fundraising

by Tom and Tiffany, WABA Members

We need your help to make this region a safer place, where all our children can ride their bikes safely.

This December, the WABA community stepped up like never before to build a more inclusive, better connected region. Thank you.

We hope you and all your friends come to the Tour de Fat on Saturday and help us raise support for better bicycling!

WABA’s Board of Directors is looking for people with a passion to help make the Washington area a safer and more welcoming environment for people using bikes. To this end, the WABA Board Nominating Committee is searching for director candidates with strong leadership skills and experience in helping non-profit organizations execute strategy and development plans. […]

Don’t forget that just 45 years ago we had zero miles of bike trails. 20 years ago we had zero miles of bike lanes. Ten years ago most of us had never heard of bikeshare. Five years ago we had only one protected bike lane. And three years ago, WABA didn’t have a full-time staff person dedicated to advocacy. Our progress is real.

I tried to capture the spirit of biking in our region. And by extension, how important bike advocacy work is to ensuring greater joy. In all seasons. In all parts of the region. By all types of people. On all types of bikes.

2016 was a big year for little WABA. This year your support helped us: double our adult learn to ride classes, Host our second BikeCamp! where campers biked, volunteered, and adventured around DC …

WABA would like to give a great big bicycle thank you to EYA for their support of better bicycling, their title sponsorship of The 2016 Cider Ride, and for bringing out an awesome EYA team to ride along with us last weekend on the Cider Ride.

We wanted to tell you about the award-winning programs you support (some of which have been replicated across the country and world).

Quick update: we’re 50% of the way to having enough money to build the Alexandria Bike Campus. Thank you!

WABA’s board of directors is once again looking for people with a passion to help make the Washington area a safer and more welcoming environment for people using bikes.

Even with a cold drizzle off and on throughout the day, our partnership with the Bethesda Whole Foods Market really warmed us up! When the receipts were totaled, Whole Foods Bethesda donated a whopping $4992 to WABA. We are so thankful for their generous financial support. Besides the donation it was great to visit with […]

Plan your grocery shopping accordingly: on Wednesday, April 8th, WABA will receive 5% of the day’s total receipts from Whole Foods in Bethesda.

UPDATE: We did it! Thanks to everyone who contributed!   We’re a 77% of the way to our $10,000 goal thanks to supporters like you! We have big plans for the Women & Bicycles program this year. Watch Nelle’s  video to see how your $10 helps fund a part-time coordinator run 80+ events and recruit and train 50+ […]

Thanks to the more than 200 people who have already donated to our Women & Bicycles fundraiser, we’re two thirds of the way to our $10,000 goal! Click here to donate soon. Our fundraiser ends tomorrow at midnight! In 2013 our ten Roll Models shared their experience and expertise with 130 women in their lives. Last year a new group of Roll Models […]

We’re nearly halfway to our $10,000 fundraising goal!  Click here to chip in your $10 today and help us grow our cycling sisterhood in 2015. Women & Bicycles is a uniquely diverse community that comes together to share skills. We bring out our friends and teach and learn and laugh and bike and eat and sometimes we can squeeze […]

Ready to donate? Click here to grow our program. Hurry though, we’re only fundraising til next Tuesday! Your donation will help us bring on a part-time coordinator to run our monthly rides, workshops and socials, and make our communications even better. Most importantly, your contribution strengthens the heart and soul of our program: Roll Models! We recruit and train these […]

Thank you to all those who rode, donated, or sponsored the Hains Point 100. WABA is so grateful.

If you haven’t attempted to bike 33 continuous laps around Hains Point, then the Hains Point 100 is the best time to try!

ARTCRANK was a blast! Here are a few photos in case you missed the party.

This is part of our Women & Bicycles blog series,  part of WABA’s initiative to build a stronger women’s bike community and get more women on bikes.  These posts aren’t exclusive to women, but they’re produced with and through the Women & Bicycles’ programming. Click here to learn more and get involved.   Last week Team […]

Join WABA staff tonight, Wednesday May 21 at 6 p.m. at the WABA office (2599 Ontario Road NW) to talk 2014 Climate Ride.  We’ll share stories, tips and give you a rundown on the most fun way to raise money for WABA and along the way, awareness for climate change!  We’ll provide the beer and […]

Will you be at WABA’s first-ever Sadie Hawkins Dance this Friday? It’s a fundraiser for our much-loved, super-successful, absolutely awesome Women & Bicycles program. If you liked Bike Prom, you’ll love Sadie Hawkins. You can also support the Women & Bicycles program by buying stuff! We’ve got reflective bands and American Apparel T-shirts, both branded with the program’s […]

Will you be at WABA’s first-ever Sadie Hawkins Dance this Friday? It’s a fundraiser for our much-loved, super-successful, absolutely awesome Women & Bicycles program. If you liked Bike Prom, you’ll love Sadie Hawkins. In addition to free pizza, $3 beers, DJs spinning sweet jams, contests, games, and a raffle, there will be goldsprints! Thanks to Sciathan Productions, you’ll […]

Join WABA next Friday, March 14th in celebrating the one-year anniversary of our Women & Bicycles Program. We’ve replaced Bike Prom with a raucous evening of festivities. All funds go to support the 2014 Women & Bicycles’ season of workshops, meetups, rides, and Roll Models to inspire more women to bike. This is a co-ed […]

If you’re a WABA member, you recently received in the mail an appeal letter from us. We send several appeal letters yearly to keep you up to date on what we’re doing and let you know what your membership dollars and donations are funding. For those of you who may not have received the letter, […]

Tomorrow, WABA’s development coordinator Gina Arlotto will begin the Climate Ride, a five-day charity ride from New York City to D.C. Gina is leading Team WABA, a group of riders contributing 100 percent of their fundraising to support our advocacy work. The 300-mile route takes Team WABA and other Climate Riders from Brooklyn to D.C., […]

You’ve likely heard that WABA has a team participating in the Climate Ride this September. Over 200 bicyclists will ride from New York City to D.C. from Sept. 21 to 25. Team WABA is riding with more than 47 people who are donating all or some portion of their fundraising directly to our advocacy efforts! […]

People of 2012, Greetings from the year 2112, cyclonauts. We’re on a mission to get your circuits jamming and set your thrusters on overdrive. You, and only you, can help DC Bike to the Future! Join WABA for this year’s Bike Prom, presented by New Belgium Brewing. This is your once-in-a-century opportunity to get intergalactic […]

NEXT SATURDAY, June 16th, The New Belgium Brewing Company, makers of Fat Tire Ale, and WABA are hosting the biggest, most fanciful, bicycle celebration of all time. And for the first time ever it’s coming to DC! We’re going to celebrate bikes, make some new friends, and sip on a couple of cold, Rocky Mountain barley […]