Help Northwestern University Dance Marathon

Northwestern University Dance Marathon

Evanston, Illinois

Cause Description:
Currently in its 35th year, The Northwestern University Dance Marathon (NUDM) is one of the world's largest student-run philanthropies. As a strong campus tradition, Dance Marathon, or DM, brings together over 1,000 students, faculty, staff, and administrators in a thirty hour dance-a-thon. Each year DM selects a primary and secondary beneficiary to receive the money collected after months of fundraising and 30 hours of dancing. During DM, over 15,000 spectators visit the Norris University Center at Northwestern University, where DM takes place, to support the dancers and to take part in events such as a DM Spa and a 5K run. These events are planned to involve community members from Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois and nearby communities in DM. This community involvement fulfills DM's mission of uniting the Northwestern University campus and the nearby communities thorough education and philanthropic fundraising. DM 2010 is proud to announce StandUp for Kids as their primary beneficiary, along with Evanston Community Foundation as their secondary beneficiary. StandUp for Kids works in cities across the U.S. to help homeless children and youths improve their lives through providing basic necessities, deterring kids from running away, and providing resources for youths already living on the street. In the past 35 years, DM has made a huge difference to multiple medical organizations, but this year, for the second time ever, DM will dance to affect social change. Please visit www.nudm.org for more information.

Type: Business/Professional
Listed on iGive since: February 1999
iGive members supporting: 23

Website: www.nudm.org

Raised through iGive: $87.41 across 4 checks, August 1999 to September 2009.

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