Talks from The Night of Champions, 2025

rachelmuha
Feb 16, 2022
2 min read

Updated: Oct 1

Talks from The Night of Champions, 2025

Hi Friends,

I am writing this on Saturday evening, one week after we were together at our Night of Champions. It was so great! Thank you again for all you do, for how much you care and for always supporting our Run The Racers.

Several people have asked for copies of the talks given last Saturday. Below is a link to Keara's talk - thank you, Keara - and one to mine. But Rick Ganim's and Chris Muha's are outlined below.

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Rick thanked the wonderful committee and joked that since he is the only man on the committee his contribution has been consistent: he says hello and then an hour or two later he says good-bye. Then Rick told us how lean the Brian Muha Foundation is run. He had some statistics:

1. Advertising: the average non-profit uses about 3.5% of their income but our Brian Muha Foundation spends about 1%. Still, new volunteers and sponsors come up every year.

2. Rick said the average non-profit spends about 62% of its income on their goals; but the Brian Muha Foundation spends 87% on its goal of helping children.

3. Rick said the Red Cross, as an example, spends 52% of its income on salaries; the March of Dimes spends 47%. But the Brian Muha Foundation spends about 17% on salaries.

4. Rick said the biggest salary, that of the CEO/Director, is on the average $120,000/year. But our CEO, our Director, takes a $0 salary. It has always been that way. So more money donated or raised goes to the children's needs.

Thank you, Rick.

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Chris Muha also expressed his gratitude to everyone for coming to Night of Champions. Chris said that with the death of Charlie Kirk and others who die terrible deaths, he always thinks of his brother Brian and how he must have felt being surrounded by hate instead of love in his last minutes on earth.

Chris said that meeting hate with love is hard but is the only way to live. He said he sees the hate in our country and knows it can't do any good.

He said he is grateful for the example his mother set for everyone 26 years ago when she showed us how to love our enemy.

Chris said that loving your enemy can't be done from afar, we have to go to them, meet them, dispel any misconceptions we might have and get to know them, know their situations, see them face to face.

Chris said that loving your enemy is possible when you reach out to them. Get to know them. He said that's what Run The Race does. He said Mom went out to meet and help. And we should all do the same. Do as much as we can.

Thank you, Chris.

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Keara's Talk

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w_Cu-kbX7HmsNzAiF1lrW2zEsUiwvfm7-wd-WmYHIgk/edit?usp=sharing

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Rachel's Talk

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FTRbGzkPbo-nK0pzIMFSHPWsHTFIJ3-MJPepodusPYo/edit?usp=sharing