A Good Sport
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<p>A Good Sport is the creator of the only website that lets people find a run, walk, stair climb, marathon, half-marathon, or triathlon based on the type of charity they want to support.</p><p>A Good Sport's goal is</p><ul><li>to create a streamlined process to help athletes and volunteers find more meaningful events, and</li><li>to help charities find more participants so they can raise more money and awareness for their causes.</li></ul><p>Our website AGoodSport.net also provides detailed information about the charities associated with the Bank of America Chicago Marathon, including how many guaranteed entries each charity still has to offer -- more information than is available on the official Chicago Marathon charity page. </p><p>We are developing a suite of supplementary services for race directors and runners that will mutually benefit those parties as well as the official charities of each event. </p><p>AGoodSport has been a member of 1871 since 2012. In the fall of 2013 we were selected to participate as a subject business for an entrepreneurial marketing class at Quinlan School of Business: Loyola University Chicago. Four MBA candidates from Professor Ugur Uygur's class worked with AGoodSport to develop and begin implementing a marketing plan. </p><p>We have been profiled in DNAInfo, interviewed on WGN Radio and in RedEye Chicago, and mentioned in Crain's Chicago Business. </p><p> </p>