Working with Churches and other Religious Orgs to Collect Bikes
Hey All, We're going to try something different this year by reaching out to local churches and religious organizations to collect bikes. Last year we had an unsolicited young man collect bikes for us as part of his confirmation. This was awesome and he collected about 40 bikes for us.
I'm drafting a letter to send out to religious orgs in the county asking them to collect bikes for us. My goal is to find out what service projects the institutions already have in place, like confirmation, and see if we can piggy back those projects with bike collections.
Have any of you worked with religious orgs to collect bikes? Please share any words of wisdom you might have.
Thx
Ride On!
We did a collection drive with a Unitarian Universalist church in town. The congregation was very supportive and mentioned us in their newsletter as well as during a Sunday service. The collection drive was set up in their parking lot on a Saturday afternoon and brought in about 40 bikes, though most of them came through our own promotion efforts.
Some (if not all) Jewish synagogues require a community service project as a requirement for a Bar or Bat Mitzvah, and a bike drive would make a good one. You may wish to contact area synagogues and ask them to recommend your organization to families looking for a project.
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Rich Points director@communitycycles.orgwrote:
Hey All, We're going to try something different this year by reaching out to local churches and religious organizations to collect bikes. Last year we had an unsolicited young man collect bikes for us as part of his confirmation. This was awesome and he collected about 40 bikes for us.
I'm drafting a letter to send out to religious orgs in the county asking them to collect bikes for us. My goal is to find out what service projects the institutions already have in place, like confirmation, and see if we can piggy back those projects with bike collections.
Have any of you worked with religious orgs to collect bikes? Please share any words of wisdom you might have.
Thx
Ride On!
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Rich Points http://communitycycles.org Executive Director (c)303-589-0597 (w)720-565-6019
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We have worked with a number of area churches both as collection points and distribution agencies. They have been very receptive to our efforts. Of course the key is finding the right person within the church to make it happen. It may be somewhat easier for us because we give away all our bikes.
Other sources of bikes include; charities that receive bike donations but don't have the staff to repair them. We pick up their bikes and return half of them repaired. The other half we repair and distribute.
Police departments. We pick up unclaimed bikes from their property room, repair them and then offer them thru programs the police run.
Scrap yards. We have one yard that gives us 30 to 40 bikes a month. Most are repairable, some go right back to scrap
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On Jan 29, 2013, at 8:28 AM, Rich Points director@communitycycles.org wrote:
Hey All, We're going to try something different this year by reaching out to local churches and religious organizations to collect bikes. Last year we had an unsolicited young man collect bikes for us as part of his confirmation. This was awesome and he collected about 40 bikes for us.
I'm drafting a letter to send out to religious orgs in the county asking them to collect bikes for us. My goal is to find out what service projects the institutions already have in place, like confirmation, and see if we can piggy back those projects with bike collections.
Have any of you worked with religious orgs to collect bikes? Please share any words of wisdom you might have.
Thx
Ride On!
--
Rich Points http://communitycycles.org Executive Director (c)303-589-0597 (w)720-565-6019
Community Cycles is Boulder's only bike shop dedicated to bike commuting. Find us on facebook https://www.facebook.com/CommunityCycles
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