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| Spring 2009 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2010 | 2010 Grant Cycles & Information |
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.
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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.
Outcomes: (only received $5,000 due to fundraising efforts
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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%.
BikeDenver
Bike Denver will receive a $20,000 matching Startup/Capacity Grant to launch a comprehensive public education and outreach campaign that will increase the number of people who bike in and around Denver. With assistance from a professional marketing firm, the campaign will emphasize the positive effects and emotions that result from biking and empower more people in Denver to ride for fun or transportation. The grant will also support Bike Denver’s efforts to secure a commitment to build a permanent bike parking facility at Union Station, advocate for the adoption of a complete streets policy, and fully transition from an all-volunteer organization to a professionally run nonprofit.
Idaho Pedestrian and Bicycle Alliance
A $20,000 matching Startup/Capacity Grant will help elevate the Idaho Pedestrian and Bicycle Alliance’s (IPBA) into an effective voice for pedestrians and bicyclists in Idaho. The grant will allow IPBA to hire their first executive director, develop their website and new media presence, and build membership. In addition, this grant will help IPBA expand workshop offerings for local advocates at a statewide conference, enhancing the effectiveness of the many local pedestrian and bicycling advocates and groups throughout the state.
New Jersey Bicycle Coalition
New Jersey Bicycle Coalition (NJBC) will use a $25,000 matching Startup/Capacity Grant to strengthen their legislative campaign to pass a vulnerable road user law and to ensure New Jersey’s recently adopted complete streets policy is implemented. This grant will also help NJBC train new bike education instructors, and utilize current instructors, to establish a statewide adult and child bicycle education program. In addition, NJBC will hire their first executive director to manage these initiatives and take their statewide organization to the next level.
Bicycle Alliance of Washington
A $12,500 matching Innovation Grant will assist the Bicycle Alliance of Washington in efforts to tap state funds appropriated at the local level, a newly-identified potential funding source for biking and walking projects in the state. The Bicycle Alliance will introduce this funding opportunity to bicycle advocates in five cities across Washington. Through outreach to key advocates, education, and local workshops, the Bicycle Alliance will increase the percentage of biking and walking projects applying for and receiving this funding. This grant also helps fulfill our mission to build bridges between the cycling community and state agencies and to develop strategic partnerships in the “hub” communities. It will also help the Alliance to create and empower more bicycle and walking advocates in each community.
Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin
Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin will receive a $20,000 matching Innovation Grant to create a district-wide Safe Routes to School (SRTS) plan and work with four pilot schools to create and implement action plans. With a new full-time SRTS Developer embedded in the Madison Metropolitan School District, the Bike Fed has a unique opportunity to work side-by-side with the Superintendent’s office and closely with school principals, students, and parents. The partnership will ensure the new SRTS plan has deep support and realistic, feasible goals. The ultimate goal of this effort is to develop action plans at all 48 schools so that walking and biking become commonplace among children in the district. Bike Fed also hopes this district will serve as a model for others in the state and country.
Bike Pittsburgh
A $15,000 matching Innovation Grant will bolster Bike Pittsburgh’s Car Free Fridays program. This innovative effort engages a wide range of transportation partners to focus on a mutual goal of challenging commuters not to drive alone to work. The event will spotlight one neighborhood each month, engaging municipal managers to encourage residents, shoppers, and patrons to commute, shop, and visit car-free. BikePGH will also introduce a bike/walk calculator application to tally users calories burned, and money and emissions saved. The application will provide the framework for a friendly competition between local employers and neighborhoods, and could be replicated to get entire municipalities, cities, and states competing on a per capita basis.
Consider Biking
Columbus, OH-based Consider Biking will use a $12,500 matching Innovation Grant to boost their Corporate Cycling Caucus program. Through a top-down strategy of having the area’s biggest employers enable and encourage their workers to bike for any reason, Consider Biking aims to increase local bike mode share to 2% of trips by 2012. To achieve this goal, Consider Biking will utilize the principles of Community Based Social Marketing, the measurable strategy of changing behavior that has been tested and credited with many successes in Canada and Australia in the last decade. This workplace intervention program will unify the support of the corporate community to advocate for a bicycle-friendly Columbus.
| Spring 2009 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2010 | 2010 Grant Cycles & Information |
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