Wheels' Newsletter May 2025

Providing refurbished bikes to people doing community service for over 30 years!

Big Share Fundraising Report

A huge thank you to all our supporters who helped make our Big Share Campaign a huge success!!!  With everyone's help we exceeded our fundraising goal, raising $24,716 with 106 donations.  We had matching donations from the Wheels for Winners' Volunteers, our business sponsor Budget Bicycle Center, and a Founder's Match from Ruth Ann Schoer and Paul Marunich.  Ruth Ann Schoer was an instrumental founder of Wheels in 1992.

2025 Free Bike Repair Events Calendar

See our full 2025 repair event schedule at: https://wheelsforwinners.org/free-repair-events. Our 2025 spring and summer Outreach season is already in full swing. Outreach coordinator extraordinaire, Alan Crossley, and W4W volunteer mechanics will be hosting community-based, repair events with community partners like Kennedy Heights and Bayview Community Centers, Centro Hispanico, Goodman South Library and at the Ride the Drive event.

Early April 2025 Free Bike Repair Event at Sandburg Elementary School

W4W Supports Local High School Bike Clubs

With support from the Wisconsin Bike Fed, students from Memorial, East and La Follette high schools are  promoting sustainable transportation and hands-on bike maintenance skills among students. The clubs meet weekly.  Wheels For Winners has also been able to provide helmets, bike lights and access to refurbished bikes in exchange for community service hours.
https://www.madison.k12.wi.us/about/news/article/~board/newsstories/post/memorial-bike-club-awarded-grant-from-youth-climate-action-fund

Bike Donations

Have an old bike that you don't use anymore?  Donate it to Wheels for Winners.  229 S. Fair Oaks Ave., Madison, WI 53704 - see below for shop hours. Your donated bike will be given free to youth and adults experiencing challenges in their daily lives who perform community service.  We serve people primarily in Madison and Dane County. We clean, adjust, repair, and rebuild every bike we give out.https://wheelsforwinners.org/donate-a-bike

Wheels partner organizations support our efforts with videos. 

Check out the video testimonials at YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@wheelsforwinners8409

 If you have suggestions, questions, or comments, please email them to wheelsforwinners@gmail.com   Your support is deeply appreciated!  We could not do this without you!

 Sincerely - The Wheels for Winners Team

Providing refurbished bikes to people doing community service for over 30 years!

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Wheels for Winners Collaborates with Bike Repair Program at Madison Public Library

Natalie Schad, Wheels volunteer and Dane Co Youth Education Program Manager for WI Bike Fed, organized a great collaboration with the Madison Public Library to teach people basic bike maintenance. This great collaboration includes Wheels for Winners, DreamBikes - Madison North and the Wisconsin Bike Fed.

The events took place at the end of August at the Alicia Ashman and Goodman South Library branches. See the great Capital Times article below to learn more.

https://captimes.com/news/community/bike-repair-program-at-madison-public-library-provides-how-to-lessons/article_3a062b88-649d-11ef-9ddb-63303c77be3c.html

Alan Crossley, Wheels for Winners volunteer mechanic, works on a bike for the Care and Repair program.

Photo by NICHOLAS GARTON of the Capital Times

Another Free Bike Repair Event - Saturday May 11

We want to keep you biking and make sure your bike is safe to ride. Bring your bike Akira Toki Middle School on Saturday. Hope to see you there!

Held in cooperation with Wisconsin Bike Fed Madison Mobile Bike Repair, DreamBikes - Madison North and Wheels for Winners