We charge about $100 per youth (the kids don't pay this, the organization that we are providing programming for pays it) This includes the bike, a helmet, a lock, and 12-16 hours of instruction.
Actually it is more like $500 for up to 5 kids and $1000 for up to 10 kids, since we have a paid instructor to youth ratio of 1-5. So if we have near 10 kids we will have 2 instructors and supplement with volunteers.
We don't use contracts, we just invoice the organization when we set our dates. This has not been a problem yet, although figuring out whether we have received payments or not has been tricky for us at times.
...Ok, so that is what we ask for, but we have a sliding scale built into it so that if we do enough of then at full price we can afford to do 25% of them for free for orgs that can't afford it. So it doesn't hurt to charge a little extra from orgs that have a bit of money...
Hope that is helpful,
Scott
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:11 PM, adam schwartz
<rideyourbicycle@gmail.com> wrote:
We currently provide all of our programs for free. However we are considering charging a nominal fee for our Earn-A-Bike class and our summer camp. The main reason being that research has shown that people are more likely to show up and consistently attend if they have paid money for something. We think we can do a better job at retention by charging a small fee, and then use that money to purchase helmets to give away to the kids. Previously we have operated our youth programs from small grants, but we just hired three youth interns with the aim of increasing revenue from bike sales.
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Adam Schwartz
Renaissance Youth Bike Shop
The Engaged University
6200 Sheridan St, Riverdale, MD
rideyourbicycle@gmail.com
301-405-3213
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