Runners Raise $20K in Hoboken 'Resilience 5K'

More than one thousand people ran for a cause in Hoboken on Saturday morning.

The city announced that about $20,000 was raised for Sandy relief efforts for the City of Hoboken, the State of New Jersey, and Port Maria, Jamaica in Hoboken's "Resilience 5K."

According to United Nations Office for Disaster and Risk Reduction, the event could be repeated all across the world.

In a story on the UN's website, the chief of that department, Margareta Wahlström, who attended the race, said that "Hoboken's Resilience Run offers the 1,400 cities of the UN Resilient Cities Campaign an exemplary model of community engagement that harnesses the power of sports to bring people together for an important cause."