April 21, 2022 marks a very special day for employees from Florida businesses and nonprofits. Teams from all across Florida will gather in Orlando for a 27-year tradition.
What’s so special about April 21st? The SimplyIOA Corporate 5K, of course!
Held annually, the 5K is a fundraising event exclusively for Florida’s corporate community to promote camaraderie, friendly competition, and celebration with coworkers. Since 1995, Insurance Office of America, the parent company of SimplyIOA, has been a proud sponsor of this event. For the last couple of years, SimplyIOA has been honored to take over as the presenting sponsor!
Here are five facts you should know about the upcoming SimplyIOA Corporate 5K:
If your Florida corporation or nonprofit is looking for a powerful way to increase camaraderie, there’s nothing like working together towards a common goal. Training and working as a team to accomplish a common healthy goal is an even more compelling way to bring your organization’s employees together.
What’s more: your teams across the United States can join in the fun too! The Virtual 5K event is available to those employees who want to join from afar.
Annual runs aren’t just a one-time event; they become an annual tradition for your company and your team. Employees will look forward to the race each year, foster healthy competition, and work hard to improve.
At SimplyIOA and IOA, we love our annual race tradition: we’ll all leave our office by 3pm to get to Lake Eola. Then, we meet up at our tent in the Sponsor Gold Zone to get ready, have dinner, take our team picture, and get ready to run.
Every quarter, our organization donates $5,000 to a charity that’s hand selected by our employees. The SimplyIOA Corporate 5K takes our mission to give back even further.
We’re proud to fundraise and make donations to Second Harvest Food Bank. Thanks to the 2021 SimplyIOA Corporate 5K, an incredible 65,000 meals were donated to the incredible organization to feed hungry families across Central Florida.
This year, our goal is to donate 150,000 meals to Second Harvest Food Bank. Donations can be made between now and race day.
The SimplyIOA Corporate 5K doesn’t start with training and end with a 5K and donations to a worthy cause. Contests along the way and on race day will boost your team’s creativity and team spirit.
Contests for the Corporate 5K include: Track Shack T-Shirt Design Contest, Team Spirit Award presented by SimplyIOA, and the Top Fundraiser Spoon Award. Learn more about each contest here.
When it comes to our companies’ most important asset — our people — SimplyIOA is relentless in finding ways to better align health and wellness initiatives with what our team needs. It’s infused in our culture.
But that passion doesn’t end at our doorstep; we’ve created events like the SimplyIOA Corporate 5K because infusing better employee health and wellbeing should be a priority for every organization.
Is your business or nonprofit team ready to run in the SimplyIOA Corporate 5K? Learn more about the event and register for your spot on April 21, 2022 in Orlando, Florida.