This year's beneficiaries
Proud to Run donates 100% of proceeds from each year’s race to Chicago-area non-profit organizations who work to make the LGBTQ+ healthier, safer, and stronger.
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Proud to Run has raised $700,000 for its beneficiaries in the past 40 years.
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This year we have selected two organizations as our beneficiaries from donations like yours. Find out a little bit more about the Youth Empowerment Performance Project (YEPP) below, our second beneficiary will be named soon!
Youth empowerment Performance project
YEPP strives to create a brave environment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI+) youth experiencing homelessness to explore their history, investigate new ways to address their struggles and to celebrate their strengths through personal, leadership and community development programming that incorporate different art-expression forms.
