About The Children's Miracle Network and the Run For
The Kids Event
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The CMN Run for the Kids Event
was conceived by enthusiastic
 Wal-Mart
Associates in 2001 volunteering on the CMN
Committee at the Wal-Mart Distribution
Center in Raymond, NH. The management team and the CMN Committee Associates there, in
coordination with the local Wal-Mart stores
whole-heartedly supported this idea and
vision and the event took off the 1st weekend of August, 2002. |
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A combination
of nearly 50 runners ran the 1st Annual 5k Road Race
which Starts and Finishes at the Pawtuckaway State Park in Nottingham, NH.
A
Kid's Fun Run was added to event in 2009. The
8th Annual CMN Run for the Kids
5K Road Race Event has grown with great
support making this truly a collective
community event. |
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Children's Miracle Network (CMN) is an
International, non-profit Organization dedicated to
helping children and their families by raising funds
and awareness for over 170 non-profit children's
hospitals through North America.
 Children’s Miracle Network hospitals, like our very own
Children's Hospital Boston, are premier facilities in their respective communities and of the finest
state-of-the-art care, cutting edge research and
preventative health education to more than
17-million children with all types of afflictions,
including birth defects, pediatric AIDS, muscular
dystrophy, sickle cell anemia, asthma and
accidental injuries, as well as the bumps and
bruises of life.
CMN organizes and executes thousands of
special events and fundraisers each year through its
dedicated corporate sponsors and media partners |
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At
Children's Hospital Boston—one of the world’s leading pediatric hospitals—
life-changing care and world-changing research come together to fuel breakthroughs that are improving the lives of children and adults.
Children’s Hospital Boston: based in Boston, serving the world:
CARE
- ranked by U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Children’s Hospital” issue as first in heart and heart surgery, neurosurgery, neurology and orthopedics
- world-leading programs in cardiology, neurology, orthopedic surgery and advanced fetal care
- recognized for nursing excellence; among the 5% of hospitals nationwide that have achieved Magnet status, an exclusive designation recognizing nursing
excellence.
- home to the country’s most competitive training program; 1,500 apply for 39 resident positions annually—a 3% acceptance rate.
RESEARCH
- receives the National Institutes of Health’s seal of approval as its top pediatric funding recipient
- founded the cancer-fighting field of angiogesis, which promises treatment for more than 60 diseases
- world-class research team, with elite designations from the Institute of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and National Academy of Sciences
FIRSTS
- fetal surgery repair of a deadly heart defect
- successful remission of leukemia
• birthplace of pediatric surgery
- US pediatric hospital to use high-tech surgical robots, minimizing trauma and recovery time
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