Community Cycles Volunteer opportunities for september 15, including one TODAY.

[Josh Brown]

Hey All,

Here is our bi-weekly list of events at which you can volunteer or earn hours towards a bike. There's one that's super short notice, it's at the top of the list. It's for TODAY.

First, I want to thank everyone for the help with our Rolling Bike  Clinics this summer. We're all done with them for the year. We had planned on doing 7 of them, and only one got cancelled due to weather. We tuned up over 200 bikes all told. We definitely could not have done nearly this much without your help. You can see pictures from a few of the Clinics on our website.
 Next year we hope to double the number of clinics, and bikes fixed. If you know of a neighborhood in Boulder you think could use a Rolling Bike Clinic next summer, please get in touch and we'll look into it.

On a different note, our Women and  Trans Night is facing the possibility of being cancelled due to lack of support. We need volunteers to help keep the shop open and available to women and trans people. You don't have to be an expert mechanic to help with this. If you're interested, please email me and I'll put you in touch with the current team of folks who is transitioning out of the lead role.

We still have space in our Traffic Skills 101 class. The deadline for registering is fast approaching. If you have questions, please get in touch. I highly recommend this class for anyone who rides a bike in a city environment, even if you don't ride on the street.

Following is a list of upcoming events and opportunities to get involved outside of our shop. You're always welcome to stop by the shop and schedule a shift, if you'd like to work there.

Those of you earning bikes, or earning hours for community service or Sewell 2020, you'll want to keep an eye out for the italics. Your details are there.

Thanks again, everyone, for all of your support. I look forward to hearing from or seeing you soon.

Josh Brown
Development Director
Community Cycles
720-565-6019
jo...@communtiycycles.org

Police Bicycle Donation Pickup, 2 PM TODAY.

The police department has a pile of bikes for us. We'll have a big panel trick which will hold all of them, but we need help "flattening" the bikes (take the pedals off, and turning the handlebars, both of which allow the bikes to be packed and stored in a smaller space/vehicle. You don't need mechanical experience to help with this, but you should be comfortable lifting a 20-40 pound bike, or receiving one off of a truck. If you'd like to help, but don't think you'll be able to help with the lifting, please email me.
We need 6-8 people to help today.
If you'd like to help with this, please go to the Boulder Police Department,
805 33rd St, Boulder (Next to the Salvation Army) at 2 PM.

Volunteer Orientation meeting, This Thursday, September 17th
Come and get a tour of our space and find out where we could most use you!  If you haven't been to a Volunteer Orientation, it's a great way to learn more about who we are and what we do. More importantly, it's a great way to find out how we can work together to make Boulder a better town in which to bike. Bring a friend for more fun! Those of you who have been to one Volunteer Orientation, and are looking to get more involved, please check out the Facilitator meeting info,
posted below, scheduled for later in the month.

Earn-a-Bike Participants are welcome and invited to join us at Volunteer Orientations and participate. Participation in the meeting will not count towards Earn-a-Bike hours, but it is a great way to learn about everything we have going on here, and how you can get involved, specifically outside of normal shop hours.

Grant Writing Team Meeting (Experienced Grant Writers only, please)
Tuesday, Sept 22, 6:30 PM, location TBA.

We'll meet and discuss strategies for working together as a team to get us some funding.  If you have experience writing grants, or working on a team that's written grants, please get in touch. We've got a bunch of grants we'd like to go after, and could use some help getting through them all, in addition to finding potential new ones. Experienced grant writers only, please.
Email jo...@communitycycles.org if you do have experience with this, and feel like applying that experience to our organization.
You're welcome to earn hours writing grants for us, but as that's not such a regimented by-the-hour activity,
we'll need to discuss your hours beforehand.

North Storage Work Nights are BACK ON! 4:00-8 PM, Ongoing Wednesdays
This is the easiest way to both learn some bike mechanics, and earn hours towards your Earn-a-Bike.
Back by popular demand. And staff availability.
You do NOT have to be an experienced mechanic to help us on Wednesday Nights.
We will teach you everything you need to know to help us. 
We have much more capacity for help and workers up at this location. We can handle about 20-30 volunteers. We've got about 400 bikes in our North Storage Facility. We work out of a donated Boulder County space, so we don't publish the address on our website, but here is a google map and the address of the building.
We're also looking for the right person or people to help us staff these nights on a regular basis. Expert mechanical knowledge is helpful, but not 100% necessary to help with this. If you're interested in committing to a regular Wednesday night schedule, please get in touch with jo...@communitycycles.org

Earn-a-Bikers, if you can at all make it when we start the evening, (4:00 PM on Wednesdays,) that would make our world much easier, as we can teach everyone the evening's lesson all at once.

Become part of the Community Cycles Street Team
We need folks to helpus spread the word about events and offering at Community Cycles. This

may involve putting up/passing out fliers, helping us get in touch with local media, or posting messages on Facebook or Myspace.

We're especially looking for some CU or Naropa students to help post flyers on campus. We can provide the flyers if you can help distribute them. Please email jo...@communitycycles.org for more information.

Want to help Community Cycles out on a higher level?
Think about becoming a Facilitator.
Monthly 'Tater meeting, Thursday, September 24th, 6-7 PM

We're looking to expand the core group of folks who make things happen here at Community Cycles. We call these people "Facilitators", or "Taters" for short. We'll be going over what it takes to become and stay a 'Tater at our monthly Tater Meeting, which will be on Thursday, September 24th, from 6-7 PM at the shop.