For team registration and general information:
www.hope-in-motion.org

• Ashforth has been founding and title sponsor since 1996.
• Hope In Motion raised $830,000 in its 13th year and since 1996 has raised over $6 million.
• 31 employees walked and raised $17,215 in 2008. Ashforth’s team has raised a total of $128,000 over the past 13 years.
• In addition to cash contributions, Ashforth provides in-kind marketing services support, donating 100+ hours of volunteer time involved with graphic design, event planning and committee participation in 2008. Total value of these services over the past 13 years is $260,000.

If you’re interested in sponsoring Hope in Motion please contact the Stamford Hospital Foundation, fpessin@stamhealth.org, (203) 276-5920. To view last year's video, please click here.

• Ashforth was the event’s first award recipient in 1996. The company has since been a sponsor of the event along with providing in-kind marketing services. Total value of graphic design and event planning services over the past 13 years is $70,000.
• The event raised $472,331 in 2008 and since 1996 has raised $3.5 million.

• 3,000+ hours of volunteer time by employees chairing or participating on a non-profit committee.
• 20 employees volunteered to read books to children in kindergarten and first grade classes at the Davenport School in Stamford, supporting the Work Place Volunteer Council’s Business-to-Books Read-a-Thon. Ashforth donated books to each classroom library.
• 19 employees walked in support of The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Light the Night Walk and raised $3,692. Total event raised over $288,000 in 2008.
• 3 employees helped raise funds for Literacy Volunteers by participating in their annual Scrabble Challenge. The event raised about $116,000.
• 16 employee volunteer hours were spent at the Oregon Food Bank warehouse, which is the hub for 870 hunger-relief agencies in Oregon and SW Washington.
• 103 employee volunteer hours were spent with the SMART program reading one hour a week to an assigned pre-K through 3rd grade to help with literacy.
• $700 in books from our book fairs was donated to the Boys & Girls Club, Domestic Violence & Smith House which are Stamford-based charities.

• 17 employees donated several new school outfits, sneakers, fall and winter jackets, backpacks filled with school supplies and gift cards to Brendan and Danielle, who attend Rogers Magnet School in Stamford.
• 24 employees volunteered to help fly the Kermit the Frog balloon for the Stamford Downtown Special Services Districts’s annual Thanksgiving Parade Spectacular.
• 14 Ashforth employees purchased all the items necessary for a family of four to enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner.
• 9 employees provided holiday gifts for several teenagers at the Boys & Girls Club in Stamford.
• Sporting event tickets and golf rounds given to various charities.
• Employees purchased 12 bunches of daffodils to support the American Cancer Society.
• 1,400 Teddy Bears were collected and delivered to various Portland hospitals.
• 72 sets of pajamas and books donated to Kids in Crisis.