your medals today!
Altoona Kiwanis
It’s hard to imagine an unhappy playground…After all, that’s where children go to have the time of their lives. To laugh. Zip down the big slide. Scramble up the chain climbers. Whiz by on the merry-go-round. Swing with little feet pointed to the sky, higher and higher than ever before.
But Acea Hackert isn’t having fun like the other kids…He was born with physical challenges that have left him unable to walk on his own. His walker doesn’t go through wood chips or gravel … it just sinks like he’s in quicksand. He can’t climb aboard any of the equipment. There simply isn’t a playground built for him, not within 30 miles. So he watches. And wishes he could play … just like the other kids. If you’re anything like me, a situation like this just rips at your heart. With your help, we can make a playground that works for everyone.
The Altoona Kiwanis have a dream … to build the very first accessible playground in eastern Polk County, at Clay Elementary School, for preschool children aged 2 to 6. In order to make this dream come true, they need to raise $150,000 …but they will fall short without generous contributions from the good businesses and individuals in our community -- like you. Won’t you help us? When you contribute to this project, you’re not just building a playground. You’re building a community.
Restoration Ingersoll
The Restoration Ingersoll Committee is working to revitalize the sidewalks and landscaping along Ingersoll Avenue in Des Moines and is raising money - brick by brick.
Restoration Ingersoll is conducting a "buy a brick" campaign to raise money for the street revitalization effort. For $100, supporters can have a name or short message engraved on a brick that will be incorporated into the sidewalk plan.
The IMT Des Moines Marathon has committed $6,000 towards Restoration Ingersoll.
