if you don't have money but can produce plenty of volunteers to help you could keep the bikes in the USA and start a communtiy "yellow bike" program or donate them to an existing program in another area.

From: andrew anyone@breathingplanet.net To: The Think Tank thethinktank@bikecollectives.org Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 10:01 AM Subject: [TheThinkTank] Bikes for Crates

Hi Thinktank...    is anyone out there doing any crates to Africa or elsewhere currently?

we have been asked to participate in such things before and the stars never aligned, but now we are in a situation of needing to downsize our storage substantially.  Please contact me if there is anything going on, especially if its in the Northeast.... we could potentially contribute anywhere from 1-300 bikes, but we know little about how such projects operate.... we are all volunteer and dont have any budget to assist... just bikes.

Andrew Lynn Troy Bike Rescue Troy, NY

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On 20-Jun-11, at 12:01 PM, andrew wrote:

Hi Thinktank... is anyone out there doing any crates to Africa or elsewhere currently?

we have been asked to participate in such things before and the
stars never aligned, but now we are in a situation of needing to
downsize our storage substantially. Please contact me if there is
anything going on, especially if its in the Northeast.... we could
potentially contribute anywhere from 1-300 bikes, but we know little
about how such projects operate.... we are all volunteer and dont
have any budget to assist... just bikes.

Andrew Lynn Troy Bike Rescue Troy, NY

Hopefully you can find something. We've been teamed up with the
Ottawa chapter of Bicycles for Humanity for a couple of years now, and
it has been fabulous in terms of shedding our shop of excess bikes,
parts, and especially knobby mtn. bike tires. BfH does list locations
in the US, but none in the NE:

http://www.bicycles-for-humanity.org/Locate_Chapter_USA.php

Just don't send all your stuff across the border to our chapter. ;)
BfH got overwhelmed with responses this year, and since they only take
mtn. bikes we're about to pick up the 50 or so road and other bikes
they can't use...

Mark Rehder - Coordinator re-Cycles Community Bike Shop http://re-cycles.ca