Dance Marathon benefits patients at NC Children's Hospital
By Andy Willard | Feb. 14, 2013When Matt Ayotte’s daughter was born at N.C. Children’s Hospital 11 years ago, she weighed 1 pound, 5 ounces — nearly the size of a Coke bottle.
Read More »UNC Dance Marathon is a yearly fundraising event that requires participants to remain on their feet for 24 hours in a no-sitting, no-sleeping challenge. Since it was founded in 1998, 10,000 students have volunteered to be a part of the event. 13 active committees work all year long to organize and publicize the event.
In 2014, UNC-DM raised $551,595.87 for N.C. Children’s Hospital. With that money, it is providing 13 different grants to kids.
When Matt Ayotte’s daughter was born at N.C. Children’s Hospital 11 years ago, she weighed 1 pound, 5 ounces — nearly the size of a Coke bottle.
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When Matt Ayotte’s daughter was born at N.C. Children’s Hospital 11 years ago, she weighed 1 pound, 5 ounces — nearly the size of a Coke bottle.
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Dance Marathon is famous among UNC students for its enthusiastic recruiting and passionate participants, often dressed in wild costumes and shouting, “For the kids.”
Read More »After getting involved with North Carolina Children’s Hospital through Dance Marathon, this candidate wants to do something more for the kids.
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UNC students took to Franklin Street Wednesday night to celebrate Halloween, but they weren’t the only ones to celebrate.
Read More »This month, both UNC’s and Penn State’s Dance Marathons boasted record-breaking participation. And though UNC Dance Marathon was inspired by Penn State’s version, their bottom lines aren’t exactly comparable: UNC Dance Marathon raised $483,210.36 for the N.C. Children’s Hospital with 2,000 dancers, while Penn State raised $10.68 million for a children’s hospital with only 700 dancers.
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For UNC’s Dance Marathon staff, the days preceding Friday’s 24-hour storm of dancing, cheering and standing have been anything but calm.
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UNC Dance Marathon leaves my head spinning from the power of a simple act — standing. A blue chair in the middle of my committee’s small workroom in Fetzer Hall was emblematic of that act.
Read More »With only one week left until the big stand, UNC Dance Marathon is going beyond date auctions and benefit concerts. Today is the town of Chapel Hill’s first official Dance Marathon Day.
Read More »TO THE EDITOR: You may have noticed more than 300 UNC Dance Marathon committee members shouting encouragement to sign up to dance last week. That’s because we, along with the patients and families who we meet, have been integrally affected by this organization and its cause.
Read More »For the first time ever, the Carolina Athletic Association is donating some of its T-shirt profits to a campus organization. The recipient will come as no surprise to students. Dance Marathon will receive $2 for every Homecoming T-shirt sold. They will cost 12 dollars each, which is in line with previous years.
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Advance registration is now open for the only event this year truly working “fore” the kids. The UNC Dance Marathon Homecoming Golf Classic is ringing in its fifth year as the only full tournament that donates proceeds to the North Carolina Children’s Hospital.
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More than 1,000 students packed into Fetzer Gym Friday, pledging to stand — and often dance — for an entire day to raise money for the N.C. Children’s Hospital.
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Read More »The 2010 Dance Marathon, held on February 19th and 20th, is a year-long fundraising effort for the UNC Children's Hospital. More than 1,600 students pledged to stand in Fetzer Gymnasium for 24 hours.
Read More »Tonight, 1,600 dancers will gather in Fetzer Gymnasium to kick off the 12th annual UNC Dance Marathon. Patience Obasaju, the operations chairperson for Dance Marathon, gives a behind-the-scenes look at the preparations for the marathon.
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Correction (March 22, 2010 10:37 p.m.): Due to an editing error, this story misattributed a statement to Kate Gillam, media representative for Dance Marathon. Gillam did not say that organizers did not expect all 1,800 people who signed up last year to participate. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the error.Wearing Santa hats, leopard-print leggings and neon skirts and socks, recruiters for UNC Dance Marathon haven’t yet lost their enthusiasm for the 24-hour dance event.But with a participant limit set for the first time, organizers said they won’t be able to recruit the same number of dancers they did last year.
Read More »Dance Marathon hosted a Ben & Jerry's Vermonster eating challenge between five teams to raise money for the N.C. Children's Hospital. The group is recruiting dancers this week.
Read More »For 9 years UNC has celebrated the best one-night stand of its life.The traditional 24 hours of gyrating bodies and group dances will feature a record number of volunteers gathering in Fetzer Gym for the 10th annual Dance Marathon charity event.
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