{"entity":{"id":"brave-like-gabe","kind":"institution","name":"Brave Like Gabe Foundation","aka":["Brave Like Gabe"],"tldr":"A US foundation set up by the runner Gabe Grunewald, who had adenoid cystic carcinoma, that funds rare cancer research and runs free exercise programmes for cancer survivors.","summary":"The Brave Like Gabe Foundation was founded by Gabriele \"Gabe\" Grunewald, a professional runner who had a rare salivary gland cancer, to support rare cancer research and to help cancer survivors through physical activity, according to its mission page; she died in June 2019. Its impact page lists the grants it has made: more than $450,000 to the Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Research Foundation since 2018 from its annual 5K, $500,000 with Brooks Running for the Brave Fellowship for post-doctoral researchers at Fred Hutch (2020 to 2023) and a 2024 grant to Fred Hutch's TRACER rare cancer initiative, a three-year $600,000 grant from 2022 to Memorial Sloan Kettering on outcome disparities for Black women with endometrial cancers, a three-year $300,000 grant from 2023 to the University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center for paediatric osteosarcoma, and a grant to Dana-Farber for a study of implantable microdevices that test drug responses in adenoid cystic carcinoma tumours. It also runs a free 12-week walk-run training programme for cancer survivors in Minneapolis. The IRS lists it in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with tax exemption from March 2019.","asOf":"2026-11-05","links":[{"label":"Brave Like Gabe: mission","url":"https://www.bravelikegabe.org/mission"},{"label":"Brave Like Gabe: impact and grants","url":"https://www.bravelikegabe.org/impact"},{"label":"Cancer Survivor Movement Program","url":"https://www.bravelikegabe.org/cancer-survivor-movement-program"},{"label":"IRS record (via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/825528605"}],"tags":[],"related":["rare-cancer-research-foundation","accrf"],"cancers":["adenoid-cystic-carcinoma","salivary-gland","osteosarcoma","endometrial"],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["fred-hutch","mskcc","minnesota-masonic","dana-farber"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Saint Paul, MN","country":"US","lat":44.954,"lng":-93.09,"institutionType":"consortium","website":"https://www.bravelikegabe.org","programs":["Multi-year rare cancer research grants","Brave Fellowship at Fred Hutch (with Brooks Running)","Cancer Survivor Movement Program (12-week walk-run training)","Annual Brave Like Gabe 5K"]},"route":"/institutions/brave-like-gabe/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"accrf","kind":"institution","name":"Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Research Foundation","route":"/institutions/accrf/"},{"id":"dana-farber","kind":"institution","name":"Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center","route":"/institutions/dana-farber/"},{"id":"fred-hutch","kind":"institution","name":"Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center","route":"/institutions/fred-hutch/"},{"id":"minnesota-masonic","kind":"institution","name":"Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota","route":"/institutions/minnesota-masonic/"},{"id":"mskcc","kind":"institution","name":"Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center","route":"/institutions/mskcc/"},{"id":"rare-cancer-research-foundation","kind":"institution","name":"Rare Cancer Research Foundation","route":"/institutions/rare-cancer-research-foundation/"}],"cancer":[{"id":"adenoid-cystic-carcinoma","kind":"cancer","name":"Adenoid cystic carcinoma","route":"/cancers/adenoid-cystic-carcinoma/"},{"id":"endometrial","kind":"cancer","name":"Endometrial cancer","route":"/cancers/endometrial/"},{"id":"osteosarcoma","kind":"cancer","name":"Osteosarcoma","route":"/cancers/osteosarcoma/"},{"id":"salivary-gland","kind":"cancer","name":"Salivary gland cancers","route":"/cancers/salivary-gland/"}]}}