Registration Now Open for Spencer & Sedgwick Virtual 5K Fun Run

 

Virtual 5K Fun Run Takes Place Tuesday, April 20th

 Spencer Sets $150,000 Fun Run Goal to Support Future Spencer Scholars

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March 9, 2021 (New York, NY): Registration for the Spencer Educational Foundation’s 7th annual Spencer & Sedgwick 5K Fun Run is now open. This year’s 5K will take place virtually on Tuesday, April 20, 2021 allowing individuals to participate from any location. The 5K Fun Run is one of Spencer’s leading fundraising events assisting Spencer’s various programming efforts and benefiting future risk management and insurance leaders.

“Many RIMS Annual Conference attendees have grown to love and look forward to Spencer’s annual 5K Fun Run.  We are so excited to take the race virtual, which opens the event to a broader participant base and doesn’t require an early wakeup call!  It is a great opportunity for some healthy exercise all while raising awareness and funds for Spencer’s mission – to fund the future of tomorrow’s risk management and insurance leaders,” said Megan Miller, Spencer Executive Director.

The Spencer & Sedgwick 5K Fun Run began in 2015 as an in-person fundraising 5K occurring during the RIMS Annual Conference. Each year, the 5K Fun Run has steadily grown in participation and funds raised. Due to the pandemic, the Spencer & Sedgwick 5K Fun Run pivoted to a virtual event in 2020 and will continue as a virtual event this year.

“Sedgwick is excited to continue our sponsorship for the 2021 Spencer and Sedgwick 5K Fun Run. The funds we raise each year through an event where we all come together is extremely rewarding. This is the event’s seventh year and by now we probably have some of the students who have benefited from this fundraising working in our industry,” said Jonathan Mast, Digital Strategy Director, Sedgwick. “I look forward to running in person next year, however this year we can all still make a difference running in our own neighborhoods.”

Spencer is encouraging individuals to gather their friends, family, colleagues (and pets!) to participate in this year’s 5K Fun Run. Participants can register individually or as a team. Individual registration is a $50 donation and can be accessed online. Sponsorship opportunities are also available and can be viewed here.

In addition to our longtime event sponsor Sedgwick, Spencer would like to thank the following companies for sponsoring the 2021 5K Fun Run:

  • Platinum sponsor: FM Global

  • Gold sponsors: Allied World Assurance Company, AXA XL, Concentra, Epic Insurance Brokers & Consultants, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Mitchell | Genex | Coventry, One Call Care Management, Optum, Ridge Global, Safety National, Servpro, Zurich, Zywave

  • Silver sponsors: AIG, Alliant Insurance Services, Inc., Conduent, Redhand Advisors, Risk Cooperative, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions

For registration and more information about the 5K Fun Run, please go to www.spencered.org/2021-spencer-virtual-5k-fun-run

 

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About Spencer Educational Foundation
The Spencer Educational Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization funding the education of tomorrow’s risk management and insurance leaders through scholarships, grants, internship opportunities, on and off campus experiential learning, and support of risk management/insurance curricula. Since its founding in 1979, Spencer has awarded over $8 million in scholarships and $5 million in grants to universities and professional institutions affecting more than 60,000 students through programming. For more information, please visit www.spencered.org.

 
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