2016 Team Framingham Boston Marathon Applications Now Available

FRAMINGHAM, MA—The Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A) gives Framingham 20-25 invitational Boston Marathon entries because of its "host community" status. In 2014, the Team Framingham program was established with two major goals, according to the announcement:

• To provide town residents and town and school employees with an opportunity to participate in the Boston Marathon.
• Provide locally based charities an opportunity to benefit from fundraising associated with the invitational entries.

Since it began, $269,000 has been raised for local charities by Team Framingham. As a result of the program’s success and increased interest on the part by local charities, the Board of Selectmen reviewed the existing charity selection process and outlined a new process for Team Framingham 2018 charity selection, said the release.

The 2018 charity selection process will culminate with charities selected in a random drawing from a pool of all qualified charity applications received. Charity applications will be accepted through Nov. 1. The random drawing for charity selection will be scheduled to coincide with the overall Team Framingham program timeline.

Charity Qualification Guidelines:

• Registered 501(c)(3).
• Not religious-based or political organizations.
• Have a Framingham location and provide services to Framingham residents and Framingham organizations.
• Have an online fundraising platform with the ability to segregate Team Framingham Funds.
• Provide fundraising and training support for their respective runners.
• Attend a minimum of three (3) onsite informational meetings in support of the Team Framingham program.

Random Selection Process:

• The random charity selection process will be conducted by the Board of Selectmen or their designee.
• Each qualified charity will be assigned a number on a spreadsheet based on the order in which their applicationwas approved.
• The spreadsheet number associated with each qualified charity will be placed in a container. Numbers will be drawnone at a time from this container until the number of charities randomly selected is equal to 25 percent of the total invitational entries received. Less than whole numbers will be rounded down for the purposes of determining the 25 percent threshold.
• Click here for the Team Framingham Charity Application

Using the 2017 quantity of 22 B.A.A. Invitational Entries as an example, there would be five (5) qualified charities selected via random drawing.

Runner Selection Process

Following the random selection process for Team Framingham runners, each runner will select one charity from the list of randomly selected charities and conduct their fundraising efforts on behalf of that charity. Team Framingham runner applications will be available on Oct. 2. That application period will run from Oct. 2 through Nov. 27.

It is incumbent upon the charities to remain engaged with the Team Framingham program, as well as to engage selected runners and encourage their participation on behalf of their respective charity, said the release.