Registration/Fundraising Info

Online registration is now closed. You can still register on race day starting at 7 a.m. for $45 ($35 for youth 12 and under). Your registration fee includes the 5K Run/Walk across Home Plate, post-race festival, event T-shirt (100% cotton) and a free View Reserve ticket to the post-race Giants vs. Padres game (face value $26). Game tickets limited to first 3,000 registrants. All ages and abilities welcome. Walkers line up behind runners. Sorry, dogs are not permitted on field.

Confirmation of registration and participant numbers (i.e. race bibs) will be mailed in early August to everyone who registers by August 20. After August 20, you will only be able to register on-site (on race day - August 24, $45 for adults and $35 for youth 12 and under.) Please call (415) 447-2316 to check availability for Race Day Registrations.

Pledge to Make a Difference

Project Open Hand is one of the Bay Area’s best-known, most respected and beloved charities. For more than 23 years we’ve provided food, nourishment and emotional support to people facing life-threatening illnesses. In 1985, our founder, Ruth Brinker, a retired meal service manager, began preparing meals for seven people living with AIDS. The first grass roots response to the nutritional needs of people with AIDS in the nation, Project Open Hand today serves men, women and children with any acute, critical illness – HIV/AIDS, cancer, heart disease and many others, as well as a separate program for seniors ensuring companionship and nutrition for our community’s elderly.

We rely on literally hundreds of volunteers, and on support from tens of thousands of people like you who believe in our mission to provide meals with love. Because of the Giants and our other corporate partners who have underwritten this event, every dollar pledged through Plate to Plate will go directly to Project Open Hand’s meal, grocery and nutrition counseling programs in San Francisco and Alameda counties.

You are helping just by registering, running or walking. But please consider reaching out to friends, family, colleagues and neighbors to enlist their support for this important cause. Fundraising through Plate to Plate is easy, makes a real difference and also earns you credit toward unique incentive awards donated by our sponsors.

Incentive Awards

Incentive awards are cumulative - raise $1,000 or more to earn all rewards.

Amount Pledged	Impact	Our Thank You
$125	Meals for three weeks	Commemorative Plate to Plate/Giants Pin
$250	Groceries for a full month	Official Event Mug
$500	Meals and groceries for three months	Official Commemorative Event Baseball
$1,000	More than six months of home delivered meals with love	Event Sports Tote Bag plus a Giants player autograph on your Official Commemorative Event Baseball
Highest Individual Fundraiser	Immeasurable	Giants field visit and stadium tour for you + three guests (includes four game tickets; tour and tickets for future game date TBD by Giants) Acknowledgment from the pitcher’s mound during a pre-game ceremony on August 24.

Register online to create your own personalized fundraising page where people can make donations via credit card and you can track your progress. Or, call (415) 447-2316 to get a form to collect tax-deductible donations via check. (Please, no cash.) We encourage you to set a personal fundraising goal that’s meaningful for you … $50? $500? Every penny will make a difference.

To be eligible for incentive awards, all donations must be received by September 30, 2008. Highest individual fundraiser will be identified based on donations received by 9:00 a.m. race day. Registration fees and additional ticket charges do not count towards incentive awards. Fundraiser forms and checks may be mailed or dropped off in advance of the event to:
Project Open Hand, Attn: Plate to Plate, 730 Polk Street, San Francisco, CA 94109.
Or, drop them off between 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. at race-day registration near the start/finish line. Fundraiser awards will be distributed at the post-event festival on August 24. We reserve the right to substitute fundraiser awards. We reserve the right to substitute incentive awards of equal or greater value.

All incentive awards must be picked up at the post-race festival. We will not be mailing out incentive awards.

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