Michael Klonsky in swim cap and goggles, training for his fourteen-mile open-water swim
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Mike's 14-Mile Swim: Feed Boston, Free Kids from the Screen

Raised
$2,600
Goal
$50,000

Michael Klonsky is 63. On September 4, 2026, he swims fourteen miles of open ocean, Nantasket to Marblehead. No lanes. No walls. No shortcuts.

He has been swimming for sixty years. This one counts double. Every stroke is split evenly between two missions.

The Greater Boston Food Bank turns your dollars into meals on real tables across Eastern Massachusetts. Every mile feeds someone.

strongerKIDS is the antidote to the screen. One real activity a week that gets kids off the couch and back into the world. You can't bring a phone in the water.

The swim, by the numbers:

  • 14 miles, point to point, miles offshore in open ocean.
  • 500 training miles over seven months of buildup.
  • 50,000 yards a week at peak. Whales breach around him. Sharks live there too. He keeps swimming.

The goal is $50,000, split 50/50 between food on Boston tables and kids back in the real world.

He does the miles. You do the rest. Give once, pledge per mile, or start a matching challenge that doubles everyone else's. Sixty seconds, and it all runs through Every.org.

Be the reason he gets in the water.

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  • Meredith and Benjamin Adner

    Mike Klonsky is a Beast! Go get it Mike!

  • CHRIS SMITH1
  • Deanna Atwood1
  • stacy cohen1
Raised
$2,600
Goal
$50,000
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