2012 Charity Partner Winners

Thank you to all that par­tic­i­pated in our poll to decide the remain­ing char­ity part­ners for 2012.

In 2012, BC4C will con­tinue to sup­port the Pied­mont Park Con­ser­vancy with 50% of our pro­ceeds all year. Kate’s Club has been (and con­tin­ues to be) our fea­tured char­ity part­ner for the first quar­ter (Jan-Mar) of 2012. Addi­tion­ally, we will sup­port each of the fol­low­ing causes for one quar­ter with the remain­ing 50% of our proceeds.

And the win­ners are… drum­roll please…

1. Labrador Friends of the South — with 33.5% of the vote (991 votes)
2. Atlanta Bicy­cle Coali­tion — with 23.16% of the vote (685 votes)
3. Trees Atlanta — with 22.14% of the vote (655 votes)

Thank you to the 3,000 peo­ple that vis­ited our site to vote! We look for­ward to see­ing each of you in the park next year!

A Little Sweat Goes a Long Way

To date, Boot Camp 4a Cause has donated $48,000 to local causes — $25,000 of which has gone to the Pied­mont Park Con­ser­vancy. BC4C’s dona­tion to the PPC has pro­vided the equiv­a­lent of:

• 119 weeks of sum­mer camp scholarships
• 50 envi­ron­men­tal field trips for camp children
• 714 Bales of pine straw for landscaping
• 72 Pieces of land­scap­ing equip­ment, includ­ing pitchforks
• Aer­a­tion of 25 acres of turf
• 250 week sup­plies of dog­gie bags
• Plant­ing of 20 hard­wood trees
• Cre­ation of 5 Bird habi­tats and nest­ing boxes for the wet­land area
• Pur­chase of 2,083 energy effi­cient light­bulbs for park facilities
• Two season’s worth of flow­ers for the entire park

We need your help select­ing our remain­ing 2012 causes!

Pied­mont Park Con­ser­vancy receives 50% of BC4C’s pro­ceeds each month and Kate’s Club has been our fea­tured cause for the first quar­ter of 2012; but we want you, our boot campers and the gen­eral pub­lic, to choose our addi­tional 2012 causes. We will sup­port three addi­tional causes — one for each of the remain­ing quar­ters of the year.

Season of Magic

For those of us won­der­ing about horses in Pied­mont Park…

Pied­mont Park Conservancy’s 1st Annual Sea­son of Magic in Pied­mont Park kicks off on Sun­day, Novem­ber 20th and runs through New Year’s Day.

For the first time in the Park, cou­ples and fam­i­lies can enjoy daily horse-drawn car­riage rides, mak­ing Pied­mont Park the only Atlanta park with car­riage rides. Vis­i­tors will be car­ried through the his­toric and newly expanded areas of the Park, enjoy­ing beau­ti­ful hol­i­day lights under the scenic Atlanta sky­line. Rides are avail­able every ten min­utes from 5:00pm to 10:00pm daily. Each ride is approx­i­mately 20 min­utes in length. Infants ride free.

Other Sea­son of Magic events include weekly fam­ily friendly arts and crafts and a carousel with the Legacy Foun­tain light show in the back­ground. Atlantans are also wel­come to stroll through the Park to enjoy the fes­tive lights for free. The Con­ser­vancy will also offer cor­po­rate cock­tail party pack­ages through­out the sea­son, hosted in Mag­no­lia Hall.

Hard Work Reigns

This month’s shirt fea­tures the most dra­matic star of Novem­ber – the weather! From day­light sav­ing time light­ing changes to dra­matic shifts in tem­per­a­ture day by day to a par­tic­u­larly crazy-rainy work­out, the weather sure made things inter­est­ing. How­ever, noth­ing can dampen the HARD WORK brought by all this month. (And, yes, the shirt’s design really DOES list the actual weather report for each work­out this month.)

Please post your results and improve­ments from today’s PT test — we want to hear your suc­cess stories!

Novem­ber brings our dona­tion total to $42,080! (The extra $80 made pos­si­ble by our win­ning Train­ers for the Day.)

We are thank­ful for the Pied­mont Park Con­ser­vancy and our other high­lighted non-profits, such as Get Grounded, for all they do to improve our com­mu­nity. And we are thank­ful to YOU for mak­ing all of this possible!

Enjoy your hol­i­day this week. Try to go easy on the gravy and find time to fit in a few work­outs. See you next month, which really starts this month — on Tues­day, Novem­ber 29th!

Parktoberfest Was Enjoyed By All

Because of your gen­eros­ity, we have now donated a total of $40,000 to Pied­mont Park Con­ser­vancy and our other high­lighted non-profits, such as Get Grounded. Thanks for mak­ing all of this possible.

Please post your results and improve­ments from today’s PT test — we want to hear your suc­cess stories!

See you next month, start­ing Tues­day, Novem­ber 1st!