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2024- 3rd Annual Walk for Smiles!

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We paused in 2023, but we were back and better than ever in 2024!

Our annual walk was again, a big success! We had around 200 registrants and their support never fails to astound us! We walked at the beautiful Millennium Park on October 26, 2024!

Our sponsors also provided such amazing support and helped us put on a special event! Sending all our sponsors a huge THANK YOU for believing in us and supporting our mission!

Platinum Sponsor:

Gold sponsor:

Silver:

Food Donations:

Our event is meant to be a family friendly, trick or treat walk, so we love seeing everyone show up with their costumes on! This is our biggest fundraiser of the year, and we really try to put on a fun event that brings people back year after year! We had delicious bagel sticks from Terra bagels, Timbits from Tim Hortons, fresh apples from Michigan apple farms, and LOTS of candy and treats along our walk!

This event typically brings our organization around $8-9000 which is always being put to good use to support our community. Our application for requests is ALWAYS open, so we’re ready to receive your requests! And check out our past events, while you’re here browsing!

Be on the lookout for our next walk, October 2025!

2022- 2nd Annual Walk for Smiles

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Our 2022 Annual walk was a big success!

Held at the beautiful Millennium Park, in Grand Rapids, Michigan on October 29, 2022, we saw an amazing turnout of friends, family and supporters. We had around 215 registrants! The walk/trunk-or-treat was so much fun for kids and adults and provided a way to showcase our awesome sponsors.

Sponsors for this event included:

Platinum– Summit Landscaping

Gold- Gentex Corporation, Spectrum Health, 1 Legacy Heating & Cooling

Silver- Terra Bagels, Nawara Brothers Home Store, KJA Painting Pros., Lewandoskis Market, Meijer, Veneklasen Construction

A huge THANK YOU to our sponsors. We were able to provide our walk attendees with bagel sticks, doughnuts, coffee and water and tons of treats for the trunk-or-treat.

We raised a lot of money…over $9000 with sponsors, registration, and outside donations! The work behind the scenes continues all the time. We continued to provide equestrian lessons to a few students. We are working on funding a wheelchair accessible swing at a local school and we are always accepting applications from families!

This event is near and dear to our hearts and we hope to continue every year. We took a pause on the walk in 2023, but we are coming back for 2024!

If you would like to sponsor our walk happening October 26, 2024, please see our sponsorship page. If you would like to donate to Caleb Smiles, please see our donation page!