In 2025, Faith Connections will field its 12th NAMIWalks team! 
The 2024 team was the #1 Fundraiser​

2024: Faith Connections on Mental Illness (FCMI) was the first-place fundraising team out of 120 total teams in NAMIWalks NC 2024, held May 18, 2024. FCMI is a Chapel Hill-based interfaith non-profit dedicated to supporting the efforts of faith communities as they help battle the stigma and isolation the mental illness too often engenders. Twenty-two registered FCMI walkers collected $13,499. FCMI’s top individual fundraiser – Geetha Balagopal – was also the event’s top fundraiser out of 1030 participants, receiving $8070 in donations. NAMIWalks North Carolina raised $135,501 as part of the nation's largest mental health awareness and fundraising event. We THANK all walkers and supporters!! #Together4MH
Save the date: NAMIWalks NC ​will be held on Saturday, May 17, 2025      #Together4MH
FREE to Walk - Any $ donation welcome!!
Perimeter Park
3015 Carrington Mill Blvd, Morrisville, NC
​9 am - ​11:30 am
2 routes:
1 mile and 2 miles
​Walk & Fun Activities
Stroller, Wheelchair,
& Scooter Accessible.
​Leashed dogs welcome!
  • Sign up as a team member. It is FREE!  Even if you can't physically walk with us, join the team for moral support.
  • Any donation - no matter how small - is welcome. 
What's it all about? Check out our 2024 flier (see button to the left). New info will be posted in early 2025.
Our dynamo fundraiser, Geetha Balagopal, was featured in a podcast. Here what she said about why NAMIWalks is so important. https://myndstories.com/allpodcast/the-incredible-resilience-of-life-with-geetha-balagopal/

In 2025, Faith Connections will field its 12th NAMIWalks team! 

On May 17, 2025, join with hundreds of individuals and teams from across the state to raise awareness of mental health challenges and issues while raising funds for NAMI North Carolia and local affiliates. 

By supporting NAMI and its free programs, we can open doors, providing access to individuals from every walk of life to the mental health resources and community support they deserve.

FCMI fields an interfaith team for individuals who do not have a faith community or whose faith community is not participating.

For more information, contact Kim Batson at
​[email protected] or 919-265-9820.

Info on signing up will be posted
when registration opens in early 2025
FCMI teams have been enthusiastically walking and fundraising for NAMIWalks since 2014. Averaging over $10,341 each year for each of the past five years. We were the top fundraising team in 2022, 2021 and 2020, and the 2nd place team in 2019 and 2018.    
                            NAMIWalks NC 2024 At-A-Glance
  • Saturday, May 18, 2024 
  • Individuals, congregations, businesses, non-profits, groups: all are invited to join us. ​
  • NAMIWalks raises awareness and funds for mental illness.
  • Everyone is invited to walk with the Faith Connections on Mental Illness team.
  • If your faith community does not have a team, or if you don’t have a faith community – we want you to join us!
  • There is no charge to participate.
  • Click (here when registration goes live) to support an individual
    (scroll down to Roster)
  • Click (here when registration goes live) to sign up as a walker on the FCMI team. Click TEAM MEMBER even if you cannot join us in person on Walk Day and will walk individually or in spirit.  
  • ​Need help signing up or just want more information: contact Kim Batson (Team Captain) at: [email protected] or 919-265-9820.​.
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BULLETIN BLURB (please copy, personalize, and post in your own bulletin, newsletter, etc.)

To raise awareness and funds for mental illness, NAMIWalks will be held on Saturday, May 17, 2025 at Perimeter Park in Morrisville, NC.  Faith Connections on Mental Illness invites all individuals, congregations, organizations to join our team. There is no cost to participate. Individuals who raise $100 in contributions will receive a free NAMIWalks T-shirt from event organizers. Even if you can’t walk, donations are gratefully accepted. To learn more, contact Kim Batson at [email protected]; 919-265-9820. To register or donate, go to this link or click the QR Code:
www.namiwalks.org/team/FCMI
2024: Faith Connections on Mental Illness (FCMI) was the first-place fundraising team out of 120 total teams in NAMIWalks NC 2024, held May 18, 2024. FCMI is a Chapel Hill-based interfaith non-profit dedicated to supporting the efforts of faith communities as they help battle the stigma and isolation the mental illness too often engenders. Twenty-two registered FCMI walkers collected $13,499. FCMI’s top individual fundraiser – Geetha Balagopal – was also the event’s top fundraiser out of over 1000 participants, receiving $8070 in donations. NAMIWalks North Carolina raised $135,501 as part of the nation's largest mental health awareness and fundraising event. 
We THANK all walkers and supporters!! #Together4MH
In 2024, FCMI's team collected $13,499.
​FCMI’s top individual fundraiser – Geetha Balagopal – was also NAMIWalks' top fundraiser out of over 1000 participants, receiving $8070in donations. 

Every journey begins with that first step.

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Every year, thousands of concerned citizens in nearly 80 communities across the nation will walk together to raise money and awareness about our country's need for a world-class treatment and recovery system for people with mental illness. Over 1100 people joined the North Carolina NAMIWalks in 2019, including many members of Faith Connections on Mental Illness representing their own organization or faith community. We invite all to join us!

  • Click here to learn more about NAMI, a state-wide, nation-wide, and world-wide organization for change.​
  • Click here for information about NAMI North Carolina.
Join us today!
NAMI depends on generous volunteers to raise funds and awareness at each of our Walk sites.