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- EIN 04-3138753
- (617) 522-0222
- 284 Amory St Roxbury MA 02130-2317 USA
- www.bikesnotbombs.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Children & Youth, Environment, Job Training, Recycling, Unknown, Youth Development
Mission: Bikes not bombs uses the bicycle as a vehicle for social change. The organization reclaims thousands of bicycles each year, and creates local and global programs that provide skill development, jobs, and sustainable transportation. The organizations programs mobilize youth and adults to be leaders in community transformation.
Programs: Vocational training/bike shop: the vocational training/bike shop program reconditions and sells some of the donated bikes that the organization receives, employing many graduates of its programs. The shop's profit from the bicycle sales, parts sales, and repairs goes towards funding the organization's youth and international work providing a reliable and sustainable source of earned income. The bike shop offers free and low-cost workshops on bicycle maintenance and repair, and an 80-hour vocational training program for young apprentices.
youth programs: more than 3,500 young people have participated in bikes not bombs' youth leadership and cycling programs, which teach mechanics and safe urban riding, job skills, and environmental and social justice. By providing quality after-school programming to youth, bikes not bombs engages directly with the young people of jamaica plain, dorchester, roxbury and mattapan. In earn-a-bike and girls in action, bikes not bombs' flagship out-of-school learning and earning programs for youth aged 1218, students select and completely overhaul a bike to keep as their own.
education and outreach: bike not bombs education and outreach program coordinates all of the organization's communications with supporters and volunteers (monthly e-news, social media, etc. ) and organizes a number of events and programs (including the annual bike-a-thon) that engage people in bikes not bomb's work and programs.