Giving Tuesday

Making every day count

Photo Credit: Side A Photography

We usually like to share the highlight reel - big wins, happy moments, times when lots of us are together and celebrating. This Giving Tuesday, we wanted to share the everyday work that Bikemore does fundamentally change the way that our city thinks about our streets and public space.

Changing entrenched systems doesn't happen overnight; while you may have heard about our Lake2Lake project or Cranksgiving, we’ve also…

  • Spoke to over 250 residents about traffic-calming and bike infrastructure at 31 Mobile Bike Shops

  • Participated in over 200 hours of Community Meetings to support infrastructure projects in neighborhoods around Baltimore

  • Participated in over 100 hours of Baltimore City Dept. of Transportation and Dept. of Planning meetings

  • Supported over $100 million in transit, bike, and other planning grant awards

  • Attended 250+ hours of statewide transportation coalition meetings to pass the Transit Safety & Investment Action, a bill for the largest investment in MTA in generations

This is the work we do regularly. We show up to make sure there's always a voice to advocate for equitable, accessible, and transformative Complete Streets infrastructure. And to make it possible, we need your regular support. 

The most sustainable way to support Bikemore is to set up a monthly donation. If just 366 people started a donation today, you would collectively fund one third of our annual budget. You would make Bikemore possible.

We’re really proud of our everyday work, because it means that we’re planting seeds in communities throughout Baltimore -- and that’s where true change happens.

Donations made through this form provide us unrestricted funding of our advocacy work, through our 501(c)(4) Bikemore in Action and are not tax-deductible. To make a charitable donation that may be tax-deductible, click here.

#GivingTuesday 2015

A few weeks ago, during the launch of our #IBikeIVote Campaign, in front of 20 candidates for office and 200 Bikemore members we announced an exciting challenge from Bikemore board member Tim Adams. Last year, Tim was in a serious bike crash that left him with eighteen pieces of titanium in his body to repair his injuries. He credits the bicycling community in Baltimore for giving his family the emotional support they needed to recover from such a traumatic event. Eighteen is now Tim's lucky number, and the inspiration for his challenge to match up to $9K in individual donations through the end of the year--yielding $18K in operating support for Bikemore. We're asking our supporters to give generously on 12/1, knowing that their donations will be doubled! That is twice as many resources to build a force for biking in Baltimore.

This year Bikemore: 

  • Hired a full time Executive Director and secured enough funding to hire a second part time staff member. 
  • Advocated for the creation of the Mayor's Bicycle Advisory Commission 
  • Hosted 5 community bike rides attracting over 200 attendees. 
  • Launched a successful #ibikeivote campaign with 20 candidates and over 200 attendees at our kick off event to encourage candidates to make active transportation a top campaign priority. 
  • Partnered with Rails to Trails to bring $140K in capacity building dollars to Baltimore City to advocate for better and more connected trail systems. 
  • Advocated for the installation of the Roland Avenue Cycletrack 
  • Saw an increase in bike parking, with over 30 city racks installed this fall. 

Next year we plan to do EVEN MORE with YOUR HELP! CLICK HERE to make a donation or become a member today! 

So please share with others why you support better biking in Baltimore, and join us next Tuesday, 12/1 to help us raise $9K in end of year individual donations.