Join Snowflake Streak on 1-25-25
By Catherine Rice, Vice President of Marketing/Outreach at Health Partnership Clinic
Winter Walk to Raise Critical Dollars, Awareness of our Uninsured Neighbors
On Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025, teams and individuals will don their winter hats and gloves to walk in Health Partnership Clinic’s first annual Snowflake Streak in Olathe, Kan. The peer-to-peer fundraising walk will be held at the Olathe Community Center/Stagecoach Park. Walkers will enjoy pre and post walk activities including a short program, brisk walk around the 0.97-mile walking trail loop and breakfast. Joe Lauria, evening news meteorologist for FOX4, will serve as the event’s emcee.
The Snowflake Streak is a fun way to engage the community, strengthen donor relationships, build awareness around our mission and boost revenue. Our goal is to bring together caring individuals, families and area businesses who want to help neighbors who are struggling physically, mentally and financially. The money raised will help keep low income and uninsured children and adults healthy and well in our community.
The event goal is to raise $50,000. We invite area companies, vendors, schools, civic and church groups and the overall community to participate by being a sponsor, forming a team or both. Sponsors currently include Olathe Health, now part of the University of Kansas Health System, Olathe Kansas and Blue Gurus. To learn more, scan the QR Code below!
HOW IT WORKS?
You can walk as an individual, become a team captain and recruit others to be on your team, or you can join a team. There are individual incentives and team prizes, activities, breakfast after the walk, including a hot chocolate and coffee bar.
Team registration—which can be one person or more—is open until Thursday, Jan. 16. Although there is no fee to walk, we encourage individuals to raise $100 which will underwrite the cost of providing a rapid RSV, strep or flu test for two uninsured children. Those raising $100 will receive a Snowflake Streak t-shirt.
There are also other incentives including a hot/cold tumbler set, blanket shawl, fleece jacket, Garmin Activity Tracker, etc. The more you raise, the more incentives you earn! There will be prizes for Best Dressed Team and Individual Adult and Child, Top Fundraising and Most Team Members.
The Snowflake Streak is a fun way the community and area businesses can bring together their families, employees and clients and give back and learn more about the clinic’s mission of providing quality, affordable and accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care. We are often a ‘best kept secret’ and we hope more people will engage in our mission and share our impact.
The Snowflake Streak Committee includes Cara Coleman, The Recovery Village Kansas City; Stephanie Heisler, Walmart; Abigail Lano, MPH, Marketing Communications Consultant; Emily Latta, Truity Credit Union; Bill Schafer, Olathe Noon Optimist Club; James Terrones, HPC Board; and Jason Terry, Blue Gurus. Representing HPC includes Thao Le, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, Behavioral Health; David Merschbrock, Administration, and Nikki Balden, Administration. The fundraising event is led by our Marketing and Development team members Catherine Rice, Tobi Buchanan and Debbie Sparks.
If you are Interested in forming a team, walking or sponsoring the Snowflake Streak, contact Catherine Rice, Vice President of Marketing and Outreach, at crice@hpcks.org or 913-730-3680.
To learn more visit: https://hpcks.org/snowflake/.