What better way to start off your Brooklyn Pride Saturday than with a morning 5K (3.1 mile) LGBTQIA+ fun run? You'll be joined by hundreds of runners from across NYC and beyond as you race through scenic and historic Prospect Park.
The race is sponsored by Brooklyn Pride and presented by Maimonides Health in partnership with Front Runners New York.
Volunteer Grant Program
Brooklyn Pride is one of the largest and most prominent organizations serving Brooklyn’s LGBTQIA+ community, putting on an entire week of festivities to celebrate Brooklyn Pride Week. The organization strives to increase visibility, acceptance, and inclusion, ensuring equality for the LGBTQIA+ Community. We achieve this through Pride Week and other community events that commemorate, educate, promote, and celebrate the Spirit of the Stonewall Riots. In continuation of this mission, the Volunteer Grant program seeks to support and celebrate local non-profit organizations that provide direct support services to the LGBTQIA+ community.
Brooklyn Pride, Inc. is accepting applications for the program from now until May 1, 2024. If selected, the organization will agree to provide a minimum of 5 volunteers for a Brooklyn Pride event, either the LGBTQIA+ 5K, the Street Festival, the Twilight Parade, and the Brooklyn Pride Youth Pride to receive a grant. Don't wait - apply today!
The Brooklyn Pride LGBTQIA+ 5K Run/Walk would not be possible without the support of its key sponsors:
PRESENTING SPONSOR: Maimonides Health
Maimonides Health is Brooklyn’s largest healthcare system, serving over 250,000 patients each year through the system’s 3 hospitals, 1800 physicians and more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers. The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation’s largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties; Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital), a 130 bed adult medical-surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children’s Hospital, Brooklyn’s only children’s hospital and only pediatric trauma center. Maimonides’ clinical programs rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neurosciences Institute, Bone and Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. For additional information, please visit www.maimo.org.
RUNNING PARTNER: Front Runners New York
Front Runners New York is an LGBT running club is your place for a support community of athletes of all ability levels and interest and boasts over ONE THOUSAND lovely individuals. The club hosts fun runs, open to everyone, Tuesday nights in Brooklyn at Prospect Park and Wednesday nights and Saturday mornings in Central Park. If you choose to join FRNY [annual memberships start at only $30], you can take advantage of the weekly organized long runs, speed training, multisport workouts, social events, and much, much more!