2024 Events

Our wonderful teams participating in the New York and Boston Cycle for Survival events had a blast and raised close to $5,000 for Brave Like Gabe. The events included an instructor-led cycling session, powerful stories from cancer survivors and caregivers, and research updates from doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering. One of our team members commented, "It was a privilege getting to ride for Brave Like Gabe and to share this experience with my friends. The speakers at the end who shared their journey with cancer and their two-year-old son, Joey, brought me to tears, and I’ve been a ball of emotions ever since."  We are so grateful for our community showing us that #runningonhope can look a lot like #ridingonhope!

The money raised by our Brave Like Gabe teams will directly support our multi-year grant happening at MSKCC. At Brave Like Gabe, we believe in the research and breakthroughs happening at MSKCC and we are grateful to help fund these efforts.

World Cancer Day Match

On February 4th, in celebration of the international day of awareness, there was a dollar-for-dollar World Cancer Day match. This match leverages the annual Brave Like Gabe contribution to Memorial Sloan Kettering and a generous donation by the Met Life Foundation to raise even more money for rare cancer research.

Our History with Cycle for Survival

In 2018, Gabe Grunewald attended her first Cycle for Survival event in New York City. Not only did she cycle on a team, but she also spoke at two indoor cycling events and shared her rare cancer story. She left those events feeling inspired, hopeful, and dedicated to return each year.

“YOU ARE MY PEOPLE! Raising millions of dollars for rare cancer research through a group fitness activity? Sign me up — I’ll be here with a Brave Like Gabe team every year from now on, you can 100% count on that.” - Gabe

Gabe’s enthusiasm paved the way to our annual participation in Cycle for Survival. Each spring, we offer Team Brave Like Gabe participation and fundraising in multiple locations around the country. We believe this event makes a huge difference as most rare cancers have zero FDA-approved treatments and little dedicated research funding.

Our participation in Cycle for Survival directly impacts our grant-making efforts. Gabe received personalized cancer treatments and participated in an immunotherapy clinical trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Additionally, MSKCC was one of the first research grantees of the Brave Like Gabe Foundation in 2019.

Presently, our commitment to fund rare cancer research has led to a multi-year grant of $600,000 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. This grant is funded in part by Cycle for Survival fundraising. The researchers, Dr. Carol Brown and Dr. Fiyinfolu Balogun with co-investigator Dr. Debyani Chakravarty are studying Endometrial Carcinoma in Black Women and Pancreas Cancer Genomics in Minorities.

FAQs

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