By Samantha Filcik, Development and Operations Manager

This year, Team TFFT achieved significant growth, broadening our reach and surpassing our goals. With new marathons, more runners, and an incredible show of support, we turned miles into meaningful impact. This year we sent runners all around the world with teams participating in five different marathon weekends on four different continents. We had 15 runners from the US participate in the Kilimanjaro Marathon weekend events, along with several TFFT staff members, scholars, and alumni, and they raised an impressive $41,775 to help kick off our Team TFFT fundraising for the year. In August we had two runners represent TFFT at the TCS Sydney Marathon for the first time, raising $9,745. Our six BWM Berlin Marathon runners kept the momentum going by raising $31,140 before heading over to Germany in September. October saw our largest team of the year with 20 runners participating in the Bank of America Chicago Marathon and raising $42,500, a new event record for our team. The year wrapped up with a team of 11 running in the TSC New York City Marathon at the beginning of November. They raised $45,330 as a team and helped us surpass our annual goal for Team TFFT, bringing us to $170,490 for the year.

We’re so proud of all of our runners in 2025 and are looking forward to another successful race season next year. We are excited to announce an addition of two teams in 2026 with the Tokyo Marathon in March and Cape Town Marathon in May. Please reach out to Samantha Filcik at samantha@thefoundationfortomorrow.org if you would like to be added to any of our 2026 waitlists.