App Project: Charity Miles Michael Soohoo

PURPOSE For every mile you run, walk or bike a corporate sponsor (Humana, Johnson and Johnson and Chobani) donates money to a charity of your choice; Every Mile ran gets your charity .25 Cents and for every Mile you Bike you earn .10 Cents per mile biked ( Has settings for indoor and outdoor running; However, Indoor Biking has no setting) The App is free to Download on IPhones or Androids Charity Miles currently has about 20 charities that you can donate your earnings to some of the charities are : Habitat for Humanity, St. Judes Children’s Research Hospital, Wounded Warrior Project, Special Olympics and much more

Program The incentive based program for employees throughout the company would be a challenge: A specific date would be set for the employees to have all their miles and total earned money in. Although the App keeps your miles tracked we will have our own personal trackers to keep for our own company logs to compare your progress to others and see where you stand The top 5 employees at the end will winprizes: (i.e) First Place week paid vacation, Second Place 300$ and so on for the prize winnings. If you don’t win a prize you get the satisfaction of helping charities as well as getting yourself in better shape throughout the program.

Benefits The goal of downloading this app is to get everyone in the company involved. If everyone working downloads the app and every time they walk or run or bike it could be helping someone in need. Inside the work place we would do an incentive based program with prizes determined by who walks/runs/bikes the most therefore earning the most for their charities. Not only does it help charities and people in need, it also gives the employees a reason to get up and get active. Downloading this App throughout the company while having the incentive based program , it will not only be benefiting charities it will also help improve each employees own Health by staying active.

Benefits Not only will the program be able to help people through charities and their own physical well being the company also can get an extra incentive to start the wellness program. Johnson and Johnson a corporate sponsor of charity miles estimated that between 2002 and 2008 they saved about 250$ million in health care costs. The returns for the program was about $2.71 for every dollar spent over that time

Conclusion A study of a random 185 high risk health workers that were not heart patients but high risk health patients ( body fat, blood pressure anxiety etc..) of those 185 random workers 57% were reduced to low health risk at the end of the 6 month health program This program can not only help the charities it companies; it gives the company a chance to make a change to the workers and their families by starting a Company Wellness Program that could help change employees lives.