The 2025 Lifebanc Gift of Life Walk and Run took place on Aug. 10 at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, a debut location for the event that offered expansive greenspace, to raise awareness and support for organ, eye and tissue donation.

Lifebanc, Northeast Ohio’s nonprofit organ, eye and tissue recovery organization, hosts the annual event to promote fitness and organ donation through a 1-mile family fun walk and a 5k race. Proceeds from the race go towards supporting Lifebanc’s mission of providing community education, donor family care and advocacy for organ donor registration.

“Every step we take today is in honor of someone’s story – a life saved, a loved one remembered or a family still waiting for their call,” Katie Payne, CEO of Lifebanc, said in a news release. “The Gift of

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