One of the jobs I do these days is helping run an initiative at Stanford University that is focused on helping folks achieve a better sense of belonging and personal well being. I've been putting a bug in my boss's ear for a while to do a project researching how cycling and being part of a community of cyclists helps individuals achieve positive mental health outcomes. We have a unique and highly time sensitive opportunity to request a very substantial amount of funding (ie over $100k) to track such outcomes in conjunction with a partner organization in California's Central Valley (specifically, El Dorado, Stanislaus, San Joaquin, Tuolomne, Merced, or Deb counties). The overwhelming majority of the funding would directly benefit the partner organization, and could potentially be directed to infrastructure building, distributing bikes or bike safety needs to youth, or staffing budget. Stanford would obviously keep a cut for admin costs, and there would be some cost to track the outcomes. "Tracking outcomes" in these sorts of models is fairly low-intensity -- like annual questionaries for participants.

If your org might fit with this, or if you know of one that might, please contact me asap (off list) for more information and brainstorming.

in cahoots,

kyle
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