Team With A Vision
MABVI’s Team With A Vision is proud and honored to be a member of the 2025 Bank of America Boston Marathon® Official Charity for the 129th Boston Marathon® on April 21, 2025. Applications are now CLOSED for 2025 Team With A Vision charity runners. Thank you for your interest, and we encourage you to explore other charity teams which you can find here: 2025 Bank of America Boston Marathon® Official Charity Program
Click here to meet our 2025 Charity Team members and take a look at their fundraising campaigns!
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By joining Team With A Vision, you can be part of a deep history of running and inclusion. Team With A Vision has raised visibility and critical funds for the Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired for 30 years.
Our international team of blind and sighted runners race to raise awareness and spread the word that with the right support, anything is possible! Our teams’ efforts allow the Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired to deliver professional, peer, and volunteer support to over 1,200 individuals each year, giving them the support they need to live with dignity and independence. All funds raised support MABVI’s statewide vision rehabilitation services, including 34 low-vision support groups, Assistive Technology and Training Centers, and 400 volunteers matched 1:1 with blind individuals.
For more information, results, updates, and to share your Team With A Vision experience:
Become a Team With A Vision Sponsor!
Do you have or know of a business, organization, or foundation that may be interested in sponsoring TWAV? We’d love to have you! Sponsorships are a valuable part of our fundraising campaign for Team With A Vision, and we offer multiple promotional opportunities for each of our sponsoring partners. Learn more about becoming a sponsor and what sponsorship levels we have to offer in our 2025 TWAV Sponsorship Packet!
Want to talk more about becoming a sponsor? Email Laura Alpert to discuss sponsoring Team With A Vision 2025!
2025 Team With A Vision Media Coverage
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Aira Community Profile: Jared Broughton’s Boston Marathon Journey: Read the full story here.
- The Running Anthropologist: 2025 Boston Marathon with Dennis Lavoie. Read the full story here.
- Teamwork: Visually Impaired Athlete Lisa Thompson and Guide Runner Alexi Pappas at the 2025 Boston Marathon – Insights from Lisa Thompson, winner of the T13 division for visually impaired athletes at the 2025 Boston Marathon, and her guide runner, Olympian Alexi Pappas. Read the full story here
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- “The Boston Marathon” by Team With A Vision Guide Katie Light. Read the full post here
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Alexi Pappas guides visually-impaired runner to another Boston Marathon win: The Greek-American Olympian teamed up with para athlete Lisa Thompson for the fourth time in Boston. Read the full story here
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Photos: This visually impaired athlete just ran his 7th Boston Marathon: Ryan Davies finished the 26.2 mile trek in just over five hours. Read the full story here
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This visually impaired athlete is running for ‘people who were dealt a bad hand in life’: “Team with a Vision grants me the opportunity to hopefully inspire others despite circumstances.” Read the full story here
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He’s running his 36th marathon to support those with visual impairments: This will also be Tony Ong’s 19th Boston Marathon and third running for Team With A Vision. Read the full story here
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Aira‘s Access Matters Podcast, Season 2 Episode 8 – Team With A Vision: “Join us as we interview MABVI’s Team with a Vision as they prepare for the Boston Marathon. Learn about being a guide runner, listen to one woman’s story of her run and meet a couple that partnered for running, and for life.” Listen to the podcast here
- For her fifth Boston Marathon, she is supporting Team With A Vision: Rebecca Trachsel is running for Team With A Vision and will guide Jared Broughton, a low-vision runner from Canada. Read the full story here
- She’s running to support a cause that helps her aunt ‘maintain independence’: “My Aunt Irene Hill is legally blind, and over the past few years, I’ve watched her navigate the challenges of progressive vision loss,” Elizabeth Pollard wrote. Read the full story here
- He’s running Boston to honor the resilience of his legally blind grandparents: “They met at Perkins School for the Blind in 1934 and, despite their vision loss, raised five children, worked full-time jobs, and built a loving home where nothing was out of reach.” Read the full story here
- She’s running Boston to get her Six Star Medal: Running for Team With A Vision, Kati Fratesi is on her way to complete her last World Major Marathon. Read the full story here
2024 media coverage, 2023 media coverage, 2022 media coverage, 2021 media coverage, 2019 media coverage
Do you want more information about Team With A Vision? Contact us here.
About the Boston Marathon race course: 
The historic Boston Marathon course starts in picturesque Hopkinton and travels through eight towns and cities to the grand finale in Boston’s Copley Square.
TEAM WITH A VISION CHARITY RUNNERS RECEIVE
- Guaranteed in-person Boston Marathon race entry
- Personalized training program, including coaching by Furey 26.2
- Personalized fundraising page and staff support
- Events and receptions
- Race day amenities
- Branded team apparel, including team singlet
- Bragging rights that you have finished Boston while creating a better community for those living with vision loss and blindness.
Fees & Fundraising Requirements:
- $50 non-refundable application fee (This fee helps fund a scholarship that supports a blind athlete running Boston for the 1st time)
- $12,500 fundraising commitment
- The B.A.A. registration entry fee for the event is $375, to be paid by the runner
Team With A Vision 2025 Sponsors
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Services we provide
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Volunteer Help
We were founded by volunteers and today hundreds serve across the state. Volunteers can read mail, help with paperwork or grocery shopping, or be sighted guides for fitness and active living.
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Support Groups
The best support and advice is offered by people who really know what you’re going through – people who’ve had parallel experiences. Peers with shared experiences may even be able to anticipate your questions. While adjusting to vision loss, and even after you’ve grown accustomed to the change, a peer support group is a big help
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Access Tech
From magnification devices to smartphone apps, technology can play an enormous role in enhancing accessibility for someone who is blind or visually impaired. MABVI’s Assistive Technology Centers can help.
