Boston Marathon a Test of Runners’ Fundraising Endurance - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active an engaged democracy.

Boston Marathon a Test of Runners’ Fundraising Endurance - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active an engaged democracy.: However, some runners participating in the marathon are finding the new fundraising minimum—upped to $4,000 this year despite a sputtering economy—more of an endurance test than they had expected. Runner Allison Buzzell, for example, reports that she is having a hard time raising the $4,000, and the stress that this causes is exacerbated by the fact that “most charities take runners’ credit card numbers, meaning that if a runner does not raise the required amount, blisters may not be the race’s only lasting pain,” as the Worcester Telegram & Gazette recently put it. “The charities can—and often do—charge the runners’ cards.”