How is the ATC involved in the community?
In addition to promoting a healthy lifestyle through running, the ATC contributes to the community in a number of ways. Through the ATC Foundation, the ATC provides financial support to youth running programs. The Club honors the state’s best high school runners and coaches in both cross-country and track and field, and the men’s and women’s Coaches of the Year, naming the ATC All-Metro team at the close of each season. It also helps to fund the Georgia High School Track and Field Hall of Fame. The Club’s running shoe recycling program takes serviceable used running shoes, teams them with fresh new socks, and donates them to deserving recipients through several community agencies. More than 11,000 runners work up an appetite every Thanksgiving while running The Atlanta Marathon and Half Marathon. One dollar of every application fee is donated to the Thanksgiving Day meal programs administered by the various churches lining the course. Piedmont Park serves as the finish area of the AJC
