RACE OF HOPE IN PALM BEACH

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Hope for Depression Research Foundation

Audrey Gruss’s Hope for Depression Research Foundation held its Fifth Annual 5k Race of Hope in Palm Beach. The event gathered nearly 1,000 men, women, children, and dogs at Bradley Park to support mental health awareness and research into depression and anxiety. Gruss, who founded HDRF in 2006, said, “Two in five adults in America have reported symptoms of anxiety and depression, and we are working tirelessly to find new and better treatments.” The organization’s Executive Director Louisa Benton and Scott Snyder served as the race’s Grand Marshalls. Runners included Jamee and Peter Gregory, Sharon Bush, and Bob Murray. Local businesses, including Akris, J.P. Morgan, Le Bilboquet, Tenenbaum and Sullivan, and Yafa Signed Jewels sponsored the day. The highspirited race raised a record-breaking $550,000 for advanced life-saving mental health research into new treatments for clinical depression. hopefordepression.org