Community Cycles Volunteer and Earn-A-Bike Opportunities for September 4th

[Josh Brown]

Greetings all,

Thanks to all who came out and helped park bikes for us and for Venus De Miles. We parked over 300 bikes! So awesome to see you ladies and gents handle an event so professionally. A sincere thank you.

And thanks for bearing with us as we were closed over the weekend. We're back, and ready to get some work done. With your help, of course.

Here's what we have coming up.

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.

As always, email me with any questions.

Thanks again for your interest in and your support of Community Cycles. We would not be what we are without volunteers like you.

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

Grant Writers Wanted
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.

Youth Instructors wanted
Ongoing Wednesday afternoons, Ongoing Thursday Evenings
Community Cycles has two youth programs. Our Thursday Night Youth Earn-A-Bike, and our Family Learning Center After-School Bike Club. We need a dedicated crew of instructors to help guide the kids, teach them mechanics, and teach them safe riding skills like hand signals, riding on the right, etc. Our Thursday Night YEAB is set for instructors for the rest of the year, but if you're interested in getting involved in a deeper way, we're looking to revamp how the program works at the start of 2010. Please get in touch if you want to meet and help us shape the program for the future.
There is a higher commitment level for Youth Instructors (both programs meet two hours per week for six weeks in a row,) but you don't need any bike mechanic experience at all to help with this.
You should have experience working with kids, however.
Folks are highly encouraged to earn hours towards a bike or a service project by helping with a youth class,
but you should be prepared to help with all 6 classes per session.

 North Storage Work Nights are BACK ON! 4:30-9 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.
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.

Earn-a-Bikers, if you can at all make it when we start the evening, (4:30 PM on Wednesdays,) that would make our world much easier, as we can teach everyone the evening's lesson all at once.

Boulder Hometown Fair
Sunday, September 6th, 2 PM to 6 PM
"Just as the Boulder Creek Festival kicks off the summer in Boulder County, the Boulder Creek Hometown Fair is the perfect bookend to close out the summer event season in downtown Boulder." Community Cycles will have a booth at the fair, where we'll be getting the word out about who we are and what we do. We'll also have maps and some bike information for folks to take away.

We need one or two volunteers to help sit at our booth and answer questions about the organization, and you can also volunteer to help with general Hometown Fair needs, and get credit for that work. You're welcome to earn hours helping with this. Please email jo...@communitycycles.org for more information.

Rolling Bike Clinic at Howard Heuston Park,

12 - 4PM Saturday, August 22nd

Rolling bike clinics are one of the most fun activites we do.  What could be better than helping kids fix their bike? 
You can earn EAB hours working at the Rolling Bike Clinics. Please check in ahead of time if you're going to earn hours helping with the Rolling Bike Clinic. I don't know that there's a more enjoyable way to earn hours, or to spend the day.

We need all levels of mechanical ability, from novices who've never touched a bike or a wrench to those of you who know how to build wheels. Experience working with kids is definitely helpful, but not at all required. If you'd like to help with the Rolling Bike Clinic, meet us at the shop around 11:30 AM. We'll ride out around 11:40 AM.  Or you can meet us at the Howard Heuston park.
Help for an hour or the whole event. Bring some water and a snack for yourself. We'll be in the sun all day.

To get to Howard Heuston Park:

From Valmont and 30th, go east on Valmont. Turn north onto 34th.
When you reach the roundabout, cross the footbridge into the park.

From Iris and 30th, go east on Iris. Turn south onto 34th. The park is at the end of 34th Street.