Mileage Club
Motivating Elementary Students to Adopt Healthy Habits
Mary Greeley Mileage Club is an eight-week walking/running program for central Iowa elementary school children which is coordinated by Mary Greeley Medical Center’s Diabetes and Nutrition Education Center and sponsored by the Mary Greeley Foundation. In addition to encouraging exercise, Mileage Club also has nutrition and hydration components.
Mileage Club was launched in the spring of 2006 with a Harkin Community Wellness Grant. The grant only lasted two years, but the program was so well-liked that Mary Greeley Medical Center opted to take it over. The program has now found a home in Mary Greeley’s Diabetes and Nutrition Education Center, which is a perfect place for it given the center’s focus on issues related to childhood nutrition and obesity.
Sponsors, donors, volunteers and school staff are instrumental in ensuring the program’s success in the more than a dozen elementary schools in which Mileage Club is offered.
Our Generous Sponsors
Presenting Sponsors
Sustaining Sponsor
Pacemaker Sponsors
- NAI Electrical Contractors/ NAI Structured Cabling Systems
- Ag Leader Technologies
Caretaker Sponsors
- Ames National Corporation and affiliates: First National Bank, Reliance State Bank, State Bank & Trust Co.
- Fareway Stores
- Danfoss Power Solutions
- Jester Insurance Services
- Northcrest Community
- Shive-Hattery, Inc.
Supporting Sponsors
- 10 Fold Architecture
- Alfred’s Carpet & Decorating, Inc.
- Ames Ford Lincoln
- Dentistry at Somerset
- Graham Construction
- Hanger Clinic, Ames
- Henkel Construction
- Knapp Tedesco Insurance
- Nyemaster Goode, PC
- Sign Pro of Ames
- Story Construction
- Wandling Engineering
- Wolfe Eye Clinic
