The History

The Cinco de Mayo Trail Run was launched by the Valley Elementary Educational Foundation in 2007 to raise money for Valley Elementary School in Poway. Each year the event has grown, and, in 2010, the race became a fundraising opportunity for several schools in the Poway area. It's still run by Valley's Foundation, but the Cinco de Mayo Trail Run is no longer just about one school, it's now about enhancing educational opportunities for thousands of children across the community and it draws more than 1,000 runners throughout San Diego County and Southern California.

The Impact

The Cinco de Mayo Trail Run benefits thousands of children at several schools throughout the Poway area. Each school uses the proceeds in different ways to enrich the programs and inititatives that are important to their students and teachers.

At Valley, this year's goal is to raise money to renovate Valley's existing computer lab, outfit each classroom with computers, build mobile computer labs for each grade level and purchase the language arts component of a Web-based curriculum called CompassLearning Odyssey®.