On May 11th, runners arrived in Mannheim from around Germany to Run for Democracy in the Mannheim Half-Marathon and 10K runs. Not only that, but they collected sponsors to support them, and in the end, we raised over $3,000 in pledges for global Democrats Abroad (DPCA) to use in its Get Out The Vote efforts in 2020. Nancy Schimkat organized the event and hopes that other Chapters and Country Committees will be inspired to do something like this in the future.

Thanks to the runners:

Taryn Williams	Feroze Mohammad
Jack Miller	Gretchen Chojnacki-Herbers
Stephen Holmes	Beverly Seebach
Niki Vonderwell	Candice Kerestan
Justin Burstein	Kelsey McLendon
Matt LeMieux

Nancy was injured this year. However, she, along with Daniel Hoever-Eckardt, Angela Fobbs, Anne Johnson-Zander, Aileen Dinin,  and, Barbara Lutes cheered on our runners.

A special thanks to everyone who sponsored our runners and thanks to our members who hosted runners at their homes. Thanks to everyone who came out even though the weather was chilly and windy!