BUCKEYETHON Buckeyes Building Better Lives: Benefiting Nationwide Children's Hospital of Columbus & Children's Miracle Network One Kid at a Time 2009

About BuckeyeThon Where we came from Rosa Ailabouni in 2000 In 2002 raised $32, In 2008 raised $65,000 In Total, raised more than $300,000

About BuckeyeThon Where are we now Every year, students plan and attend BuckeyeThon 5k race Ohio State Students pack into a gym and dance for 14 hours straight In 2008, we doubled our dances to 645

About BuckeyeThon Where we are going Challenged to make $1,000,000 in 2011 Reached out to student organizations Our goal is to have every student participate in BuckeyeThon once

The Gee Challenge “BuckeyeThon is a great way to show everyone the spirit of this University: the fact that we care and the fact that we care deeply. Over the past few years we have raised over a quarter million dollars in support of this great endeavor. The truth of the matter is that we should raise a lot more. They raise a lot of money at Penn State. They raised a lot of money at Vanderbilt when I was there. This is the biggest and most audacious University in the country and we need to have this as a major goal.” President Gordan Gee

BuckeyeThon Causes Nationwide Children’s Hospital Founded in 1892 More then 300,000 patients Annually Staff of more than 700 practitioners More than 3600 employees Offer numerous special programs

BuckeyeThon Causes Nationwide Children’s Hospital Non-profit organization dedicated to improving lives of children 170 Children Miracle Network Hospitals BuckeyeThon has joined other schools in the Children's Miracle Network Dance Marathon Community

BuckeyeThon Contact Information Direction: Jenny Swaim: Nidhi Lahoti: Buckeyethon.osu.edu