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This “Incredible” group was one of the hundreds of families who came out to run and to support Child Advocates of Houston.

Another successful year for the Child Advocates of Houston Superheroes Run!   We had 1,000 runners and raised about $150,000 for the best charity in town.  And the rain held off until the exact moment everyone was already headed home!   This was year 6 of the event.  I’ve threatened to step down as Chairman and turn it over to someone else once we’ve raised a cumulative $1 million (which we’re creeping up on!)…but we’ll see.

I’m forever in the debt of our Race Director Angie Parker (who has done this race with me all six years), and the Child Advocates Events director Hayley Jaska.  Both are efficient, expert professionals who do their work with the spirit of dedicated charitable volunteers.  The event would have fallen apart without them.  I am similarly in debt to our sponsors, a great many of whom are my own dear friends.  I worry that sane people will avoid befriending me since most every Houston friend of mine gets their arm twisted to support this event.  

If you’re from Houston, take a look at these pictures and make plans to join us in October 2019.   It’s for a great cause.  Child Advocates’ volunteers serve kids who have been taken from their homes due to suspected abuse or neglect.  The volunteers guide and support the kids, gather the facts, and work with the courts and the State to find permanent, safe solutions.  CA recruits, trains and supports those volunteers.  My consistent pitch for Child Advocates as Houston’s best charity is this:

1. CAI helps kids in our own hometown who are in desperate situations through no conceivable fault of their own.
2. CAI’s one-time intervention seeks to permanently and efficiently solve problems and affect the kids’ entire lives, without creating dependency or requiring permanent or ongoing assistance.
3. CAI’s cause is financially undersupported, largely because few potential large donors have close personal experience with, or risks of, this kind of extreme child neglect or abuse. There’s nothing wrong with donating to your own alma mater or church, or to charities addressing diseases that affect you or your family, but that can leave a huge gap for charities like Child Advocates.  I think this is true philanthropy.

These few pictures are just the tip of the Superhero iceberg:  CLICK HERE FOR A MUCH LARGER BATCH OF PICTURES. 

See prior years’ writeups on the Superheroes Run here:  2016, 2015, 2014, 2013.