No need to reinvent the wheel, if you need advocacy training or materials, contact the following groups (especially the alliance for walking and biking)... http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cycling_Advocacy
Many folks have been adding to this Bike Collective Starter Kit... http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Bike_Collective_Starter_...
The key factor is that it is just like editing wikipedia, which if you haven't done, you just need to click on the little 'edit' links to the right of each section -- add text -- click save. If you don't want to deal with the recaptcha anti-spam widget -- create an account and log in. Don't worry about the wiki syntax, just concentrate on the content -- others and myself go around from time to time and clean the syntax up.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Morrison Executive Director 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
The mission of the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective is to promote cycling as an effective and sustainable form of transportation and as a cornerstone of a cleaner, healthier, and safer society. The Bicycle Collective provides refurbished bicycles and educational programs to the community, focusing on children and lower income households.
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:27 AM, winter.snowy.rose@gmail.com wrote:
Sounds a bit like "the bike shop starter kit" idea that I heard floating around when I visited Montréal. Seems that this is a popular idea.
Chloé Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network
-----Original Message----- From: Dugan Meyer dugan.meyer@gmail.com Sender: thethinktank-bounces@lists.bikecollectives.orgDate: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 12:10:39 To: Think Tank Listservthethinktank@bikecollectives.org Reply-To: The Think Tank thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: [TheThinkTank] Advocacy Resources Produced/Used by Community Projects
Some folks associated with MoBo Bike Co-op in Cincinnati are trying to put together bicycle advocacy resources into a sort of advocacy toolbox. Our goal is to produce something that could be used to equip or incite community members to do advocacy work/build community around bikes.
I'm curious if any shops out there like ours have produced anything like this, and could share advocacy resources/ideas they have used. Those of you who do advocacy work of any kind: what resources/documents/actions do you use? Are community projects, specifically co-ops, producing anything of their own or simply borrowing resources from traditional advocacy organizations/clubs?
In the spring we'd like to begin doing some off-site advocacy "workshops"- essentially group events with cyclists and community members who aren't currently connected with our shop community in which we'd provide resources and/or trainings on topics like 'how to organize group rides', 'advocating for better bike laws and planning in your community', 'encouraging new riders', etc.
Any resources, ideas, tips you could pass along would be well-appreciated! Thanks.
Dugan Meyer MoBo Bike Co-op, Cincinnati _______________________________________________ Thethinktank mailing list Thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org To unsubscribe, send a blank email to TheThinkTank-leave@bikecollectives.org To manage your subscription, plase visit:
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