Our key impacts are bikes worked on (operations); people connections; and extra riding generated. 
All our "operation" reportables are recorded for each bike/vehicle on a double sided card less than A5 size that is filled in manually when the bikes goes out. We then enter this manually into a database.
This card includes a question about how many times the recipient ride in the last month.
We do a follow up survey by text/survey monkey once or twice a year that allows us to report on how much extra riding we generate (about 700,000 extra rides a year).  
By recording donor; staff/volunteer; recipient and recipient relationship (for children), we get a measure of how many connections between people we made. 
When we do a School Bike Check we can report back to the local council or client as soon as we enter the data (we aim for within two days) and the totals end of each year. Since we record repairs were can also report on risk repairs and types.


Bart Sbeghen
Founder and CEO
Dr Cranky's - Bikes for Kids
M 0418 231 686
E barts@drcrankys.com.au

From: Jean-Francois Caron via TheThinkTank <thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2025 2:03:13 pm
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Cc: Jean-Francois Caron <jfcaron3@gmail.com>
Subject: [TheThinkTank] Re: Quantifying Impacts

At the Bike Kitchen in Vancouver BC we would continuously keep track of:
- tons of steel/rubber recycled
- number of bikes sold/given/scrapped
- volunteer hours
- free bike tune-ups
- attendees at various workshops etc

Jean-François 

On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 15:03 Andrew Yee via TheThinkTank <thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org> wrote:
Audrey,

Love your annual report. Keep up the good work, and hopefully, cyclocross!
-A

On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM Audrey Wiedemeier via TheThinkTank <thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org> wrote:
Greeting Friends, 

Attached are four things--the first two docs you didn't ask for but they are cool. It is a zine we made for our shop as we distinguish ourselves as a resiliency hub. It's our attempt to explain what a resiliency hub is. 

The 3rd and 4th things are our End of Year appeal and remittance envelope. The end of year appeal has quantifiable data and a capital campaign update. We usually do a few impact stories in here but the campaign took up that spot this year. Under my signature is a blank space in which we write personalized messages to our top 200 donors. We send out about 1600 of these. The front is a poster designed by a local artist that we print out in letterpress form by a local printmaker for all our volunteers and $150+ donors. 

Think of you all always. 


On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM Bobby Kennedy via TheThinkTank <thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org> wrote:
Howdy, all!

Tis' grant application season and we at the Street Collective are busy as elves begging Santa for decent wages and sanitary working conditions! Something that comes up regularly is that major donors want to see quantitative data about our impacts on the community as part of their grant application processes. We've talked about follow-up surveys, but I wanted to know if other organizations have tried to gather hard data about how bikes have helped their clients.

Thanks in advance!

-Bobby

Bobby Kennedy
Director of Bike Shop Operations
515-288-8022
c: 319-551-6174


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