{"id":123186,"date":"2026-01-14T19:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/123186\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:16:07","slug":"texas-ms-150-aims-to-raise-11-3-million-in-42nd-annual-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/123186\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas MS 150 aims to raise $11.3 million in 42nd annual ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNational MS Society<\/a> officials are hopeful the 42nd annual Texas MS 150<\/a> will generate about $11.3 million for multiple sclerosis initiatives, turning a weekend ride into the organization\u2019s largest fundraising effort of the year.<\/p>\n

The details<\/p>\n

Emily Garcia, the assistant vice president of Endurance Events for the National MS Society, told Community Impact the Texas MS 150\u2014which will run April 25-26\u2014is historically the top fundraising event for the National MS Society.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are 49 other bike events that are happening around the country, and ours is the largest by more than double,\u201d she said. \u201cThe wonderful thing about our event is that we engage communities all across Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n

National MS Society officials noted that the thousands of riders will fan out across five different start lines for the Texas MS 150, including those in:<\/p>\n

AustinBastropHoustonWaller CountyBellville\u201cAll of those folks will travel into La Grange on Saturday where we will host a giant party and overnight extravaganza,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cThen everyone will wake up on Sunday and ride their way into College Station where we finish on the Texas A&M University campus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zooming in<\/p>\n

The Texas MS 150\u2014which once generated about $20 million annually\u2014is steadily climbing back toward its prepandemic numbers, according to National MS Society officials.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic, along with some weather cancellations, really hit us as a charity pretty hard,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cWe were sitting at $6 million in postpandemic fundraising, so we have been able to add about $1 million a year. We really are on an upward swing, and have a 10-year goal of hitting $20 million by 2035.\u201d<\/p>\n

What we know<\/p>\n

The National MS Society is seeking the following ahead of the Texas MS 150:<\/p>\n

In-kind and monetary donations<\/a>Community partnershipsSponsorsApproximately 2,000 volunteers<\/a> across the entirety of the route\u201cThere\u2019s lots of ways to get engaged,\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n

The outlook<\/p>\n

MS, a chronic disease in which the immune system attacks the protective covering of nerves, can cause a wide range of symptoms\u2014from fatigue and numbness to vision problems and mobility challenges, according to the National MS Society.<\/p>\n

Although early diagnosis is critical, it has historically taken years for patients to receive a diagnosis.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are now sitting in a space where it takes maybe a few months or up to a year to get diagnosed,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cSo the real goal is that people can receive a diagnosis in just a few days as we continue to do more research.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National MS Society officials are hopeful the 42nd annual Texas MS 150 will generate about $11.3 million for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[53413,132,13491,53416,10732,53418,53417,56,53415,43638,53414,27,29,28,10013],"class_list":["post-123186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-53413","tag-austin","tag-bastrop","tag-bellville","tag-college-station","tag-emily-garcia","tag-endurance-events","tag-houston","tag-la-grance","tag-ms","tag-national-ms-society","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-waller-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}