Heart Challenge
Chicago

About Heart Challenge

We believe everyone deserves the opportunity to be healthier and happier! Heart Challenge delivers the opportunity to feel good by doing good.

Across the nation, Heart Challenge is comprised of Heart Walk, CycleNation and Field Day. This suite of activities and initiatives are designed to help companies positively impact employee health and well-being while uniting them to raise funds to end heart disease and stroke.

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Volunteer Leadership

Volunteer Leaders are the heartbeat behind the success of our signature campaigns. As we take Heart Challenge into the community, our aim is to meet people where they are by providing them with the inspiration, resources and knowledge, they need to make healthier choices – all while ensuring that everything we do is centered around health equity. Our Heart Challenge Chair leads an Executive Leadership Team who serve to enhance the mission and impact of the American Heart Association through corporate investment, employee engagement and expert council to achieve campaign goals.

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Heart Walk

I walk to save lives, so can you. Heart Walk unites employees in celebrating health and honoring survivors. With 250+ events nationwide, we move, have fun and raise lifesaving funds- together through our signature experience.

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Executives With Heart

Being a member of Executives with Heart for the American Heart Association is about coming together - leaders from every city in America - as a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives. Executives with Heart members work to raise critical funds through their network and personal investment.

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Field Day

Never stop playing. Teams of employees participate in physical, mental, and fundraising challenges which provides meaningful connection and play breaks in their workday. Companies who participate in Field Day host the event on their own campus or a nearby park, even virtually.

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Cyclenation

CycleNation is an experiential campaign with a focus on fundraising, connection, well-being and getting moving through cycling. It's a movement to empower people to get healthy while funding vital research to eradicate stroke. Join us and "Ride the Revolution".

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2023 Total
Heart Challenge Impact

Campaign runs September 2023 — September 2024. Check back often to see our progress.

856

Participants

218

Teams

$1M

Total Impact

Our Progress

$1,031,940

Our Goal

$4,375,000

Your Support Helps Change Lives

Unleash the power of a happier, healthier workforce. Use our free Well-being Works Better leadership and employee resources and assess your culture with the Workforce Well-being Scorecard. Employers completing the Scorecard will be recognized in Forbes BrandVoice annually.

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