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
- Chevron Renewable Energy Group
Pacemaker Sponsors
- Ag Leader Technology
- Danfoss Power Solutions
- NAI Electrical Contractors/NAI Structured Cabling Systems
Caretaker Sponsors
- Ames National Corporation and affiliates: First National Bank, Reliance State Bank, State Bank & Trust Co.
- Fareway
- Graham Construction Company
- Greater Iowa Credit Union
- Jester Insurance Services
- Northwest Bank
- Northcrest Community
- RMH Architects
- Shive–Hattery, Inc.
- Wolfe Eye Clinic
Supporting Sponsors
- Alfred’s Carpet & Decorating
- Ames Ford Lincoln
- Bankers Trust
- BASF Agricultural Products, Ames
- Celebrations Party & Rental
- Dentistry at Somerset
- First Interstate Bank
- Hanger Clinic, Ames
- Henkel Construction/Accord Architecture
- Knapp Tedesco Insurance
- Mittera
- Sign Pro of Ames
- Storey Kenworthy – Workspace
- Story Construction
- VisionBank
