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Advocacy Advance Grant Recipients

Spring 2009

Fall 2009

2010 Grant Cycles & Information

Spring 2009

Startup/ Capacity Building Grant Recipients

Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota
Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota received a $10,000 matching grant to assemble and train a coalition to work towards statewide complete streets legislation in 2010. To do this they developed an advocacy network with strength in both greater Minnesota and the Twin Cities metropolitan area, growing an informed membership base that can influence public policy for the 2010 legislative session and beyond. In an addition, the funds will support the salary of a full time executive director.

Green Mobility Network
Miami, FL based Green Mobility Network was awarded a $30,000 matching grant to make Miami-Dade County a healthier, more livable community by promoting bicycling, running, and walking for daily transportation, leisure, and fitness.  The grant will help fund their first full executive director and the “Complete the M-Path” campaign. The campaign goal is to connect and complete a 30-mile bicycle-pedestrian corridor running from downtown Miami to the county’s southern border. 

Pennsylvania Walks and Bikes
Pennsylvania Walks and Bikes will put the $30,000 matching grant they received to hire an executive director and work on building the first statewide coalition for biking and walking in Pennsylvania. The coalition will work to introduce state bicycle and pedestrian laws, policies, and funding are enacted. PA Bikes and Walks was founded in 2009 to create healthy, sustainable communities across Pennsylvania by making bicycling and walking safer, more convenient and more enjoyable.

Walk Oakland Bike Oakland
Walk Oakland Bike Oakland received a $15,000 matching grant for an executive director and to advocate for bicycle and pedestrian access in several upcoming street redesign projects. Their “Bike Broadway” campaign will ensure active resident participation in the planning process and will push Oakland, CA to implement new bike lanes on the street and a funding plan for other bike/ped infrastructure while strengthening WOBO’s foundation for long-term success.

Innovation Grant Recipients

Fairfax Advocates for Better Bicycling and Washington Area Bicyclist Association
Fairfax Advocates for Better Bicycling (a local chapter of the DC regional WABA) received $9,600 to develop a handbook to help bicycling advocates understand how to best influence and play a constructive role during the design of new facilities. This resource will help bridge the gap between advocates, successful advocacy, and design engineers and will be available online for reference by advocates across North America.

League of Illinois Bicyclists
A $5,000 grant will help the League of Illinois Bicyclists (LIB) leverage a $5,000 matching grant to educate new and existing planners on proper bicyclist accommodations, education and encouragement, and bikeway funding tips. Through a course at University of Illinois Chicago, and several seminars that offer continuing education credits, they will help create a greater demand for bikeway funding in the state by educating planners. LIB will package this course and seminar so that other Alliance groups can easily replicate them.

San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC) received $25,000 to design and advocate for a pedestrian-, bicyclist- and transit-rider-centered Market Street. In addition to increasing bicycling, walking, and transit traffic on Market Street, the transformation of this iconic American main street, will be a highly visible symbol for the community and nation. SFBC will use this experience to provide a set of tools for major street transformation that advocates around the country can use to work towards large-scale change on their own communities’ main street.

Transportation Alternatives
New York City’s Transportation Alternatives received $25,000 for the “Blue Ribbon Commission” report, which will bring together key stakeholders for safer streets including families of crash victims, transportation unions, and the Department of Motor Vehicles.  An ensuing legislative campaign will focus on winning historic new laws protecting vulnerable road users, namely children and senior pedestrians, and reforming enforcement practices at the city and state levels.

Fall 2009

Startup/ Capacity Building Grant Recipients

Central Connecticut Bicycle Alliance
The Central Connecticut Bicycle Alliance (CCBA) will use a $15,000 matching Startup/Capacity Building Grant to transform from a regional to a statewide bicycle and pedestrian advocacy organization. As a new statewide voice for biking and walking in Connecticut, they will educate the public and state and local leaders to promote and accelerate the implementation of the recently passed CT Complete Streets law, which requires that the rights of all road users be considered in road design. This grant will also help CCBA hire their first Executive Director and work to broaden and promote their current bike safety education programs to reach more communities across Connecticut.

LivableStreets Alliance
Boston-based LivableStreets Alliance received a $30,000 matching Startup/Capacity Building Grant to launch a neighborhood outreach campaign to build grassroots support for improved bicycle, pedestrian and public transit design and facilities to make the Boston metro area more connected and livable. The campaign will also ensure that the soon-to-be renovated bridges over the Charles River include improvements for bicycle and pedestrian access. In addition, this grant will allow them to hire an Executive Director.

New Orleans Metro Bicycle Coalition
A $12,500 matching Startup/Capacity Building Grant will boost the New Orleans Metro Bicycle Coalition’s (MBC) efforts to ensure inclusion of bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure in New Orleans recovery projects. MBC will also hire their first Executive Director and will work to implement the bicycle and pedestrian policy and ordinance recommendations included in the New Orleans Master Plan.

Innovation Grant Recipients

Active Transportation Alliance
Chicago-based Active Transportation Alliance was awarded a $30,000 matching Innovation Grant for its Active Living on the Block campaign. The campaign will facilitate community-planning charettes into 24 neighborhood block parties. Active Trans will use charette information to integrate transportation elements into neighborhoods’ Quality of Life Plans and will provide technical assistance for neighborhood-level funding requests for built environment changes. The campaign will use community-based design to empower and energize neighborhoods with fewer economic resources and networks to make their built environment safe and accessible for biking and walking.

Cascade Bicycle Club Education Fund
Seattle Area’s Cascade Bicycle Club will use a $16,500 matching Innovation Grant to create a replicable bikeability/walkability assessment tool to understand unique neighborhood needs and issues and identify barriers to bicycling and walking. They will also custom-create appropriate programs to address identified barriers. Tactics in working with this underserved community likely will include multi-lingual materials, door-to-door outreach, community rides, family-friendly events, and grassroots advocacy for street improvements/bicyclist safety. The ultimate objective of this pilot is to increase the number of Southeast Seattle residents who bike and walk to Link light rail stations by 50%.

Spring 2009

Fall 2009

2010 Grant Cycles & Information