TheThinkTank May 2007

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17 discussions

Is there a collective in New Orleans?
by Jonathan Morrison 06 Dec '12

06 Dec '12

Email me if you know of one. -- Sincerely, Jonathan Morrison Project Coordinator Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective 2312 S. West Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84115 w: 801-328-2453 c: 801-688-0183 f: 801-466-3856 www.slcbikecollective.org

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getting and holding onto volunteers?
by rachael spiewak 24 Jul '07

24 Jul '07

hiya, folks. something sopo's always struggled with is finding volunteers and convincing them to stay. many people who visit our shop would rather have a hands on demonstration than look up how to do repairs in our manuals. we tried having a few bike maintenance 101 classes to get people feeling like they have the capacity to help others with basic repairs, but that didn't stick. does anyone have ideas or experience in this department? or is it sufficient for us to tell people that reading about repairs in our manuals is part of their process at our shop? i tend to doubt the success rate of the last one. i'm thinking food incentives might be a good idea. love/peace/bicyclegrease, rachael

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Getting 501(c)3 Status
by Jay Varner 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

We at the Sopo Bike Co-op in Atlanta really enjoy and cherish our status as a 501(c)3. We have made our application available for others to use as an example. You can find it on the Bikecollectives' Wiki: http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=IRS_Form_1023

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Miami Bike Cooperative
by CAT Director 21 May '07

21 May '07

Is there a bike cooperative in Miami? -- Steve Schmitt CAT Director director(a)car-free.org 60 West Broad Street #97 Bethlehem, PA 18018 610 954 5744 http://www.car-free.org

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Great Job! (Re: 3rd Ward on Now)
by Eric Estlund 18 May '07

18 May '07

Great little clip on the #rd Ward Bike Shop in TX on PBS, mostly highlighting the Earn-A-Bike. Good job getting the message out! Eric SLC Bike Collective

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Re: [TheThinkTank] We need your addresses for Bike Bike
by davebauer＠mfire.com 18 May '07

18 May '07

Recycle Bicycles 7196 S. Poplar St. Centennial, CO 80112 Thanks! > Hello Bike Bikers!! > > Pure excitement is coming your way!!!! The bee-yoo-tiful > posters that we have printed for the Bike! Bike! > conference are hot off the silkscreening press and ready > to enter your mailbox (along with other information). > And we ain't talking about your virtual mailbox, we're > talking about that one with the little red flag, that a > real person delivers mail too. Therefore we need your > shop's address. If it is in the BOOP directory, we > already have it. However, if you have moved or or not > listed in the directory please e-mail it to us ASAP. > Please send all addresses to freeride(a)bike-pgh.org. Sorry > to individuals on the list, but we only have the > resources to send the posters to shops or bike > organizations that can publicly display the poster. > > The poster package will also include registration forms > and a workshop proposal form. These can also be found > online at bikebike.org. > > As for folks who may want one of the posters for > themselves, you're going to have to wait for the > conference when we'll have more available. > > Our Hills Await your Wheels, > Free Ride! Bike Coop > > > _______________________________________________ > thethinktank mailing list > thethinktank(a)lists.bikecollectives.org > http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.…

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Interbike Registration now open
by Jonathan Morrison 17 May '07

17 May '07

All, It is free if you register before the deadline, $25 per person afterwards. http://www.interbike.com -- Sincerely, Jonathan Morrison Project Coordinator Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective 2312 S. West Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84115 w: 801-328-2453 c: 801-688-0183 f: 801-466-3856 www.slcbikecollective.org

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volunteer solutions compiled and posted online
by rachael spiewak 16 May '07

16 May '07

I put everyone's suggestions on the bike collective wiki here<http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Volunteers> . feel free to edit the content and formatting! anecdotal info would be a good addition, too! enjoy! rachael

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Re: [TheThinkTank] [community-bike] getting and holding onto volunteers?
by rachael spiewak 16 May '07

16 May '07

our bicycle blender was completed tonight, which led to improved volunteer morale. i think it had something to do with the rum.. love, rachael

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getting stuff (volunteers and bikes)
by depot 15 May '07

15 May '07

for volunteers, i cheat - we get kids from highschool work-experience programs all through the school year, and full time volunteers for 3 months at a time from katimavik, a canada-wide youth volunteer program (the bike dump could probably get on this). with so many young, energetic bodies in the workshop, community volunteers come in and are blown away by how much is going on. they like the social aspect of it (jonathan was right on), enjoy being in the shop and come back. we invite them to parties, drag them out to critical mass, encourage them to bring in music, etc. as for stuff, after running around after donations for years we're stacked to the tits and having to turn people away. after a while, enough people know about what you're doing and want to support it that storage space and processing becomes a bigger problem than sourcing donations. but in the interim, churches and schools (bike drives), universities (end of year student clear out), large appartment buildings (they clean out their bike rooms once every couple of years), bike shops, community groups (the knights of columbus helped organize a bike drive for us last year and we got 450 bikes in one day), are all good sources for donated bikes. hope that helps, omar bhimji project manager pedal bike depot p. 604.708.4992

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