About the Pink Ribbon Riders Nonprofit Organization
We are a very small nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting those who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. Behind the scenes are just a few people that work closely with a team of volunteers in each state to help raise funds.
The funds that we raise in the each state through events stay in that state for patients there. The organization was started to help people directly to offset costs and burdens that happen during their battle. The giving program is called the Patient Assistance Program. It is an immediate care program that was created to help people during their "Current treatment". When the first struggles of additional financials arise with anything from gas costs to treatments or bills that become expensive from loss of work during chemo or radiation treatments.
The Pink Ribbon Riders, (PRR) provides financial assistance to both men and women diagnosed with breast cancer in gifts of $500.00. The gift is given in a gift card format. There is an application process that each patient must complete to be considered.
About us behind the scenes:
There are 2- 3 people behind the scenes helping to make 7 states of giving possible. We work 5 days to 7 days a week all year long between working on fundraisers and giving through the Pink Ribbon Riders patient assistance program. Our main office location is located in Michigan and we do not have offices in other states so that we can keep costs down and more funds going to the cause.
We raise funds through fundraising events that we hold and the generosity of donations from amazing people called donors that believe in what we are doing.
Pink Ribbon Riders is a registered and trademark named. Logos and event names found on this website are also trademarked and are not available for reproduction or use with out the permission from the organization.
History
Snowmobile friends Alia Brown and Jody McKay organized the 1st Tug Hill Snow Run in March of 2005. The ride was started in memory of friend Kelly Shires, who passed away very early in life from Breast Cancer. On a promise to Kelly in 2004 the girls would bring a ride like hers to the US like that she had started in Canada 7 years ago…
The mission of the ride in Canada is to provide support to women in need of financial assistance for treatments and more. So the same mission was brought the Snow Runs but has expanded to help men and women that are diagnosed.
Kelly’s battle did end in October of 2004, prior to the March 2005 ride… But the ride in her memory was a success, raising close to $2,500 and donated to the Roswell Cancer Institute of NY.
“We will ride every year to honor those that fight their battles everyday and to those that we will never forget, the true survivors like Kelly and so many others…”
“We both share struggles with Breast Cancer in our own families and this event helps us share with others, a way to help those in need. It’s a way of bringing people closer together on a community level, as many of us know, this is a disease that affects more than just the person with the diagnosis.”
“Without this event we would never have met some of the wonderful people we now know today.”
~Alia & Jody
