I fight to raise money for a foundation that is near and dear to my heart. My cousin, Gabby Krause, was an amazing six-year old who died in September 2004 after a courageous 19-month battle with brain cancer.

Bags of Fun was created in memory of Gabby with the mission "To deliver a Bag of Fun to every child fighting a long-term or life-threatening condition".

Bags of Fun is independent of the hospitals and each Bag of Fun is funded by the Gabby Krause Foundation. Our organization is distinctive in that it focuses on unique play as a means of recovery for kids in the fight of their lives. This is a theme that we truly work and live by. All of our events focus on play…play for the family, play for kids that aren’t able to play, play for the adults. Through Gabby’s legacy of playing through her fight, we have created a program that every donor can connect to and at the same time, we connect to every donor. As Plato taught us, “You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”