Running 2,500 Miles of Hope Through America to Help Orphans

About the Dreamchasers Foundation

The Dreamchaser Foundation was established in 2008 to encourage amateur and professional athletes alike to use their passion for sports for charitable ends..

To date, Lisa Smith Batchen has raised over 4.5 million dollars for charity. She was personally invited to meet with the Pope as thanks for the work she has done to support AIDS Orphans Rising.

“I run, that’s what I do,” said Smith Batchen. “If each of us did one thing to make the world a better place, together we could find solutions to many of the problems that plague orphans. I encourage people everywhere to do what they can by giving $5, $50 or $500 to change these young people’s lives. With the love and support they need and deserve, orphans can thrive.”

Smith Batchen has a very personal connection to orphans, too: she and her husband have two adopted children. “If my kids hadn’t been adopted, they’d be orphans.”

Whether a child in Ethiopia has lost his parents to AIDS, a young person in the United States has been abandoned or an infant in Haiti has suddenly lost her family in the earthquake, Running Hope Through America looks to raise one million dollars to support three organizations that will make a difference in these orphans' lives: AIDS Orphans Rising, the Orphan Foundation of America and The Caring House Project.

Thank you for helping to make this world a better place.