{"id":399467,"date":"2026-09-14T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/399467\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:00:09","slug":"one-step-at-a-time-miami-joy-projects-superhero-5k-raises-over-30k-for-kids-with-special-needs-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/399467\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018One step at a time\u2019: Miami Joy Project\u2019s Superhero 5K raises over $30K for kids with special needs &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; The Miami Joy Project hosted its first Superhero Miles 5K at Tropical Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hundreds of people across all fitness levels on Sunday collected superhero capes, masks and gloves at themed checkpoints during the race, crossing the finish line to raise funds for children with severe illnesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe realize that a lot of kids in this population, they don\u2019t have the resources to do the special things in life sometimes. It could be as simple as a birthday party,\u201d said Kelly Vedrani, founder of the Miami Joy Project. \u201cWe saw that in the community, and we decided that we could get our larger community together to come out and create these celebrations for our kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was inspired by my brother, Miles, who has epilepsy and developmental disabilities, and we\u2019re here running this for a good cause,\u201d said Max Vedrani, co-founder of the Miami Joy Project. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/miamijoyproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The nonprofit<\/a> funds birthday and holiday celebrations. Sunday\u2019s event raised more than $30,000.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; The Miami Joy Project hosted its first Superhero Miles 5K at Tropical Park.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-399467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}