Welcome!

If you are interested in registering for the FREE 5K Event on October 25, 2009, click on the FREE RUNNING EVENTS link above. The registration deadline is October 24 and you can also fax the application to 516-432-8292 or mail the application to Richard M. Brodsky Foundation, 1247 Mara Court, Atlantic Beach, NY 11509

 Register Now! As soon as we have a date for the 2010 5K AIDS / Cancer Run / Walk we will announce it. We have requested June 6, 2010 and we should be able to confirm that date by the end of November.

REGISTER FOR FREE on race day by raising $50. You will still need to complete a race application.

To print a free 5K AIDS Cancer Run Walk free 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, etc, click on the poster at the bottom of this page 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 second 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 and 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, May 31st, 2009 you have an opportunity to be part of history. If this second 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. Long Island Minority AIDS Coalition will be providing free AIDS testing for all. 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 early detection of AIDS and cancer which will ease the suffering and prolong life if the diseases are discovered in their early stages. And 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

In 2008, the Foundation donated $10,000 in toiletry items to people living with HIV and cancer and $1,500 in toys to children living with pediatric cancer.

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 this poster for an ad on TV.

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