Mission of Race4Awareness
Race4Awareness is a growing community of driven enthusiasts who want to utilize their passion to create a long-lasting, positive impact on peoples’ lives. Our objective is to raise awareness and financial support for problems that are in desperate need for a solution but receive little acknowledgement. Problems become even more difficult to solve when people do not even know they exist. We encourage you get involved and be remarkable - we cannot Race4Awareness without you!
Race4Awareness.org intends to provide a forum that will help guide awareness efforts to success with the ultimate goal of solving problems.
Follow us in our second year where we are Racing4Awareness for three important issues: Suicide and Self Injury, GI and BiPolar Schizophrenia, and the GI Disorders. We encourage you be remarkable and get involved because we cannot Race4Awareness without you!
Races4Awareness in 2012
Suicide and Self Injury
Suicide, like any fatal disease or fatal accident, could happen to anybody. We should not be afraid or ashamed to talk about it and seek help. Your life is worth fighting for. 
Life is worth running for. So this year Christina Clancey will be running her very first marathon in memory of my brother and to help other families from losing their loved ones as well. UPDATE, Christina finished the Rock n Roll Madrid Marathon in 4h15m! Congrats to her remarkable achievement! Read more on the racers page
Bipolar Schizophrenia
Awareness is crucial for helping people with Bipolar Schizophrenia because many victims ostracize themselves with their behavior (losing job opportunities, friends and often times putting their lives at risk) and their families struggle because they keep try solving this problem themselves; embarrased to seek help of any form. 
Thus more awareness could potentially allow society to understand the problems and challenges of Bipolar Schizophrenics and it is Chris McCoy's goal to play guitar to help make this happen!
GI and Motility Disorder Awareness
Gastro Intestinal (GI) and Motility Disorders affect millions of people of all ages. This is where parts of our bodies (namely our digestive tracts) don't function normally. Common examples include Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Gastroparesis, and Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) just to name a few. Symptoms can range from inconvenient to debilitating. These illnesses go largely undiagnosed because no abnormality can be seen in common tests, and because culturally we are embarrassed to talk about issues associated with the digestive tract. All of this means that many people suffer silently. We need your help in raising awareness and research funds for improved treatment and ultimately a cure for those afflicted.
You can help us correct these harmful stereotypes and encourage more people to engineer our future by supporting Race4Awareness in its mission to raise awareness about Celiac Disease, Engineering, and GI and Motility Disorder!