Move for Meals supporting Food & Friends
Move for Meals
Move for Meals supporting Food & Friends
About Move for Meals
Virtual Run / Walk / Bike
October 1, 2025 - November 1, 2025
Join us! Move for Meals is a month-long fundraising and fitness event supporting Food & Friends’ mission to deliver nutritious, medically tailored meals to individuals living with serious illnesses. Throughout October, you can walk, run, or bike from anywhere at anytime to promote health and raise awareness.
Every $30 raised provides one day of home-delivered, medically tailored meals.
With a fundraising goal of $200,000 in total, this event brings together colleagues, neighbors, volunteers, and wellness enthusiasts to provide home-delivered meals for individuals living with a serious or chronic illness—one meal, one mile at a time. It's a great corporate team event.
How it Works
Register
Register by paying $30, which equals one day of medically tailored meals for an individual living with a serious illness.
Fundraise
Each registrant commits to raising $200 (starting when you register through Nov. 1), which provides one week (6 days) of home-delivered, medically tailored meals.
Personalize your participant page and share it with your friends and network. Let them know why Food & Friends' mission is important to you and ask them to join you by making a donation to provide medically tailored meals for individuals dealing with a life-challenging illness!
You can use the fundraising tool kit for ideas!
Run, Walk and/or Bike
Here's the fun part! Run, Walk, and/or Bike wherever you are in the month of October and track your time via Strava (a fitness tracking app you can link to this fundraising platform) or manually enter your time to earn points.
Your participation will be part of our community to help neighbors in need. Push yourself to go the extra mile!
Recruit Your Friends
You can participate as an individual or a team!
Fundraising Impact
- $30 provides one full day of home-delivered, medically tailored meals
- $50 purchases a microwave for a client who doesn't have one to reheat meals
- $100 provides a personalized nutrition counseling session with one of our registered dietitians
- $200 provides one week (6 days) of home-delivered, medically tailored meals
- $500 provides one month of home-delivered meals for a client's child
- $1,000 provides two months of home-delivered, medically tailored meals for one client or one day for 33 clients
Join Gordy Squashington and Move for Meals this October!
Date
Starts at: September 30, 2025 11:01 PM
Ends at: November 1, 2025 10:59 PM
Location
, Anywhere!
Contact
Jenna Smith, Director of Special Events
202-269-6826
events@foodandfriends.org
Why Participate
Anyone can get sick and everyone can help! Support your neighbors living with serious illnesses by signing up to track your runs / walks / bike rides during the month of October while fundraising for Food & Friends. You will help provide over 1.8 million home-delivered meals to more than 5,500 neighbors living with cancer, HIV/AIDS, diabetes and other life challenging illnesses, including their dependents and caregivers. Set a fundraising goal and personal activity goal (optional) or team up with a friend or your organization to make an impact today.
Each $30 registration fee provides one full day of home-delivered, medically tailored meals and nutrition counseling to an individual living with cancer, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, heart failure or another life challenging illness.
By giving a little time and moving during the month of October, you will bring health and hope to a sick neighbor. Plus, we'll kick the competition into high gear with raffle prizes for top individuals and teams in activity points and fundraising!
How Your Support Makes a Difference
We are neighbors helping neighbors. We believe that everyone managing a serious illness should have the nourishment they need to improve their health and enhance their quality of life. Your participation will help raise funds to provide specialized meals that are designed to meet the medical and dietary needs of each of our clients. We believe that no one is immune from illness, regardless of demographics or economic status.
Demand for Food & Friends' medically tailored meals has increased significantly over the last few years. Our Move for Meals goal is to raise funds to provide 20,000 home-delivered, medically tailored meals and nutrition counseling serve adults, children and families living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other serious illnesses throughout the Washington, D.C. area.
Your registration of $30 equals one full day (breakfast, lunch and dinner) of home-delivered, medically tailored meals. Food & Friends is a critical community resource as the only community-based organization that provides free, home delivered, medically tailored meals throughout the Washington, DC region.
Examples of Activities
Walk for Meals
- Take a 20-minute evening walk each day
- Get your colleagues to walk with you for 20-minutes during lunch
- Take your dog for a walk (or your kids 😊)
- Walk on a treadmill while you read or listen to an audio book/podcast
Run for Meals
- Add some miles to your usual running routine
- Try a new trail or path you have been wanting to check out!
- Add a new section to your weekly run
- Run 5K twice a week
Bike for Meals
- Bike to work!
- Add 10 minutes to your weekly bike ride
- Try that new route by your house you have been wanting to check out
- Do a section of Mount Vernon Trail, Capital Crescent Trail, Anacostia River Walk Trail, Sligo Creek- or connect them to get the best of cycling in DC!
