Obliteride

Sending a HUGE thank you to our wonderful volunteers today and every day! Obliteride wouldn't be possible without you! Send a thank you to a volunteer in the comments below! ⬇️ 🧡

Fred Hutch is pleased to welcome Tracy Evans as the new senior executive director of Obliteride, our annual bike ride, walk/run and fundraiser. Tracy’s deep background in high-caliber peer-to-peer events, her proven leadership, her focus on community engagement and her outstanding enthusiasm are the perfect match for our signature summer fundraising event. “I am incredibly excited to join Fred Hutch as the senior executive director of Obliteride,” she said. “The opportunity to lead this vital effort for groundbreaking advances in research and care is both a great honor and a profound responsibility. I am eager to work alongside our passionate community to make a tangible difference in the lives of patients and their families, ensuring we move closer to a world without cancer." #obliteride #curecancerfaster

Fred Hutch is pleased to welcome Tracy Evans, MBA as the new senior executive director of Obliteride! Over the last two decades, Tracy has been immersed in national disease-focused fundraising, including with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and the Lupus Foundation of America. She also served as the ride director of AIDS/LifeCycle, which is the largest HIV/AIDS endurance fundraising event in the world. Most recently, she was the chief philanthropy officer for Horizons Foundation, which funds the LGBTQ+ nonprofit ecosystem of the San Francisco Bay area and beyond. In addition, Tracy is an avid cyclist. It is no surprise that she was a 50-mile finisher at this year’s Obliteride and can’t wait to join the Philanthropy team at Fred Hutch! “I am incredibly excited to join Fred Hutch as the senior executive director of Obliteride,” said Tracy. “The opportunity to lead this vital effort for groundbreaking advances in research and care is both a great honor and a profound responsibility. I am eager to work alongside our passionate community to make a tangible difference in the lives of patients and their families, ensuring we move closer to a world without cancer." Please join us in welcoming Tracy to Fred Hutch! We are thankful for this community of more than 6,200 participants, 21,000 donors, 800 volunteers, and our generous sponsors, who helped make this year’s Obliteride our most successful Obliteride yet!!

Find our reflection on this year’s Obliteride kick-off party up on our DSquared blog!⁠ 🚴🧡 https://lnkd.in/gKyg_a3u Supporting this event is undoubtedly one of the highlights of our year. We’re thrilled to see how our partnership with Obliteride and Fred Hutch has evolved over time—from our beginning years serving bikers at the end of their long rides on Saturday and Sunday, to now catering the Friday night opening party. It’s a joy to help kick off such an amazing weekend for a great cause, and it’s an honor to cater an event that contributes to cancer research.⁠ ⁠ #Obliteride2024 #Obliteride #FredHutch #CureCancerFasterer

Four National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer centers – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering – have joined forces and secured funding from AI technology leaders Amazon Web Services (AWS), Deloitte, Microsoft and NVIDIA, to create the Cancer AI Alliance (CAIA). The alliance will apply responsible #AI to the collective power of the participating cancer centers’ data to unlock insights while protecting data security, all to identify more ways to transform cancer research and care. “Collectively, the data held by the nation’s leading cancer centers has been an untapped source of new cancer discoveries that has been out of reach. This alliance helps solve the key technical challenges that will enable us to securely use both AI and massive computational power to find these breakthrough insights and save more lives,” said Thomas J. Lynch Jr., MD, Fred Hutch president and director.

Obliteriders, you have until tomorrow Monday 9/30 at 11:59 p.m. PDT to gather donations and earn incentive gifts! We thank you for all you've done this season and can't wait for another successful Obliteride next year so be sure to save the date for Saturday 8/9/2025!

Just TWO more days! ✌️ Fundraising is open until Monday, September 30, 2024. Support an individual or team, or give to Fred Hutch's greatest need today!

"What we do here … matters, the funds we raise matter. Fred Hutch counts on our flexible dollars to advance all the new and creative and bold ideas that no other funding supports." — Shannon Koller (left), 25-mile rider, participant speaker, and former Fred Hutch patient, with participant Smeeta Hirani (right). There's just ONE WEEK left until the fundraising deadline for Fred Hutch Obliteride 2024! Obliteriders are united to improve lives, so let's give it one more push!! You have until Monday, September 30, at 11:59 p.m. PDT to gather donations and earn incentive gifts!

Obliteriders! There's still time to fundraise and do even more for cancer research, care, and cures! Share your pictures, motivation, and mission with you community —and invite them to donate today! Fundraising continues through September 30!

Reliving all the Obliteride 2024 memories! It was an amazing weekend of joy and community as we joined to ride our bikes, walk, run and fundraise to help #CureCancerFaster. Every participant-raised dollar will help Fred Hutch advance prevention, detection, treatment and cures. And there's still time to donate! Fundraising closes on 9/30!