Pink Gravel Fund

Goal: $10,000.00

Mission

The Pink Gravel Fund promotes breast cancer awareness among the active through supporting, riding and positive vibing.  

Profile

"In the beginning, Pink Gravel was Amy's way to stay involved with the gravel family during chemo and radiation itreatments for breast cancer in the spring of 2020.  Pink Gravel had only been an idea in Amy's brain up until the fall of 2020 when friends from Marysville put Pink Gravel front and center on their gravel dash volunteer shirts.  Over the next couple of years,  Jon and Amy decided they wanted to use Pink Gravel to help other people that have been sidelined by breast cancer as Amy had been.  

The Pink Gravel Crew attended several gravel and community events promoting breast cancer awareness, the Pink Gravel Fund and the work we are doing.  Contributions received for their help at events from the sale of Pink Gravel t-shirts became the seed money used to open the Pink Gravel Fund with the Emporia Community Foundation in October of 2021.  In October of 2023, the grant became available to qualified applicants."

It was my (Amy's) personal experience with breast cancer and love for gravel cycling that this Pink Gravel machine was born. 

Since October 2021, Jon and I have traveled to several gravel events and expos in Nebraska, Oklahoma, Missouri, and of course, Kansas.  We have met many cancer survivors of all types who have shared their stories with us.  

The Pink Gravel Fund gave out it's first grants last year.  It has been a slow go as several people in the midst of their own battles will tell us that "there is someone that needs it more."  The thing is, the Pink Gravel Fund Grants are for those diagnosed with breast cancer.  Period.  No one is being compared to a scale of who needs it more.  The fact is it is not something anyone wants to face, so let the Pink Gravel Fund give you or your family a little bit of positve.

This year with the help of Emporia Community Foundation, we just set up a partnership with the Morris County Hospital (MCH) and Clinics to use the Pink Gravel Fund grants to cover the cost of provider referred mammograms to uninsured or underinsured individuals.  While the state of Kansas does offer assistance for this via Early Detection Works (EDW), the EDW program is limited to those that fit within a specific age range and income level.  The Pink Gravel Fund will assist in those situations as they arise.

The Pink Gravel Fund is also immediately assisting with the purchase of items for the MCH care packages and a small inventory of scarves/chemo turbans to be given to those dealing with the side effects of breast cancer treatment.  This is something we hope to discuss in other counties to see if they have a similar care package program we can assist with.

Jon and myself (Amy) hope you consider giving to the Pink Gravel Fund this year as well as any of the other well deserving organizations participating this year.  We are appreciative of every dollar given and all those who support us daily by sharing Pink Gravel with others, liking our posts, and wearing our shirts and jerseys.  Thanks for all you do to put us in front of others.

Your donations this year will be earmarked as funds used for future care package purchases and noninsured, provider referred mammograms.

Pink Gravel wants to thank the Emporia Community Foundation Board, the Matching Donors, ECF Staff and all those that give their time and dollars to make Emporia Match Days 2026 happen.