Sometimes making a difference starts with a single step—or pedal stroke.
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Get the GuideBuildium employees, alongside their friends and family, teamed up on June 25th and 26th to complete Bike MS: Cape Cod Getaway.
The Cape Cod Getaway ride is the largest Bike MS fundraising event in New England. It’s also Buildium/RealPage’s biggest project to fight multiple sclerosis (MS) as part of their ongoing volunteer weeks and fundraisers.
According to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, which hosts the event each year, more than one million adults in the U.S. currently live with MS. That’s twice as many people previously estimated—and twice as many people that need not only a cure, but also treatment and support services.
For many of the riders, it’s a cause that hits home. “I was inspired by the help that we were trying to provide for all the people that are in a constant battle with multiple sclerosis,” said Davon Cannon, who participated in this year’s ride. “When I started asking for donations, a close cousin told me she had the disease. It motivated me even more to train and do what I can.”
This is the 11th year that the Powered by Buildium team joined the ride to raise money and awareness to fight MS.
Each year, Powered by Buildium has stepped up to meet the challenge, raising over $775,000 over the past decade.
Even as the pandemic left its mark last year, reducing the route to 75 miles over the course of one day, the Buildium community rallied and raised over $32,000.
This year, 28 riders—9 of whom were participating in the event for the first time—joined the team to brave the full two-day, 150-mile route from Quincy to Provincetown.
For team captain Herky Gottfried, an eight-time participant in Bike MS, this year was especially rewarding. “I was finally able to ride this year with my dad. He signed up to ride with me in 2020, and we rode 75 miles together in Idaho that year after the in-person ride was canceled due to COVID. But being able to ride to Cape Cod with him was pretty special.”