We have worked with a number of area churches both as collection points and distribution agencies. They have been very receptive to our efforts. Of course the key is finding the right person within the church to make it happen. It  may be somewhat easier for us because we give away all our bikes. 
Other sources of bikes include; charities that receive bike donations but don't have the staff to repair them. We pick up their bikes and return half of them repaired. The other half we repair and distribute.  
Police departments. We pick up unclaimed bikes from their property room, repair them and then offer them thru programs the police run. 
Scrap yards. We have one yard  that gives us 30 to 40 bikes a month. Most are repairable, some go right back to scrap

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On Jan 29, 2013, at 8:28 AM, Rich Points <director@communitycycles.org> wrote:

Hey All,
We're going to try something different this year by reaching out to local churches and religious organizations to collect bikes.  Last year we had an unsolicited young man collect bikes for us as part of his confirmation.  This was awesome and he collected about 40 bikes for us. 

I'm drafting a letter to send out to religious orgs in the county asking them to collect bikes for us.  My goal is to find out what service projects the institutions already have in place, like confirmation, and see if we can piggy back those projects with bike collections.

Have any of you worked with religious orgs to collect bikes?  Please share any words of wisdom you might have.

Thx

Ride On!

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