{"id":3005,"date":"2022-05-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familyhouseinc.org\/article\/my-bay-to-breakers-experience-and-why-i-run-for-family-house\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T14:54:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T21:54:59","slug":"my-bay-to-breakers-experience-and-why-i-run-for-family-house","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/familyhouseinc.org\/tl\/article\/my-bay-to-breakers-experience-and-why-i-run-for-family-house\/","title":{"rendered":"My Bay to Breakers Experience and Why I Run for Family House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\n

Bay to Breakers<\/span><\/a> is one of my favorite days in San Francisco every year. I love the energy of the city on that day, no matter where you are. You could be sitting in the Panhandle enjoying the sun and cheering on the myriad of costumed runners going by, waiting at the starting line, dodging tortillas as everyone gets ready to start running, or even nowhere near the race and yet enjoy the special feeling in the air on that day. <\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\n

Bay to Breakers always stands out to me as a day that highlights why I love living in San Francisco. Especially, the last few years have meant so much more being able to combine what was already such a great day with the opportunity to help raise funds and awareness for <\/span>Family House<\/span><\/a> with the <\/span>Young Professionals Advisory Council (YPAC)<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\n

I joined YPAC in 2017 after spending a few years getting exposed to Family House through corporate volunteer events at Triage Consulting Group. At Triage, we would have a few opportunities a year to volunteer at several different charities and non-profits in the Bay Area, and I always hurried to sign up for Family House right away to reserve my spot. <\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\n

Our team would decorate the Family House for holidays, cook meals for the families, and play games with the kids. Everything about volunteering at Family House felt right to me. Family House’s mission to partner with <\/span>UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital<\/span><\/a> to help ease the burden of families going through such challenging times is a fantastic cause that has a significant and lasting effect on the families that stay there. But when you get to be in the house, talking with the families, playing games with the kids, cooking warm meals, you really see what an amazing job they are doing to go above and beyond for these families. They really manage to provide comfort and relief during an unimaginably hard time for families.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\n

That is why I jumped at the opportunity to join YPAC when I found out about it. The goal of YPAC has always been to spread awareness of Family House through the community of young professionals in the Bay Area while simultaneously holding events to help raise funds to support Family House operations, which means that every individual involved does have a huge impact. <\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\n

Sharing Family House’s mission with your network can help spread the word and support what they are doing. I have contributed to this organization in a few ways over the years \u2014 from being a supporting member to the organization’s Chair. No matter what capacity I have been involved in, I have felt energized by the mission and vision of the Family House and YPAC. <\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\n

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