100 Mile Club, Inc.

The 100 Mile Club’s school-based program is an important intervention strategy increasing physical activity in schools nationwide, reinforcing the importance of fitness, while working to reduce the risk of becoming overweight/obese with age. \n\nThe onset of our program fosters healthy lifestyle habits as a significant majority of participating students immediately begin to work towards their individual goal of running or walking 100 miles during the school year. By years end, participating schools will report 60-70% of students look forward to regular increased physical activity. In addition to health benefits, involvement in the program leads to an array of benefits in the classroom and in student social and emotion well-being.\n\nThere are a wide range of influences on youth physical activity, existing across school, home and community settings. However, the key advantage of focusing efforts to promote physical activity through school-based programs is the significant amount of time that children must spend in school, identifying this important setting for the promotion of physical activity among children. \n\nWe believe to decrease childhood obesity in children we must increase activity. Our major goal is to get children moving by walking or running on a regular basis, and we’re making it safe and fun for kids, too! Putting a creative spin on the simple act of walking or running our incentives add excitement while teaching children how to become responsible and accountable for their own success. \n\nIt is our long-term goal to introduce the 100 Mile Club to as many schools possible with the objective to get kids moving, healthy, and understanding the importance of daily physical activity. We believe we can change the attitudes of the student and the culture of a school, ultimately their families and community too with the ultimate goal of reducing and reversing childhood obesity in our schools.\n\nTogether we can reach more kids and more schools and continue to be part of the solution. It is our goal to successfully win the battle on childhood obesity and inactivity, creating happy, healthy connected kids, one child, one school, one community at a time.\n\nOur Mission: Engaging and empowering kids and families to achieve a healthy lifestyle through physical activity nationwide; preventing childhood inactivity and obesity, one child, one school, and one community at a time.

Carefully developed over a quarter century, our expertise and wisdoms were recognized as a nationally award-winning school-based program by the Active Schools Acceleration Project competition and identified as one of the most creative, impactful, and scalable school based programs promoting children's physical activity. \n\nWe bring our years of experience to schools and work with them from start to end, finding the best way for each school to implement the program. We present students with a straightforward challenge: run, jog, or walk 100 miles over the course of the school year. Just 3 miles a week can bring students to their goal. Students log miles during designated walking/running times and our Signature Incentives Package reinforces and motivates along the way. \n\nThis award winning model connects students, staff, families, and entire communities while each child develops a sustainable set of skills, confidence, and motivation to be healthy and active for life. The program is highly adaptable to the resources and needs of schools, and may be implemented in many different contexts throughout the school day. Students may accumulate mileage during PE, during school hours, at lunch and recess, and in before or after school hours. Each participating student will receive our Signature Incentive Package, providing all milestone incentives and training for their coaches/teachers necessary to ensure each participating school and student is successful. \n\nThese incentives celebrate students as they reach each 25 mile marker on their journey to 100. Incentives include: Accept the Challenge Card, Tracking T-Shirt received at 25 miles, Gold Pencil at 50 miles, Wristband at 75 miles, End of Year Certificate for all students no matter the miles achieved, and for those that reach 100 miles, a Custom Gold Medal. Also included is year round support for teachers/coaches. Schools will receive our comprehensive Program Guide to assist them for the entire school year, teacher training as needed and tracking materials. Our Program Specialists will work with all funded schools to design a format that suits their environment, provide on-going support and training's as needed. Also provided as requested is school kick-off assemblies and End of Year Medal Ceremony planning. \nAdditional activities will be multidimensional, involving several phases to achieve our goals in one school year. \n\nConnecting schools, families of students and the surrounding community is crucial to the success of the program and ultimately how we can make life long changes and physical activity a way of life. Collaboration with diverse organizations and partners is also vital to our ability to innovate, build relationships, create and provide the tools and resources to help schools become healthier places for their students.

We know teachers and schools. It's where we started and it is where we live. Schools are the heart of a commUNITY and where our children spend the majority of their waking hours. Teachers are everything. THEY are the change makers. We know and understand this deeply and work tirelessly to help our schools do what they do best: Inspire and encourage their students to be the very best they can be.\nWe are Nationwide. Our program and unique incentives unite thousands of students and schools in all 50 states, each actively combating and reversing childhood inactivity and obesity while sharing our mission, vision, and spirit.\n\nWe help build strong, positive social-emotional connections. The relationship between teachers and students can have a lasting impact on the development of a child and when teachers participate in 100 Mile Club WITH their students, a unique bond is created.\n100 Mile Club can be implemented completely FREE by any school, anywhere, any time. Our NO COST Certificate Path Option supports our deep and passionate NO EXCUSES attitude.\n\nOur Award-Winning LOW-COST Program Option includes our legendary, original Signature Incentive Package. Just $10, the cost of our Incentive Package has not changed in 26 years and we intend to keep it that way.\n\n• Our famous trademark 100 Mile Club shirt! Our 100 Mile Club t-shirt, earned at 25 miles, changes color annually, allowing runners to track their miles visibly and together, unifying participants and schools worldwide.\n• That gorgeous 100 Mile Club Gold Medal is everything! Always earned, never given, our custom-designed 100 Mile Club Gold Medals are the pinnacle of our Incentive package, of the highest quality, and are specifically designed to complement the 100 Mile Club shirt color each year.\n\n100 Mile Club works. Our award-winning, school-centered, standards and research-based program has been proven effective in:\n• increasing daily physical activity\n• improving attendance, decreasing daily tardiness\n• improving classroom behaviors\n• strengthening family and commUNITY engagement and teacher-student connection\n• building self-esteem\n• developing and sustaining healthy habits\n• creating a culture of fitness and wellness\n• improving peer relationships, team spirit, camaraderie\n• teaching short and long-term planning and goal-setting\n\n100 Mile Club creates champions and facilitates long-term positive change in a noncompetitive, supportive and fully-inclusive environment. Our program is highly adaptable and modifiable to serve all age, fitness, and ability levels.

The ultimate goal of the 100 Mile Club remains consistent throughout the years, to build healthy communities beginning at the school level, instilling the joy and importance of being active to students and having it carry over to their families and their community at large. Physical Fitness habits established in childhood have a better chance of carrying into adulthood, so teaching children the importance of being active at a young age will help them stay healthy throughout their life. The connection between being active and a healthy weight and how it reduces chronic disease risk, and improves overall health is too important to ignore.\n\nWe are changing lives ONE Child, ONE School, and ONE Community at a time.\n\nOur Vision\nHealthy, Happy, Connected Kids®\n\nSome of our accomplishments/awards include:\n\n• California Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports: Spotlight Award, Gold Medalist, Non-Profit Organization of the Year.\n\n• Spirit of the Entrepreneur Award/Inland Spirit Awards: Social Entrepreneur of the Year.\n\n• Jefferson Award for Public Service.\n\n• Greater Corona Valley Chamber of Commerce: Non-Profit Organization of the Year.\n\n• Corona-Norco Management Association/Association of California School Administrators: Partner in Educational Excellence Award.\n\n• Selected as one of two organizations named national winner of The Active Schools Acceleration Project competition which identified and rewarded the most creative, impactful, and scalable school-based programs and technologies to promote children's physical activity. \nActive Schools Acceleration Project (ASAP) is an initiative of ChildObesity180, an organization committed to fostering cross-sector collaboration to reverse the trend of childhood obesity within one generation's time. The Innovation Competition is funded by a consortium of the nation's leading health plans.\n\n• Featured in Runner’s World Magazine