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Special Thanks to Our Sponsors

2008 Corporate Sponsors

2008 Picnic Sponsors

New Jersey Hospital Association

New Jersey Mentor

2008 Patron Sponsors

Bancroft NeuroHealth
Beechwood Rehabilitation Services

Special thanks to Rehabilitation Specialists for being the Site Coordinator of the Northern New Jersey event site.

Locations

Washington Crossing State Park
Sullivan Grove
355 Washington Crossing-Penn Road
Titusville, NJ 08560

Saddle River County Park
Dunkerhook Area
Paramus Road
Paramus, NJ

2008 In-kind Donations

Through the generosity of local businesses, we are able to thank our walkers and cyclists. In-kind donations of water, breakfast and lunch items, snacks, and hot beverages help us nourish and hydrate our deserving participants.  Along with prizes for our highest fundraisers, these are just some of the things that can be donated each year.  If you or your business are interested in making an in-kind donation to Walk For Thought / Cycle For Safety, please contact Senior Director of Development, Jill Schulman at jschulman@bianj.org or 732-745-0200.

Event Background

Walk For Thought / Cycle For Safety is a prevention, awareness, and fundraising event, which brings together people who share a common interest in the cause of brain injury.  Our walk and cycle is an opportunity to raise public awareness, to celebrate the achievements of people living with brain injury, and to honor those who have sustained brain injuries and cannot walk with us.

Cycle For Safety began in 2003 with 23 determined cyclists.  Among them, Billy Snook, then 25 years old, of Vineland, for whom the ride represented a major rehabilitative achievement.  Billy, once a nationally ranked off-road motorcycle racer, cycled 15 miles that day on an adult tricycle given to him by his father, and he returns to peddle for the cause every year.  In 2004, the event became a walk and a cycle—Walk For Thought / Cycle For Safety—and participation quadrupled.  We expanded the event to more than one location in 2006.  It just keeps growing and growing.  Nowadays, Billy is joined by more than one hundred other New Jerseyans each October who walk, ride and raise awareness for the programs of the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey and for brain injury prevention.