When the pandemic hit last year, I found myself up all night listening to the news.

Like many others, during our darkest hours, this InsomniYAK didn’t get up until the late afternoon.

This first live-action fundraiser of the year is a kayak relay contest between the Board Members of my charity Fit4theCause. Many of you have helped in the past when I swam until it hurt and helped my team raise money for this impactful nonprofit organization.

I think of how I have felt over the past 18 months,  and then try to imagine what our beneficiaries have endured without the support system many of us enjoyed. Fit 4 The Cause was there for our most vulnerable communities during the lockdown, delivering a variety of group exercise classes daily via zoom and outdoors with our local parks department.

Cautiously returning indoors to assisted living facilities, hospitals, schools, and gyms we provide diverse fitness classes for seniors; kids, and young adults with special needs.

While we were still providing classes via Zoom daily during the pandemic, our FunRaising, as with many charities, has taken a major hit. Now that we are (hopefully) on the way back to normalcy, we are not only ramping up our in-person programs but also expanding our beneficiaries to include residents of Drug and Alcohol Rehabs. Studies have shown how exercise can help the brain replace the longing for drugs by providing the "high" that athletes talk about from aerobics and yoga! Those suffering from drug and alcohol abuse were greatly affected when their in-person meetings were shut down and many found themselves isolating. Our programs help reestablish that good feeling with one's body and provide another tool for those in Recovery.

Please help me raise the funds necessary to continue providing the amazing programs our licensed instructors provide! This will be a time/distance FunRaiser by Board members in Kayaks, and this InsomniYAK needs your support.

The race is taking place on August 15, 2021, so we have less than a month to reach my goal of $1500. So, to help entice you, for every $25 you donate I will give you one entry for a drawing to be held on the 15th. If you donate $100 you get 5 entries! The winner will get 4 tickets to the August 17th Dodger game! Tickets are in the loge, Front Row, and include Preferred Season Parking!

So why are you still reading this? Click on the button and start Donating!!

Thanks and donate early and donate often!