Racing For Kids kicked off the holiday season with two special visits one to Children’s Hospital of Michigan and the other to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. Both visits were Christmas gift “drop offs” to help brighten a hospital stay for many metro Detroit and Kansas City children. In the Detroit visit, a couple […]
Racing For Kids Jumpstarts the holidays with special Christmas Visits
Racing For Kids First Virtual Fundraiser is a Huge Success!!
Our 14th Annual Racing For Kids to the Hill certainly wasn’t the event we had been hoping to stage in 2020. But fortunately we were able to “Shift Gears” and ended up having a wonderfully successful “virtual” event that benefited both our hospital visit program as well as the community restaurants who have been with […]
Racing For Kids to the Hill – Shifting Gears 2020 – Virtual Event EXTENDED!
We are so disappointed COVID-19 canceled our annual “last blast of summer” fundraiser this year. But we need to keep helping sick kids in hospitals in our community and across the country. so this year our annual fundraiser is going virtual with an online Luxury Non-Auction and our new Donate & Dine Package. PURCHASE TICKETS and […]
Celebrate the 104th Running of the Indy 500!
Hello Racing For Kids Supporters, We are starting a campaign this week to celebrate the 104th running of the Indianapolis 500 on August 23rd at 1:00 PM ET on NBC and spreading the word about Racing For Kids and the hospitals the NTT Data IndyCar Drivers visit. Please meet “Flat Rosie & Ryder”. Help us color […]
Elkhart Lake “Virtual” Welcome Party Benefiting Racing For Kids
Join us this year on INSTAGRAM LIVE @sibkensresort with host Guy Hobbs interviewing racing celebrity guests and supporting Racing For Kids! About this Event On Saturday, July 11, 2020, from 7 – 9 PM CT, the Elkhart Lake ‘Virtual’ Welcome Party will be coming to you Live from Siebkens Resort. As the NTT Data IndyCar […]
Racing For Kids to the Hill 2020 is Cancelled Due to Covid 19
“Racing For Kids to the Hill” – one of the most widely anticipated and well attended events on the Grosse Pointe social calendar – has been cancelled for 2020 because of the continuing risk associated with the Covid 19 pandemic our country and state have been combating. The annual end-of-summer festival has been a fixture […]
Think about Racing For Kids on “Giving Tuesday”
Today is GIVING TUESDAY. Please consider making a Racing For Kids donation by clicking the DONATE tab at the top of the page to help underwrite the costs of our new COVID-19 Response Program. Our Racing For Kids Team is responding to COVID-19 pediatric needs by: Sending funds (up to $5,000) to support children’s hospitals COVID-19 […]
Update From Racing For Kids
Dear Sponsors, Supporters and Friends: Our Racing For Kids team was deeply disappointed when our 2020 schedule of hospital visits was put on hold last month. But we fully understand why our program was delayed as the country is fighting against the Covid-19 virus. We are joining in that fight as we support the hospital […]
Racing For Kids® Receives the 2020 Excellence in Non-Profit Activity Award from the Grosse Pointe Chamber of Commerce
Award is presented during the annual Pointer of Distinction Dinner GROSSE POINTE, MICHIGAN — Racing For Kids has received the prestigious 2020 Pointer of Distinction Award for Excellence in Non-Profit Activity given annually by the Grosse Pointe Chamber of Commerce. Since 2007 the chamber has publicly recognized outstanding individuals and organizations that have demonstrated excellence […]