The Charitable Organization «Charitable Foundation “Chestnut Run” was established to draw attention to societal issues, create a national charitable tradition, and promote a healthy lifestyle.
Partnering with the Fund offers companies the opportunity to demonstrate corporate social responsibility and engage employees in a charitable initiative.
«Chestnut Run» has been held since 1993 and is the largest sports and charity project in Ukraine. Each year, more participants join the event, and new recipients reach out for support.
However, since 2002, the main recipient of the Run has been the Center for Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.
«Chestnut Run» is the first and only sports charity event in Ukraine. Since 1993, we have been organizing a celebration of kindness to show that helping is pleasant and fun.
This format of the event was chosen by the Charitable Foundation «Chestnut Run» intentionally. The unique feature of «Chestnut Run» is that every participant can feel the joy of helping those in need and recharge with the incredible energy of unity for a good cause.
After the event, we receive requests for support and assistance in organizing similar projects in other cities. These requests come from partners, beneficiaries, and participants of the event. Over recent years, the number of requests has significantly increased.
After analyzing the situation, we realized that there are plenty of running events, but almost all of them have an unbreakable commercial focus. Fundraising, as a way of developing a sports project, addresses the charitable component only within the framework of creating loyalty to the event.
Thus, we decided to spread the virus of charity among other cities in Ukraine and create new traditions. In 2019, in addition to the traditional runs within «Chestnut Run», we held new ones — «Blind Run» and «Run with a Dog». The beneficiary of the «Blind Run» was the V.P. Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine in Odesa. The representatives of the Institute sought help in opening the Center for Preventing Childhood Blindness. The beneficiary of the «Run with a Dog» was an animal shelter in Hostomel.
Every year, we plan to involve new cities and new beneficiaries in this initiative.
