MARCH FOR BABIES:
A MOTHER OF A MOVEMENT™
Milwaukee
10273 Whitnall Court , Hales Corners, WI 53130
Date: Sunday, May 19, 2024 9:00 AM
Add to Calendar
Important Update
Our March for Babies celebration is still on, but it looks a little different! We are rapidly preparing for a new, virtualized event that will be fun and engaging for everyone. This change in format aligns with the newly released CDC guidance for large events, to help ensure the safety and health of our participants. More details on our new format to come soon!
When you join March for Babies, you’re joining a movement to improve health outcomes for families because our country is facing a maternal and infant health crisis. It’s unacceptable. Each year, one woman dies every 12 hours from pregnancy and childbirth complications, two babies die every hour, and 1 in 10 babies is born too soon.
As a March for Babies community, we’re better together. We’re stronger together. We’re louder together. United by our shared passion for helping families, we rally through the highs and lows of pregnancy and parenting at every point of the journey. Across the country, as teams and individuals, this collective community is part of an even greater movement—a mother of a movement—to help March of Dimes work to close the health equity gap and end preventable maternal and infant risks and death.
Together we will UNITE, CONNECT, HONOR, and CARE for every family to improve maternal and infant health. We’ll support every family with health education and resources. We’ll help fund research to change the future of our children—and our children’s children. We’ll push for policy changes that protect moms and moms-to-be.
We will make change happen.
Join our community. Fundraise for families.
HOW IT WORKS
REGISTER - Join as an individual, as a member of a community or corporate team, or even as a team captain. Whatever you choose, be sure to ask everyone you know to join, too.
RAISE MONEY - Raise money through your fundraising page, social media or the old fashioned way of asking friends and family to help.
CELEBRATE & WALK WITH US - March with us! Celebrate with your family and friends at the walk and join in the Opening Ceremony, Superhero Sprint, and Memory Garden.
SIGNATURE ELEMENTS
CELEBRATE - With us! We kick-off our 5k walk by celebrating our Honorary Ambassador Family. Listen to inspiring family stories that have been impacted by March of Dimes' mission.
UNITE - For health equity, ensuring that every mother has access to healthcare and safeguarding the well-being of families by advocating for their rights. We invite you to visit the UNITE TENT to register for our Action Network, receive your Show of Hands bracelet, discover the March of Dimes Mission, and obtain a chat bubble to capture your mission picture!
CONNECT - With people who share a common goal of promoting the health and well-being of mothers and babies. Participate in enjoyable activities such as Touch a Truck, capture memorable moments of your children on the Giant Cart, CONNECT with our community partners in resource row, and spread positivity by writing uplifting messages on postcards to healthcare workers.
HONOR - Motherhood, babies, and those who have experienced loss by staying active and creating change. Take time to reflect those who have endured the pain and struggle of loss in our MEMORY GARDEN. Leave their name on our tree and plant a butterfly in the garden to take home at the end of the day to remember.
CARE - For all families from prenatal to pospatrum at our CARE TENT. Make time to visit the NICU Grad section, decorate your stroller and why you walk, paint a rock, and participate in the SWANN Teddy Bear Clinic.
Invite your friends and family to our March for Babies celebration and walk on Sunday, May 19th at Whitnall Park in Hales Corners, Wisconsin! Event Day Timeline Coming Soon!
EXPERIENCE PROGRESS* $77,055 RAISED (As of Friday, Mar 29, 2024)
Raised: $77,055
Ambassador Story
Cogan and Dean