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 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 posters 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, June 6, 2010, you have an opportunity to be part of history. If this third 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 DonationIn 2008 and 2009, the Foundation donated $22,000 in toiletry items to people living with HIV and cancer and $3,500 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 either poster for a TV ad in a movie, supermarket, etc.

If you are interested in registering for the FREE 5K Run / Walk for HIVers, Cancer Survivors & Friends on March 21, 2009, click on the FREE RUNNING EVENTS link above. The registration deadline is March 20 and you can also fax the application to 516-432-1254 or mail the application to Richard M. Brodsky Foundation, 1247 Mara Court, Atlantic Beach, NY 11509. The location of the Event in the Great Neck vicinity will be announced shortly