Official
2025 Charity Partners
When you race for a cause through Twin Cities In Motion, your steps make an impact beyond the finish line.
Choose from our list of Charity Partners and raise awareness for their cause while you train and tackle the Medtronic TC 10 Mile or the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon!
Click on a name below to learn more about the Charity and connect with their team.
Brave Like Gabe
Medtronic TC 10 Mile Only
The Brave Like Gabe Foundation is an organization in memorial of Gabrielle “Gabe” Grunewald and her battle with an incurable salivary gland cancer. Their mission is to support rare cancer research and empower all cancer survivors through physical activity. They value hope, joy, kindness, bravery, equity, community, and integrity.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Deb Rizzo, [email protected]
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Cancer Legal Care
Medtronic TC 10 Mile only
Cancer Legal Care's mission is to engage the law to resolve the complex challenges facing people and communities affected by cancer. We do this by providing free legal care and education to Minnesotans affected by cancer, for the legal issues they face that directly impact their health and quality of life.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Maddie Babel, [email protected]
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World Vision
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization and the largest non-governmental provider of clean water in the world, working to help communities lift themselves out of poverty. For good. They pursue their mission with a commitment to transformational development, emergency relief, promotion of justice, and more.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Matt Anderson, [email protected]
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YMCA of the North (Camping & Adventure Team)
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
YMCA of the North believes everyone deserves a chance to succeed – no matter their background or income. Their Camping & Adventure Team ensures a camp for everybody – kids, teens, adults, families, and other groups.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Angela Wunderlich, [email protected]
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2025 Participating Charities
American Cancer Society
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
American Cancer Society strives to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Jessica Bloodgood, [email protected]
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Bolder Options
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
Bolder Options is a one-on-one, wellness-based mentoring program for youth seeking extra support to realize their full potential.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Ryan Foss, [email protected]
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Compassion International
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
Compassion International works to end child poverty by connecting vulnerable children with local churches who care for them holistically- mind, body, and soul.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Meghan Foley, [email protected]
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debra of America
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
debra of America’s mission is to improve the quality of life for people living with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB).
Want to join their team?
Contact: Jason Kelley, [email protected]
Forging Youth
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
Forging Youth Resilience empowers young people to build physical and mental strength for life by providing access to a network of community-based fitness programs, nutrition education, and mentorship.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Christina Kampf, [email protected]
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Jack's Basket
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
Jack’s Basket is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with a mission to celebrate babies with Down syndrome. We strive to ensure that every new and expectant parent is provided resources and avenues of support within the community. We aim to equip medical providers with tools to discuss the diagnosis in an unbiased way in hopes that having a baby with Down syndrome is celebrated like any other.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Victoria Bade, [email protected]
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Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation
Medtronic Twin Cities Medtronic ONLY
As the nation's leading nonprofit in addiction and mental health treatment, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation provides comprehensive care, education, and advocacy through 16 treatment centers, including six in Minnesota
Want to join their team?
Contact: RunBoss Management, [email protected]
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Hope For The Mourning
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
God's promises for Grieving Parents. Dedicated to helping families find hope in Jesus after the death of an infant or child.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Craig Wessman, [email protected]
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National Brain Tumor Society
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
National Brain Tumor Society unrelentingly invests in, mobilizes, and unites the brain tumor community to discover a cure, deliver effective treatments, and advocate for patients and caregivers.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Nikki Margeson, [email protected]
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NMPD
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
NMDP (formerly known as Be the Match) aims to save lives through cellular therapy.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Chloe Walbruch, [email protected]
Open Your Hearts to the Hungry and Homeless (OYH)
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
By focusing on tangible needs and facility improvements, Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless ensures safe and dignified environments for families, youth, and adults experiencing food and housing insecurity.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Jessica Mathias, [email protected]
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Ruff Start Rescue
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
Ruff Start Rescue is dedicated to saving the lives of animals in need. They improve animal welfare in communities through adoption, education, and providing resources for people and pets.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Brittany Murnan, [email protected]
Second Harvest Heartland
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
More than a food bank, Second Harvest Heartland is one of the largest, most efficient and most innovative hunger-relief organizations in the nation.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Maddie Archbold, [email protected]
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Special Olympics Minnesota
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
Special Olympics Minnesota has a mission to create a new world of inclusion and acceptance for people with intellectual disabilities by providing year-round sports training and athletic competitions, inclusive healthcare programs, leadership and advocacy training, and inclusive school programs.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Heather Fleetwood, [email protected]
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The SUDC Foundation
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
The SUDC Foundation is the only organization worldwide whose purpose is to raise awareness, fund research, and serve those affected by sudden unexplained death in childhood (SUDC). The SUDC Foundation provides all services at no cost to the people it serves.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Teri Kandel, [email protected]
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This Old Horse
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
This Old Horse is a multi-accredited, volunteer-based, nonprofit equine welfare organization providing rescue, retirement, rehabilitation and rehoming to horses in need.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Julia Amerongen, [email protected]
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Tutapona
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
Tutapona provides emotional healing for people displaced by war.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Carl Gaede, [email protected]
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Urban Roots
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
Urban Roots provides paid internships to youth on the East Side of Saint Paul in urban agriculture, cooking, and natural resources conservation.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Sara Johnson, [email protected]
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USO
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
USO (United Service Organizations) works to strengthen the well-being of the people serving in America's military and their families.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Josh Sova, [email protected]
Children's Cancer Research Fund
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
A national leader in pediatric cancer research and quality of life services based in the Twin Cities, Children's Cancer Research Fund fuels scientific discoveries for safer, more effective treatments and cures for kids living with cancer.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Jenni Isenhower, [email protected]
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Mile in My Shoes
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
Mile in My Shoes is a proud Official Charity Partner for the 2025 Medtronic TC 10 Mile, Half Marathon For More, and TC Marathon. We use the power of running to bring together people from diverse backgrounds to build connections, boost wellness, spark social change, and center people traditionally excluded from running spaces.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Rebecca Lange, [email protected]
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2025 Associate Charities
Project Purple
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
Project Purple is a 501c3 that is focused on improving the lives of those battling pancreatic cancer through hope, support, and compassion. Our mission is to have a world
Want to join their team?
Contact: Vin Kampf, [email protected]
Venture
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
Venture brings relief to refugees fleeing from violence, combats human trafficking, oppression & extreme poverty, and brings the hope of the gospel to unsafe, unreached, and under resourced areas.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Amanda Stank, [email protected]
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Wildflyer
Medtronic TC 10 Mile & Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
Wildflyer Coffee is a nonprofit coffee company providing employment opportunities, skills training, and personal development to youth experiencing homelessness and housing instability.
Want to join their team?
Contact: Chelsea Keene, [email protected]
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