Event Date: October 2, 2016
The Hotel Association of New York City, Inc. will be holding its 25th Annual Hotel Industry Walkathon for Charity on Sunday, October 2, 2016. The Walkathon Kickoff Rally will be held at 9:00am at the Roosevelt Hotel, 45 East 45th Street at Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017 (Grand Ballroom – Mezzanine Level).
This year’s Walkathon for charity is for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). JDRF is the leading Global Organization funding Type 1 diabetes, a life-threatening autoimmune disease that strikes both children and adults. There presently is no cure for the disease. JDRF works every day to change this by amassing grassroots support, deep scientific knowledge and a strong industry and academic partnership to fund research.