St. Margaret Foundation Brian Demchak Hope Virtual Challenge

Challenge Website

Additional Challenge information can be found at https://www.stmargaretfoundation.org/challenge.

Place

Virtual Challenge - Choose your own route outside, or on a treadmill, dance floor, or in a pool to complete a virtual 5K at 3.1 miles or a distance you prefer for the patients, doctors, and staff served by St. Margaret Foundation

Description

The Brian Demchak Hope Challenge is a fundraiser that you participate in at your convenience with people or pets you enjoy while filling in the gaps with hope for patients and employees at St. Margaret. No crowds, no traffic, no parking, no restroom lines, no 6:00 am alarm. Choose a fitness challenge that works with your routine anytime from May 10 through May 16, 2026. Run, walk, or bike a 5k, challenge yourself to 10 push-ups a day, beat your friends in a pickleball match, you choose! Brian Demchak loved participating in a 5k, and he loved doing it with someone he loved - his mom. Get active and get together to honor Brian and support patients in crisis at UPMC St. Margaret.

The first 200 participants will receive a race shirt and a finisher's medal. Register by Friday, April 10 to ensure your preferred t-shirt size. Participants who fundraise online to help fill in the gaps with hope for patients and employees receive FREE REGISTRATION if they raise $50! Fundraise to win one of seven prizes - or be a top fundraiser to win them all!

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ALL PARTICIPANTS

The first 200 participants will receive the T-Shirt and finisher's medal!

FUNDRAISING PRIZES

All fundraisers will receive a St. Margaret Foundation coin purse.
Raise two donations of any amount, get a St. Margaret Foundation pin.
The first 15 fundraisers to reach $100 in donations will receive a St. Margaret clock.
Raise $50, get free registration for the Hope Challenge.
Raise $100, get a St. Margaret Foundation notebook and pen.
Raise $250, get a blue or green (your choice!) St. Margaret baseball cap.
Raise $500, get a green and white St. Margaret Foundation umbrella.
Raise $1,000, get a green St. Margaret Foundation camp chair.
Top Donors Prize: The fundraiser who raises from the highest number of individual donors will receive all of the prizes listed above!
Top Dollars Prize: The fundraiser who raises the highest amount of dollars will receive all of the prizes listed above!

Your Support Makes a Difference

Why is your help important? Because being sick is difficult enough without having to worry if you have a ride to chemotherapy or treatment, or if you can pay for expensive medicine, home oxygen, walkers, insulin, and other items you need that aren’t covered by insurance. You fill in those heartbreaking gaps with hope and healing for patients of St. Margaret with your support.

Your help makes these things possible:

· Stocking St. Margaret’s food pantry

· Stocking St. Margaret’s clothing closet

· Providing transportation to chemotherapy, radiation, and other treatments

· Supporting pharmacy vouchers for free medication

· Supplying crucial patient medical equipment such as walkers, hearing aids, prosthetic devices, and humidifiers