People Impacted: ??
SIFE Students Involved: 3
Audience: Athletes of Oregon, Washington, Idaho

A business consulting project with the domestic violence/sexual assault shelters of Northeast Oregon in which SIFE is planning, promoting, and performing a benefit bike/run relay race. Advertisements are being distributed in sporting goods stores and media outlets throughout Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, as well as online. Proceeds from the race go to the shelters' operating funds budgets so they may continue to provide valuable benefits including, but not limited to, crisis intervention services such as, aid in the form of sheltering victims and their immediate family, counseling, support groups, providing transportation, and providing advocacy in the legal system, answering crisis hotlines, and making community presentations. All materials will be given to the shelters' board of directors for future use.

Results: The race takes place on May 31, 2003, but EOU SIFE has already collected $500 in corporate sponsorship and plans on grossing $10,000 by the conclusion of the event. This achievement would be a tremendous increase over the previous year's fund-raiser.