Cycles for Change in St. Paul, Minnesota collects most of our bicycles through Bike Drives. Many of these have been coordinated in partnership with churches. We&#39;ve found churches to be supportive of our work and focused on social justice. We&#39;ve worked with a couple smaller churches and collected 20-30 bikes, and we also partnered with a much larger suburban church about 2 years ago and collected 150 bikes - which was almost more than we could handle. I highly recommend collaborating with churches for Bike Drives. In my experience, we&#39;ve connected with a &quot;social justice ministries&quot; committee, rather than a youth doing service for confirmation, as Rich mentioned, but I&#39;m sure both are opportunities to explore.<br>

<br>Other groups we&#39;ve worked with to coordinate Bike Drives include: business, including REI which has been an amazing partner, doing bike drives at each of their three metropolitan stores; a local Lions Club, which brought in 90 bikes; Eagle Scouts, who have done some very successful bike drives.<br>

<br>This is from a few years ago, but Working Bikes Coop in Chicago had a pretty incredible operation coordinating dozens of Bike Drives and collecting bikes from throughout the Chicago metro area.<br clear="all">Jason Tanzman<br>

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