2026 Charity Partner
We're teaming up again with charity partner A Simple Gesture for 2026's Greensboro Half Marathon and the Thanksgiving season! The virtual donation model lets you see exactly how your monetary contributions translate into various sizes of donated food bags. Together, we can make a meaningful impact in our community.
A Simple Gesture uses the power of the community to keep local food pantries stocked. Over 4,000 households across Guilford County fill a bag with nonperishable food and place it on their porch on their pickup day. Our volunteers pick up that food and take it directly to our 21 partner pantries. A Simple Gesture also recovers perishable food. On a daily basis, our volunteers also pick up excess food from grocery stores, restaurants, and caterers, and take it to 50+ nonprofits serving meals to the community. In 2025, A Simple Gesture collected over 2 million pounds of food for hungry children and families in Guilford County.
