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Inclusive Running
Ongoing Efforts
Our mission and core values have long emphasized a welcoming and inclusive culture within the club and in our relationships with the community. Ongoing review of our policies and practices has encouraged us to reinforce our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do, internally and externally. RWM intends not only to accept and support all current and prospective members of the running and walking community, we also want to make conscious efforts to reach out, invite, actively welcome, and ask for help identifying and implementing changes that could improve DEI within the Run Wild organization. We consider it important to make an extra effort toward DEI within the over-arching framework of our Mission and Core Values.
One of our core values is giving back to the community in meaningful ways. The majority of this is offering other non-profits to be our beneficiary at one of our club races or a direct donation. We often select traditionally marginalized communities or smaller groups to uplift their voices via our platform.
In 2024 we raised and contributed nearly $100,000 to local groups.
Run Wild Missoula acknowledges that we are in the homelands of the Salish and Kalispel people. Today, we offer our respect for their history and culture, for their ancient and continuing presence in this landscape, and for the path they have shown us in caring for this place for the generations to come.
We offer complimentary entries for Indigenous participants.
We show films about Native and Frist People’s at our film festival.
We raise money annually for All nations Health Center.
At the Tony Banovich 5k, in lieu of the National Anthem we commission local Indigenous Singers to sing and Honor Song.
We partner with Rising Hearts.