The 2nd annual Greatest 5K Ever benefitting the Help Fight Scleroderma Foundation was a tremendous success due to the overwhelming support of the Grubb & Ellis|Paramount Commerce family in the form of contributions and participation.  Ten members of the Grubb & Ellis|Paramount Commerce family joined together on the brisk morning of October 4th to participate in a charitable run.  Looking like a true team in our stylish wick-dry company logoed shirts, we took to the sea of over 350 participants and began to run.  The sun was shining and the band was playing as we crossed the finish line.  We enjoyed the music, food, and camaraderie and truly made a difference in the fight against this terrible disease.

Scleroderma is a chronic, autoimmune connective tissue disease.  The word scleroderma literally means "hard skin".  Common symptoms include thickening and hardening of the skin, joint stiffness, and pain and sensitivity to cold in the extremities.  Symptoms can also include damage to internal organs making scleroderma a potentially fatal condition.  Characteristics of the disease include an over-production of collagen and damage to blood vessels.  Approximately 300,000 people in the United States suffer from scleroderma.  Scleroderma primarily affects women between the ages of 25 and 55.  There is currently no known cause or cure, but every dollar we raise and the more aware people become, the closer we get to finding a cure.

For more information and to find out how you can help, please visit www.scleroderma.org