More than 600 Upstate employees, friends and family participated in the Heart Walk in March, and raised $36,000 to benefit the American Heart Association's fight against heart disease and stroke.

120 members of Team Upstate raised $12,862 for the American Cancer Society at the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk in October.

More than 260 Upstate students and employees participated in the inaugural 'A Run For Their Life' in October to benefit the Carol M. Baldwin Research Fund of CNY and support grants awarded to Upstate Medical University research for breast cancer.

Upstate students and employees participated in the Step Out Walk to Cure Diabetes in October, and raised $6,522 for the American Diabetes Association.

Upstate students and employees participated in the March for Babies in October, and raised $7,671 for the March of Dimes.

The CNY Bariatric Surgery Center at Upstate sponsored the second annual Walk From Obesity to raise awareness of the disease of obesity, childhood obesity and morbid obesity. 40 participants raised $2,500.

Upstate health care professionals organize and volunteer at the annual National Cancer Survivors Day event in June.

Upstate employees volunteered at the 12th and final Pat's Pavement Pounder in September, which raised over $13,000 for pediatric cancer care and the new Upstate Cancer Center.

Department representatives and managers attended the Community Giving Campaign Kickoff and training in September. With the help of more than 180 dept reps, Upstate hopes to increase participation to 2,000 and raise $650,000 for our community.

Upstate held its 3rd annual Project Search graduation ceremony in June recognizing nine Syracuse high school students with disabilities who completed a year-long educational/job training program at Upstate.