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BIKE WORKS
FLAT TIRE FLYER
2020-2021
MISSION VISION
Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a Mobilized people.
vehicle for change to empower youth Thriving communities.
and build resilient communities. Healthy planet.
A YEAR IN NUMBERS - 2019 100+
community partners
2,197 youth participants
pounds of material
907 100% 281k
bikes given away to low of scholarship diverted from
income youth and adults needs met the LANDFILL
10,330 1,041 adult participants 8,038
bike shop bikes donated
transactions to Bike Works
Mary Lee used to commute to her job as a nurse at
ESSENTIAL SERVICES
Harborview on a rusty old bike. Her two children, Charlie
(age 3) and Otis (age 5) started on striders and quickly
learned to ride pedal bikes from Bike Works.
One day, after a particularly miserable ride home on her rickety “lemon”, she decided to
invest in a new bike from Bike Works. “I was worried about the cost of a brand-new bike but
was able to find this refurbished one well within my price range.” Now she rides confidently
with Charlie and Otis and saves time on her commute to the hospital.
“When it was donated, this Scott was dirty, covered in stickers, and in fairly rough shape,”
says Allie, in the Bike Works Recycle & Reuse Department. “I decided to strip the bike down
to the frame, give it a thorough cleaning, and rebuild it with parts that will last a lifetime.”
Our Recycle & Reuse team processed over 8,000 bike donations in 2019. They refurbished
some of those bikes to sell in the shop, and funneled others to youth & adult mechanics
classes to be fixed up and given away to community members. What Bike Works couldn’t
use was re-donated to other cycling programs, stripped
for parts, or recycled.
Since March 2020, Bike Works has offered a 50%
discount on bike repair services to essential workers
like Mary Lee. During the COVID-19 pandemic, all bike
repair services are appointment-only, and all sales are
through our new web store:
shop.bikeworks.org
10% OFF
YOUR TOTAL PURCHASE IN VISIT
OUR WEB STORE OVER $50 SHOP.BIKEWORKS.ORG
WITH THE WEB CODE FTF20 Expires 10/31/2021
Over the last year, we delivered nearly a thousand bikes to youth
BIKES-FOR-ALL! and families through our bike giveaway program, Bikes-for-All!
Ella is a Community Builder at Seattle Housing Authority, and helped
coordinate a bike giveaway event with Bike Works where 23 youth living in low-income
housing received a free bicycle and helmet. One of the youths is a graduate of the Bike Works
Earn-A-Bike program, and now uses her new bike to commute to her part-time job.
Ella and her daughter Japhia are both recipients of the Bikes-for-All! program. They ride
together for exercise, fresh air, and even to run errands. "This bike means freedom to Japhia,"
says Ella. "She hasn't been able to get out much since we've been in quarantine, and even
before that, she felt isolation as an only child who hasn't fully acclimated to life in the US. This
bike gives her something to be proud of and a new way to engage with people."
To qualify for Bikes-for-All!, folks must not already own a bike, and live within our strategic
planning target area of southeast Seattle.
APPLY FOR A FREE BIKE
THROUGH BIKES-FOR-ALL!
BIKEWORKS.ORG/BIKES-FOR-ALL
INCREASING ACCESS
Our mobile bike shop, the BikeMobile, offers free bike repair around the city.
Sarah and her family received services from the BikeMobile in the summer of 2020. “ALL
families deserve access to the health, well-being, and environmental benefits of biking! The
various barriers that our family faced (in finding affordable bikes), despite the resources we do
have, highlight the current inequities in access to biking.”
The BikeMobile is designed to increase access to bike repair to youth, Black, Indigenous, and
People of Color, and other members of marginalized communities by visiting ‘bike deserts’ in SE
Seattle where bike shops are few and far between.
Follow #BikeMobile on social media and find the schedule at bikeworks.org/bikemobile
SAVE THE DATE! !
JUNE 13TH BIKE WORKS 25TH
2021 ANNIVERSARY PARTY
BUILDING COMMUNITY FROM A SAFE DISTANCE
In 2020, we launched an online event series, “Bicycle Stories,” featuring inspiring speakers
about how the bicycle has been a vehicle for change in their lives. Karen attended an event
featuring local activist Phyllis Porter.
"Bike Works has been a great resource for me as a Black woman that recently took up biking.
From my first encounter with the Bike Works crew a couple of years ago at the Refuge Outdoor
Festival where I learned about bike camping and how to fix a flat, to Phyllis Porter's recent
online presentation about Safe Streets Activism and the Seattle chapter of Black Girls Do Bike,
Bike Works has become my trusted go-to source for learning about biking and connecting with
other BIPOC folks in the Seattle biking community." – Karen
Keep up with our web calendar for upcoming events!
bikeworks.org/calendar
ONLINE RESOURCES
Our mission is not just to build bikes, but
to build sustainable communities by
increasing access to cycling knowledge
and skills. That’s why we created a bank TAKING ACTION FOR THE FUTURE
of educational videos, lessons, quizzes,
and other online resources. Our flagship
product is “Frameworks”, our modular In 2019 & 2020, our staff, Board of
curriculum that we’ve made publicly Directors, Youth Advisory Committee,
available so that anybody can pursue and Racial Equity Taskforce wrote a
their bicycle education from home. Strategic Plan for 2021 – 2025 through a
racial equity lens. The Youth Advisory
Committee is a group of young people
Expand your mind and skillset! who have been through Bike Works
bikeworks.org/virtual-resources programs and meet regularly to guide
youth engagement in the community.
The Racial Equity Taskforce is composed
of community members of color who
contribute to our antiracist work. We will
share the new Strategic Plan for 2021 -
2025 with our community in 2021.
Read our Strategic and Racial Equity
Action Plans: bikeworks.org/about
Stay in the loop about upcoming Programs: bikeworks.org/programs
GET INVOLVED! Questions? Call 206.582.2851 or email development@bikeworks.org
• Donate your bike or organize a bike drive • Sign up for the Bike Works e-newsletter,
bikeworks.org/donate-a-bike Pedal Forward: bikeworks.org/about
• Make a gift to Bike Works • Name Bike Works as a beneficiary of your estate
bikeworks.org/donate • Attend or sponsor a Bike Works event
Foundations & Corporate Donors
2020 Cycle | 3Degrees Talent | ABUS USA | Adobe Systems | Alaffia | All City Fence | Alta Planning & Design
Ameriprise Financial | Apple | ATR Engineering | Bank of America Charitable Foundation | BECU
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Byron & Alice Lockwood Foundation | Cascade Bicycle Club
Cascadia Consulting | Catalysis LLC | Chevron | City of Seattle - Office of Arts & Culture
City of Seattle Parks & Rec (Hope for Youth) | Clif Bar Family Foundation | Columbia Bank
Conduit Coffee Company | Costco | Cummins Sales & Service | Dawn Foods Foundation
Delta Dental of Washington | Disney | Dropbox | Eleven Winery | Elizabeth A. Lynn Foundation | EMI Consulting
Essential Baking Company | Evolucion Innovations | Expedia | F5 Networks | FareStart
Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery | FootWorks Cycles | Fred Meyer Community Awards | G&O Family Cyclery
GE Foundation | General Motors | GGLO | GLY Construction | GM Nameplate | Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Good Today | Google | Grousemont Foundation | Harrington Schiff Foundation | Heritage Bank
Horizons Foundation | Howell Family Charitable Fund | HSBC Philanthropic Programs | Indeed
Jasper Family Giving | John E. & Elizabeth Kurtz Charitable Foundation | Kaiser Permanente
King County Employee Giving Program | Lease Crutcher Lewis | Lester & Phyllis Epstein Foundation
Lucky Seven Foundation | Luum | Macdonald-Miller | Medina Foundation | Microsoft | Moccasin Lake Foundation
Motorola Solutions Foundation | New Belgium Brewing Company | New Seasons | Nintendo | Nordstrom
Northwest Construction | Olympus | One Eighty Foundation | OneFamily Foundation | Oracle | ORArchitects
Pacific Office Automation | PCC Community Markets | Peddler Brewing Company | PMI Worldwide | Port of Seattle
Puget Sound Energy Foundation | Rad Power Bikes | Raynier Foundation | Recology Cleanscapes | ReRack
Royal Little Family Foundation | Russell Investments | Salesforce | Satterberg Foundation
School's Out Washington | Seapax | Seattle Children's | Seattle Credit Union
Seattle Department of Transportation | Seattle Mountain Bike Tours | Sound Credit Union
Sound Planning Meeting & Events | SPIN Cycling Team | Starbucks Coffee Company | Swedish Health Services
Tableau | Tableau Foundation | Take Two Software | Tern | The Boeing Company | The Bungie Foundation
The Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation | The Norcliffe Foundation | The Raven Foundation | The ReCyclery
The Seneca Real Estate Group | The VERTEX Companies | Thomson Reuters Corporation | T-Mobile USA
TransWest | Triple Bottom Line Construction | Tulalip Tribes Council | Tutta Bella | UHG | United Way of King Co.
Verity Credit Union | Vulcan | Washington Bike Law | Washington Federal | WA State Employees Credit Union
Washington Women's Foundation | Workday | Wyman Youth Trust | Wyncote Foundation Northwest
Xtracycle | ZGF Architects | Zulily
2019 & 2020 supporters as of September 30, 2020
† Board Member
° Staff
Ω Legacy Donor
THANK YOU! * MasterLinks Recurring
Giving Club Member
= Racial Equity Taskforce
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