2022 Big Share Fundraiser

Help us meet our fundraising goal by donating at https://www.thebigshare.org/organizations/wheels-for-winners. If you donate earlier, you can double your gift thanks to matches from Budget Bicycles and our volunteers.

This year your donations will fund our most ambitious project yet to promote access to bicycling within Communities of Color. In addition to doing what we do well, helping kids own their own wheels through our earn-a-bike program, we have big plans to support cycling in the community by (1) furnishing bikes for bike rodeos, (2) repairing hundreds of bikes at offsite locations, and (3) co-sponsoring and helping to develop community riding events in underserved neighborhoods. Since we are an all-volunteer organization, we keep our overhead low and your contributions will go directly to supporting our program activities such as buying supplies to refurbish donated bikes, getting helmets and locks to protect riders and their bikes, and paying for riding events.

Starting off 2022 right

On January 8th, we distributed 72 bikes at Centro Hispano. Volunteers Caitlin Hussey, Francisco Sayu, and Nadya Mariam, who are fluent in Spanish, were primary bike/helmet fitters. Neil McCallum and Jamie Campbell assisted where they could.

Lots of smiles! Francisco gave out his “Bike Equity” card to many of the recipients should follow up be required in the Spring.

The Push Continues

We have been busy this year refurbishing nearly 210 bikes and distributing over 270 refubished bikes and we would like to purchase new bikes as a special reward for bike earners. We are teaming up with Bike Forward and others to see if we can make it happen.