Gunster Shareholder and marathoner Mike Freed and Jacksonville Area Legal Aid – joined by several event directors from the Northeast Florida community – are gearing up for the 2024 Freed to Run Challenge, a two-day event November 23-24 to benefit JALA’s Shelter for Elders endowment funding housing-related legal assistance for indigent seniors.

Individual runners, relay teams, walkers, and bikers will raise funds for the endowment through peer-to-peer fundraising based on a challenge to complete half-mile laps around the Duval County Courthouse in a period of either 12 or 24 hours. Other options are to run a 5k or to bike from the St. Johns County Courthouse to the Duval County Courthouse.

Those businesses, organizations and individuals wanting to participate, donate to the endowment, or lend their in-kind support to the event can contact the appropriate director: