We at the Sopo Bike Co-op in Atlanta really enjoy and cherish our status as a 501(c)3. We have made our application available for others to use as an example. You can find it on the Bikecollectives' Wiki: http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=IRS_Form_1023
Howdy,
another question from us folks at Freewheel in Madison.
Due to changes in our space arrangement, we lost the liability coverage we had through our partners. Now we're looking for basic liability and wondering if anyone has contacts at companies with sympathies for community groups and possibly a deal on rates, etc. Or at least an understanding of what community shops are and how to write a policy.
Any other insurance related tips would be appreciated.
Wajid Jenkins Freewheel Community Workshop
Here are some things to try: http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Insurance
**-- Sincerely,
Jonathan Morrison Project Coordinator 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
On 5/8/07, ride with heart freewheel@mutualaid.org wrote:
Howdy,
another question from us folks at Freewheel in Madison.
Due to changes in our space arrangement, we lost the liability coverage we had through our partners. Now we're looking for basic liability and wondering if anyone has contacts at companies with sympathies for community groups and possibly a deal on rates, etc. Or at least an understanding of what community shops are and how to write a policy.
Any other insurance related tips would be appreciated.
Wajid Jenkins Freewheel Community Workshop
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NBW has liability insurance from American Specialty through the League of American Bicyclists. A group must be an LAB member to get the discounted rate. Rates are based on your number of "members" (students and shop users, in our case) and cover regular activities only; extra coverage may be obtained for special outside-the-shop events and races on a fee-for-event basis.
LAB & liability together cost ~ $1300 annually, but NBW has *a lot* of member-users. When we only had 500 or so folks a year, the rate was much, much lower.
j
ride with heart wrote:
Howdy,
another question from us folks at Freewheel in Madison.
Due to changes in our space arrangement, we lost the liability coverage we had through our partners. Now we're looking for basic liability and wondering if anyone has contacts at companies with sympathies for community groups and possibly a deal on rates, etc. Or at least an understanding of what community shops are and how to write a policy.
Any other insurance related tips would be appreciated.
Wajid Jenkins Freewheel Community Workshop
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Good one! I updated the wiki to reflect it:
http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Insurance
On 5/8/07, Neighborhood Bike Works info@neighborhoodbikeworks.org wrote:
NBW has liability insurance from American Specialty through the League of American Bicyclists. A group must be an LAB member to get the discounted rate. Rates are based on your number of "members" (students and shop users, in our case) and cover regular activities only; extra coverage may be obtained for special outside-the-shop events and races on a fee-for-event basis.
LAB & liability together cost ~ $1300 annually, but NBW has *a lot* of member-users. When we only had 500 or so folks a year, the rate was much, much lower.
j
ride with heart wrote:
Howdy,
another question from us folks at Freewheel in Madison.
Due to changes in our space arrangement, we lost the liability coverage we had through our partners. Now we're looking for basic liability and wondering if anyone has contacts at companies with sympathies for community groups and possibly a deal on rates, etc. Or at least an understanding of what community shops are and how to write a policy.
Any other insurance related tips would be appreciated.
Wajid Jenkins Freewheel Community Workshop
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great! some good places to start. shoulda checked the WIKI first...now I know.
do all shops on this list have liability and child molestation insurance?
w.
Good one! I updated the wiki to reflect it:
http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Insurance
On 5/8/07, Neighborhood Bike Works info@neighborhoodbikeworks.org wrote:
NBW has liability insurance from American Specialty through the League of American Bicyclists. A group must be an LAB member to get the discounted rate. Rates are based on your number of "members" (students and shop users, in our case) and cover regular activities only; extra coverage may be obtained for special outside-the-shop events and races on a fee-for-event basis.
LAB & liability together cost ~ $1300 annually, but NBW has *a lot* of member-users. When we only had 500 or so folks a year, the rate was much, much lower.
j
ride with heart wrote:
Howdy,
another question from us folks at Freewheel in Madison.
Due to changes in our space arrangement, we lost the liability
coverage we
had through our partners. Now we're looking for basic liability and wondering if anyone has contacts at companies with sympathies for community groups and possibly a deal on rates, etc. Or at least an understanding of what community shops are and how to write a policy.
Any other insurance related tips would be appreciated.
Wajid Jenkins Freewheel Community Workshop
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-- Sincerely,
Jonathan Morrison Project Coordinator 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 _______________________________________________ thethinktank mailing list thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.o...
Ah, friendly simple green. Such a nice name. Is there anything you can do to this stuff to feel better about disposing of it. What do you guys do? .
We use a water based varsol substitute (Bio-Cycle from www.mec.ca) which we filter through coffee filters for increased life. The coffee filters (which are potentially quite toxic) end up in the garbage. When the Bio-Cycle will not longer filter/settle to a clear liquid we pour it back in the original containers and drop it off at the local dump's hazardous waste depot.
Chris
--- Andy Dyson andy@neighborhoodbikeworks.org wrote:
Ah, friendly simple green. Such a nice name. Is there anything you can do to this stuff to feel better about disposing of it. What do you guys do? .
-- Andrew C. Dyson Executive Director Neighborhood Bike Works Increasing opportunities for youth through bicycling
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