Neighborhood Co-op Feed Your Neighbor 5K

🏃‍♀️ Race Overview

The Co-op Feed Your Neighbor 5K is a family-friendly event supporting the Good Samaritan House of Carbondale. The race will be held Friday, April 10, 2026.

📍 Course Details

Our 5K course is professionally certified: the course begins and ends at Turley Park on Old West Main and Glenview, Carbondale, IL. The route runs through the residential area behind the Murdale Shopping Center.

• Location: Starts and ends at Turley Park, on Old West Main and Glenview.
• Timing: This race is professionally timed.
• Participation: Participants can run or walk.
• Registration: 4:30 pm registration opens for pre-registered and day of sign-ups. Race promptly starts at 6 pm.

🎉 Registration Fees

• Cost: Only $20 for adults and $10 for children 14 and under ($25 &: $15 if you sign-up the day of the race.)
• Family Friendly: This event is truly for everyone.
• Prizes: Prizes for top female and male runners.
• Snacks: Snacks and refreshments for participants.

🛍️ Donations

Additionally, we are asking participants to bring nonperishable food to give to the local food pantry.

🏅 Prizes

Top overall female and male will win a $100 Co-op gift card! Top male and female of each age category will be a bread winner! Yes you will literally win a loaf of bread. It's just a fun way to reward our runners! Additionally, every participant will be entered for door prizes.

💖 Good Samaritan House

Good Samaritan House of Carbondale serves a wide variety of people, including persons with mental and physical disabilities, families evicted from their homes, veterans with nowhere to go, and persons who have lost their jobs. They have an Emergency Assistance Program to assist clients in paying rent or utility bills to prevent them from becoming homeless. Good Samaritan House also assists in paying for prescriptions, work shoes/clothes, transportation to interviews, doctor appointments and more.

🎯 Support the Cause

Not a runner? Alternatively, you can help and not have to participate in the race. This year our goal is to have 200 people donate $10 each! Donations go directly to Good Samaritan and can be done online, see below.

🍽️ Services Provided

All proceeds will support Good Samaritan House of Carbondale, which provides a food pantry, soup kitchen, emergency shelter, transitional housing, and emergency assistance to the area’s most vulnerable citizens. All donations stay local! Good Samaritan provides:

• Emergency Services: Emergency Shelter or Transportation Services.
• Food Services: Food Pantry to offer food and commodities.
• Meal Services: Soup Kitchen to provide balanced meals 3 times a day.
• Transitional Support: Transitional Home for those who need help making a smooth transition to living an independent life again.

For more information, visit the race page at Neighborhood Co-op Feed Your Neighbor 5K.