KANA Field, Kodiak Island, Alaska

Family friendly, pick-your-distance fun-run

The Milk Run

The Milk Run

Back in 2013, a couple of KINDNESS participants came up with this annual fundraising idea. They wanted to find a way to raise awareness of KINDNESS in the community, bring families together in a healthy activity and support the KINDNESS mission. It has turned into a popular annual family event. The KINDNESS Milk Run/Walk has “pick-your-own-distance” options and includes a “littles” foot race for toddlers and preschoolers to kick off the event. It is dog- and stroller-friendly, and of course there are milk and cookies to help the racers recover when it’s all over.

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2023 Milk Run

Thank you Kodiak for making the 2023 Milk Run our best ever! Thanks to you and to CU1 for matching donations, this year’s event raised almost $7,500! Every dollar counts and 100% of funds raised from community events are allocated to direct KINDNESS services to families.

Previous Milk Run Events

2023

2023 may have been our best Milk Run ever! With excellent weather and CU1 matching all proceeds, we had 109 participants (including 11 steadfast volunteers) and raised almost $7,500. The popular "littles" race has become a tradition for several families, and now some of those "littles" are joining the big people on the bike path and pulling in impressive race times! We love having KMS and KHS runners participate every year too; and this year we had a professional race-timing watch. Almost everyone walked away with something - over 50 door prizes from local businesses, or milk and cookies of course! Celebrations of the glorious fall Kodiak day continued at the Kodiak Community Foundation's nonprofit downtown block party all afternoon.
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2022

The Milk Run went off without a hitch in 2022. After a quick and exciting foot race for the “littles” on Woody Way Field, longer-legged folk headed out at various speeds for various distances around the block on the bike trail, with everyone ending up back at the field for milk and cookies and fabulous door prizes. Collectors loved T-shirts designed by local artist Tasnah Bercy, and many participants continued to celebrate by heading to the Kodiak Community Foundation's nonprofit block party downtown.
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2013

The inaugural KINDNESS Milk Run!
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