GiveForward Partners with City Chase

Chicago, IL, August 21, 2009 --(PR.com)-- What happens when “Fear Factor” meets the “Amazing Race?” You get a taste of City Chase Chicago, a scavenger hunt style sporting-event taking place this Saturday, August 22. As City Chase describes, its time once again “to turn the windy city into an urban playground.” For most of the afternoon, teams of two attempt to complete 10 challenges. They will run, walk and use public transit to navigate their way throughout the city, while calling family and friends for help, accessing the Internet and even employing assistance of total strangers. Last year, you could find teams milking a cow, completing a boot camp, racing horses in Grant Park, and even stuffing a snake down their shirts. It may sound ridiculous, but hundreds of teams have registered to participate in what’s now “The World’s Largest Urban Adventure Series.”

This year, GiveForward.org, a new online fundraising website committed to helping individuals and non-profits raise money for good causes, is going to be a part of City Chase Chicago. They are partnering with City Chase and sponsoring one of the event chase points, which are the challenges scattered in unknown locations throughout the city, meant to “test mind, body and spirit. GiveForward has designed their challenge, however details of the event must remain a secret. But in the spirit of charity, it involves obtaining non-perishable food for the Greater Chicago Food Depository.

City Chase may not be a Chicago marathon, but it’s a whole new game of endurance that GiveForward co-founders Desiree Vargas and Ethan Austin say they are thrilled to be a part of.

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For More Information Contact:

Desiree Vargas
President & Co-Founder, GiveForward.org
211 W. Wacker Dr., 1800
Chicago, IL 60606
Cell: 913-638-8107
Email: desiree@giveforward.org