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Bike More Challenge – Coming Sooner!

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Bike Commute Challenge
For the first year ever, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) has moved their #BikeMore Challenge (previously in September) to correspond with National Bike Month (May). Formerly known as the Bike Commute Challenge, the event is back and better than ever. This year, every ride counts! This means that teams can count ALL trips maid during the month of May, not just commuter trips to work. Grocery store, BBQ, party ride? Count ’em up!

7f1cc31fb40aa777a04a79e67c73da59We are proud sponsors of this event and we always get super into it as a team. It is an awesome way for a bike business like ours to demonstrate the amount we ride, the miles we log, and to encourage others to join us.

How it works: During May, businesses will compete against each other to see who can get the most staff to ride a bike and log their trips. For 2016 they’re using a simple points model to allow workplaces to compete with each other across their size category. The points system has been carefully selected to ensure a fair and exciting competition, and to strongly encourage workplaces to engage new riders if they want to climb the leaderboard and secure victory!

An added bonus are the piles of prizes you can win just from participating online and logging your trips; prizes will be announced as the Challenge approaches. Also, once you’ve biked seven days in May you’ll unlock a 20% discount from Portland Design Works (PDW), bike ten days for a 15% off from Shower’s Pass. Also, participants who log just four days will get access to hundred of discounts and freebies from Chinook Book!

Women BikeIt’s easy: join your workplace team, ride, earn points, and win prizes, awards, and GLORY for your team! We hope you’ll register now and join us for the month of May! Bike more, bike better, and power to the pedal!

The Challenge Launch Party is Monday, May 2nd at three locations around town! All three take place at various Bike Gallery Locations (Hollywood, Beaverton, Clackamas), you’ll get Hopworks beer to guzzle and they’ll be raffling off a free bike tune-up.

The Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) is a non-profit membership organization working to promote bicycling and improve bicycling conditions in Oregon. Since 1990, theBTA has worked in partnership with citizens, businesses, community groups, government agencies, and elected officials to create communities where people can meet their daily transportation needs on a bike.

 

 

 

 

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Been a Little Bad? Give Back!

by Marketing

Capture 2If you’re looking for that special someone — to donate your money to — the Willamette Week Give!Guide is a great place to start. They’ve handpicked 143 of Portland’s most impactful nonprofits and put them all in one place, making it easy to browse categories and donate.

Willamette Week makes it a point to include a range of organizations in the categories of Animals, Arts, Community, Education, Environment, Social Action, Health & Wellness, and Youth. They also work to include both large and small organizations.

CaptureGiving through the Give!Guide offers incentives too, you’ll receive free and discounted products from your favorite local brands via the Chinook Book mobile app (I use this and there are A LOT of really good deals available). Portland area residents who give will receive thank you bags as well, while supplies last.

The Schlesinger Family Foundation is also posing a challenge to donors: nonprofits with the most individual donors 35 and under in each category will be awarded $1000. Get an up-to-the-minute count of each organization’s donors 35 and under here. Willamette Week realizes that if young people begin supporting non-profit organizations at a young age, even at smaller levels, they are likely to continue to give as they get older, and the amount of their support is likely to grow with their incomes.

You’ve been working hard all year, time to put some of that money back to work in the community! Donations are accepted through December 31st.

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There’s Still Time to Give to the GiveGuide!

by Jon Elias

20141105_173914Willamette Week is making it easier to give back to the community. WW has hand-selected 136 great Portland nonprofits that need your help this holiday season. This helps make it easy for you to make a donation – and a connection – to groups in your community. What you give today will help make Portland a better place all year long.

This guide doesn’t just cater to a small portion of the community, either. Whether you’re a health nut, an animal lover, or a patron of the arts, or all three, WW has a way you can help out the community. Choose from a variety of nonprofits benefiting animals, education, arts, the environment, health and wellness, and other alternatives.

And the best part is, the more you give, the more you get back! Donating at any level, and you’ll receive free and discounted products from your favorite local brands, like Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Chinook Book, Portland Center Stage, Widmer Brothers, and more!

On top of that, you can also take place in the McMenamins Challenge! Nonprofits with the most individual donors 35 and under in each category will be awarded $1000!

Help make Portland a better place for the whole year round by giving a little extra this season. Donate soon! The deadline for all donations is Midnight, December 31st!

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Wilamette Week Makes Giving Easier!

by Jon Elias

TGG-2012-Logo1he Holidays have the ability to bring out the best of people. We make an extra effort to reach out to the community during the holiday season, making sure everyone gets a little joy in their life.

This year, Wilamette Week is making it easier to give back to the community. WW has hand-selected 136 great Portland nonprofits that need your help this holiday season. This helps make it easy for you to make a donation – and a connection – to groups in your community. What you give today will help make Portland a better place all year long.

This guide doesn’t just cater to a small portion of the community, either. Whether you’re a health nut, an animal lover, or a patron of the arts, or all three, WW has a way you can help out the community. Choose from a variety of nonprofits benefiting animals, education, arts, the environment, health and wellness, and other alternatives.

And the best part is, the more you give, the more you get back! Donating at any level, and you’ll receive free and discounted products from your favorite local brands, like Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Chinook Book, Portland Center Stage, Widmer Brothers, and more!

Give Guide also features Big Give Days. Donating a minimum of $10 to any organization on one of these days, and you have a chance to win a great incentive. The next Big Give Day is December 2nd, with a Bike Gallery Bike giveaway.

On top of that, you can also take place in the McMenamins Challenge! Nonprofits with the most individual donors 35 and under in each category will be awarded $1000!

Help make Portland a better place for the whole year round by giving a little extra this season. With incentives like these, everybody can celebrate the season!

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