Out of the Ashes 5k & Remembrance Walk

TEAM AWARDS

$1,000
Customized Team Button to wear at the event
A Team Yard sign along the route of the interactive walk

$2,000
Personalized Team T-Shirts

$3,000
Child's name added to our 2026 Wall of Remembrance + 5 Care Packs sent in honor of child

$5,000
Name a medical bill relief grant, which will be given to a newly-bereaved family in 2026.

$8,000 
Receive a custom memorial brick added to the Out of the Ashes Brick section at Our Children’s Memorial Walkway at Frazier Park. When Brick is installed, OOTA will host a “Brick Reveal Memorial” in your honor.

TOP 3 TEAMS

1st Place:

• Featured Family at our “A Good Pour” event in 2026 which includes:
• Professional video featuring your family
• Themed cocktail bar in your honor
• 1 of the 5 courses will honor your family
• Silent Auction basket in your honor
• Printed sign with your story
• Head Table with 10 VIP Tickets at the event

2nd Place:

• Printed sign with your story to be featured at our “A Good Pour” event in 2026
• VIP Table with 8 tickets at our “A Good Pour” event

3rd Place:

• Printed sign with your story to be featured at our “A Good Pour” event in 2026
• 2 General Admission tickets to our “A Good Pour” event (if over $10,000 is raised, you will receive 2 VIP tickets!)

INDIVIDUAL FUNDRAISER AWARDS

$1,500 – Name one of our Medical Bill Relief Grants

Top Individual: 2 VIP Tickets to our 2026 “A Good Pour” event

Each year, our hope is that this race will be a place to remember and acknowledge every woman who longs to be a mother and every life gone too soon. Our race consists of both a competitive 5k run or an interactive Remembrance Walk (1 mile). The interactive element has markers every kilometer representing the infertility journey, miscarriage, stillbirth and infant loss.

COMPETITIVE 5K
The route is mostly flat through a residential neighborhood. Roads will not be closed, so please be cognizant of driveways and neighborhood traffic. We will have a security vehicle at the front leading the runners. The route is 2 loops, with the second slightly shorter than the first. Please look for way-finding signs and volunteers to help direct you throughout the route. Awards will be given to top 3 finishers in each age category. 

REMEMBRANCE WALK
Along the route – at the different markers – you will see tables with candles and signs representing the stage of pregnancy. If you are walking in memory of a child gone too soon or a couple who longs to be parents, there will be space at each marker to honor that child or family. Many parents grieve these various losses in isolation, unsure of how to feel and unaware of shared experiences in their community. This event is a tangible picture of just how many families in our midst are affected by this type of loss.

AWARDS & CLOSING CEREMONIES
At the conclusion of the race, we will recognize top 3 finishers, male and female, in each age category for the competitive 5k and virtual run. We will also hear from a few speakers about their personal experience with pregnancy loss, early infant loss, and infertility. We hope this will be a sweet time to come together as a community and support each other as we remember the significant lives of those we’ve lost. We encourage all participants to stay for this part of the event. 

HOW THIS RACE WAS BORN
On October 23, 2019, founders Theo & Brittany Facinoli gave birth to their stillborn daughter, Hannah. She had died 2 days before at 29 weeks gestation. They only knew of two people – in their 31 years — who had experienced something like this before. But since then, they have watched many untold stories come into the light.

For those of us whose pregnancies ended before we could bring home our babies, it’s difficult to find ways to honor those precious lives. Many of us want to keep their memories alive, but the world around us keeps moving, leaving us alone in our grief. A lifetime seems like an impossible time to wait, but until we meet again, we will honor the life they had – in the womb or in the far-too-few moments on this earth.

We have learned that beauty will rise out of the ashes as we allow their significant lives – no matter how short – to have an eternal impact.