The American Marketing Association will hold a walk-a-thon today to raise money for the Starlight Foundation in the King Memorial Commons at 3 p.m.

The Starlight Foundation is a service organization whose purpose is to grant the wishes of “critically, chronically and terminally ill children,” said Donna Naunapper, the group’s student fund campaign president.

The Starlight Foundation grants wishes for children, including arranging meetings with celebrities, flying in relatives to visit, sending them to places to visit and helping them experience life-long dreams like driving race cars and owning computers, said Naunapper.

The money the AMA raises from the walk-a-thon for the Starlight Foundation will be pooled together with money raised by other AMA groups from other campuses, said Naunapper.

All the money collected from the different chapters then will be presented in check form to the Starlight Foundation at the AMA’s Midwestern Regional Conference. The conference will be held Nov. 17-19 at NIU.

The walk-a-thon is how the NIU AMA chapter has decided to raise money for the Starlight Foundation. Other chapters have come up with alternative fundraising methods, said Naunapper.