Boise Bicycle Project

The 2023 Holiday Kids Bike Giveaway happened last Saturday, and we were thrilled with the turnout! In total, over 700+ bikes will be given to kids who were registered for the Holiday Kids Bike Giveaway and kids in Fort Hall and Duck Valley Reservations, and all 572 of our dream bikes were adopted thanks to your help. You can read the full story here!

Every year it takes a tremendous amount of community support to pull this event off! Thanks to UCC for helping us rebuild and for being an important part of our community. We’ve got 1 more week to make dreams come true for kids! Here are some ways you can help: 1)We still need 16”, 24” and BMX bikes. And blue & pink gently used kids bikes. Please bring them by our shop today & tomorrow between 1-4pm. 2) Adopt a dream bike on our website to help support the cost of refurbishing & dreamifying each unique bike - https://lnkd.in/giHC7cps Thank you for riding with us!

We're hiring a Director of Shop Operations to ensure that bicycles, bicycle repair, and bicycle education are available to our community! Do you know anyone who would be a good fit?

You can find our shop repping Idaho Gives this week! And Buddy too. To those of you who have supported us today, thank you! So far, we’re over 30% of the way to our goal of $100,000! If you’d like to donate to BBP during Idaho Gives, please visit IdahoGives.org.

Today kicks off Idaho Gives, where we aim to raise $100k in four days! This Idaho Gives, we invite you to join us on the path to opportunity: a journey that may begin with getting a bicycle, but extends to the personal, social, and economic opportunities that a bicycle provides. To donate, please visit: https://lnkd.in/gKQPrHVs The Holiday Kids Bike Giveaway is our flagship event, where we bring our community together to give over 500 bikes to kids and families in a single day. We work with an extensive referral network of community partners and nonprofit organizations to connect with kids in need of a bicycle and the connection and agency they provide. Alongside a team of volunteers and changemakers, we take a simple drawing and make magic - transforming it into a dreambike personalized to each kid. This event represents the best pieces of our community coming together to do something incredible, including women incarcerated at the South Boise Women’s Correctional Facility. These women are participants in our Shifting Gears program, in which they learn how to repair bicycles and gain job training & skills, as well as a restorative opportunity to see their impact in action as they run our bicycle safety course during the event and engage directly with the community that their work empowers. In 2023, we were able to give away 1,666 bicycles, with 250 of those bicycles refurbished by graduates of our Shifting Gears program. Your donation this Idaho Gives will allow us to ensure that all kids and families in our community have access to bicycles, while also serving to expand apprenticeship programming for incarcerated women and teens, This year we have a goal to raise $100,000 to ensure that all kids and families in our community have access to bicycles, while also serving to expand apprenticeship programming for teens and incarcerated women. Will you donate $25, $50, $100, or whatever is meaningful to you to help us expand our advocacy work and fund these new apprenticeship programs? Thanks to a generous donor, every dollar we receive during Idaho Gives will be matched up to $50,000! To donate, please visit: https://lnkd.in/gKQPrHVs