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Mission StatementThe mission of the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective is to promote cycling as an effective and sustainable form of transportation and as a cornerstone of a cleaner, healthier, and safer society. The Bicycle Collective provides refurbished bicycles and educa-tional programs to the community, focusing on children and lower income households.

Professional Services:Justin Shaw for invaluable CPA servicesDennis Dierks & Ric Wilkins for helping power our air compressorTim Bochnowski of MountainVelo for offering bike fit classesTim Watcke, Cory Molloy & Thayne Gregory for Construction Services

Sorenson Legacy FoundationGeorge S. and Dolores Dore Eccles FoundationR. Harold Burton FoundationBackcountry.comThe Mayor’s Bicycle Advisory CommitteeWells FargoTides FoundationStreamline IndustriesSalt City Sprints LLCWhole Foods

First Unitarian ChurchSteve CookUtah Community FoundationCycle Salt Lake CenturySLC Bicycle CoFriends of the Salt Lake City Public LibraryKent Knowley of Port O’ CallSteven L. SheffieldDave IltisWinston Inoway Design

Thank You!

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Bike Donations to low income familiesThe Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective continued in 2009 to provide services to more youth and more low income family members.

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Bikes for Goodwill OrganizationsGiving other non-profits the ability to provide transportationThis year we were able to give away more bikes than in 2008 and to date have donated over 600 bikes to low income local families. We would like this number to keep growing, and as such have been creative to establish sources for bike donations. Our strategy for 2010 includes setting up contracts with the local police departments. Through these partnerships the Collective would become the recipient of unclaimed bicycles in the valley.

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Earn-a-BikeYouth learning bike mechanics and confidenceWith leadership from our Youth Director, Krisha Maria Pessa, and with the help of 80 generous volunteers, over 250 kids became bike mechanics at the Collective’s community bike shop by building their bikes from scratch. In addition to learning bike mechanics, the children are mentored in time and resource management and many students become valuable mentors to their classmates. The “Earn-a-Bike” course was offered through partnerships with YouthCity, Boys & Girls Club, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and also seventh-grade students from Spectrum Academy with high-functioning autism and asperger’s syndrome. Each earned bike comes with safety education and a new helmet.

New Position: Youth DirectorThanks to the Utah Conservation Corps, an AmeriCorps program, Krisha Marie Pessa was hired as our first official Youth Director. Krisha was a perfect fit. As a mom she knew exactly what these kids and our program needed. She developed our existing programs by creating formal volunteer training, a course curriculum, and effectively created a bonafide, structured program with all the “fun” that has made the program so successful. Krisha also manages the Department of Workforce Services’ Job Skills Training required during the day.

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Trips for KidsReconnecting city youth with Utah’s mountains through mountain bikingTrips for Kids – Salt Lake City chapter, now in its second year, benefitted 126 participating kids with the help of over 20 adult and youth volunteers in 15 mountain bike trips to Bonneville Shoreline Trail, the Mormon Pioneer Trail, and Liberty Park. Trips for Kids opens up the world of cycling to at-risk youth through mountain bike trips, which include lessons in personal responsibility, achievement, environmental awareness, practical skills, and the simple act of having fun.

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New Position: Shop ManagerThanks to the Utah Conservation Corp, Calvert Cruz was hired as the first official Shop Manager. In addition to working at Guthrie Bicycle, Cal has a degree in Economics and has been an active volunteer since 2005. He brought energy and expertise to the Community Bike Shop during a critical building year. The shop is more efficient than ever thanks to Cal’s foresight and leadership. In 2010, Cal is going to indulge another passion, and become a full-time student of music. We wish him the best of luck.

Community Bike ShopProviding Tools & Mechanical Expertise2009 was a major year for the community bike shop, with significant efforts to improve infrastructure, ensuring our long-term success. With a full-time shop manager, improved organization, and thirty regular “key list volunteers”, the community bike shop continued with further developments in efficiency and service. The shop was open to the public Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, while Monday nights were reserved for volunteers to refurbish bikes for donation and re-sale. Achievements included:

A partnership with the Department of Workforce Services to provide job skills • training to those on state assistance

The construction of an office to conserve energy and provide a quiet working • space

Proper building insulation to lower the utility bills•

Implementation of a point-of-sale (POS) system to track cost and expenses•

The well attended women’s-only night every month•

Very popular mechanics classes - FREE Park Tool School mechanics training • for the first hour of Monday’s Volunteer Night.

“It’s one of the most enjoyable things I’ve done, teaching these classes.”

– Doug Openshaw, LCI, Commuter Master Class

Instructor

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Tim Bochnowski with MountainVelo teaches an intro to bike fit class at the Collective.

Community Bike ShopFree bike repair classesThe Collective offered FREE lessons from the Park Tool School for the first hour of each Monday Volunteer Night at the Community Bike Shop. Topics included:

tubes and tires•

wheel truing•

pedals, cranks, and bottom bracket•

chains•

derailluer systems•

brake systems•

headsets•

hubs, rear sprockets•

OutreachBicycle Benefits www.bicyclebenefits.orgGet a sticker. Put it on your helmet. Bike and save!

International Bicycle Film Festival (BFF) www.bicyclefilmfestival.comCelebrating the bicycle through music, art and film

In the past we have partnered with the BFF to offer a movie night under the name Pedal Pusher Film Festival. The event had seven showings at a proper theater and it was a huge success, with more people and fundraising revenue than ever before.

The most popular film was Where are you go? by Brian Vernor and Benny Zenga. The film docu-

mented their incredible and scenic view of Africa and its people as they road from Cairo to Cape town in the Tour d’Afrique.

We look forward to seeing local film maker Davey Davis show his film, The Tale of Don Giovanni: That Indomitable Hipster in the 2010 BFF. The Collective was an in-kind sponsor.

Thanks to some of the greatest snow on earth, we were very luck to have the founder of the Bicycle Benefits program, Ian Klepetar, come out to Salt Lake City and expand these wonderful “deals on two wheels” to 40 more locations across the valley.

Inspired by the original Pedal Pass program started in Salt Lake City, the Saratoga Healthy Transporta-tion Network in New York founded Bicycle Benefits. This program is designed to reward those commit-ted to commuting by bike and encourage new trips

by bicycle. Participating businesses offer a discount (or some benefit) to anyone who rides their bike with the helmet sticker. Not only does this pro-gram create an incentive for folks to ride their bikes, the reflective bicycle benefi ts sticker turns bicycle helmets into a reward pass—a positive reinforce-ment for bicycle safety. Each participating business displays a Bicycle Benefits window decal, is listed in the online directory, and distributes the helmet stickers.

BFF movie: Where are you go?

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Valet Bike ParkingKeeping your bike safe while you enjoy the eventFor our seventh year running, the Bike Collective volunteers provided free bike valet services at the downtown farmer’s market, the Gallivan Twilight Concert Series, and other community events such as the Utah Arts Festival and the Outdoor Retailers Show.

New LocationsThe Collective helped create the Bike Collective Network or BCN (www.bikecollectives.org) in 2006, including setting up an annual advocacy booth at the Interbike Bicycle Trade Show in Las Vegas (www.interbike.com). The mission of the Bike Collective Network is to strengthen and encourage communication and resource sharing between existing and future community bike shops. Collectively we can improve a bigger wheel as opposed to re-inventing smaller ones.

In the beginning of the BCN, less than 40 organizations existed nationwide. Three years later there are now over 200 organizations sharing and documenting their experiences, many of them brand new. It was only fitting that more communities in Utah developed Bike Collectives.Three new locations in 2009:

The • Ogden Bicycle Collective (www.ogdenbikecollective.org) opened up their doors under the guidance of League Cycling Instructor (LCI) Josh Jones. Major bicycle and part distributor Quality Bicycle Products (QBP) committed to pay for a full-time Ameri-Corps staff in 2010.

Alumni Collective board member and LCI Clinton Watson partnered with the • Day-Riv-erside Library (1575 West 1000 North , SLC) to create a Collective satellite in the Rose Park area. With a complete toolset, they had 20 weekly workshops that served over 200 local youth.

The • University of Utah Bike Collective (www.ubike.org), for which the Collective serves as a Bennion Center Community Partner, secured Building 171 across Central Campus Drive from the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

Besides a common vision, each location shares non-financial resources such as organizational, volunteer, graphic design, printing, and bulk orders through bicycle part distributors.

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2010 Goals

Create bicyclists and youth bike mechanics through the Earn-A-Bike and Trips for Kids programs • in Salt Lake and Ogden. Over 400 kids will participate.

Support local refugee and disadvantaged youth and their families by providing • over 350 refurbished bicycles through partnerships with other goodwill organizations.

Develop Valet Bike Parking into self sustaining program with paid coordinators.•

Facilitate and support local bike advocacy by building partnerships with cities, county, and other • NGOs, including organizational support for the Utah Bike Summit www.utahbikesummit.com

Build reliable and sustainable support by recruiting • 100 new shop members and 20 new corporate sponsors. To become a member: www.slcbikecollective.org/donate

Provide safety education to cyclists in our community through Leag ue Cycling Instructor (LCI) • taught commuter courses in the spring.

Offer the Park Tool School every Monday to train volunteer mechanics and the general public.•

Engage schools to offer safe cycling instruction to their students, and host a weekend seminars • to train new League Cycling Instructors (LCIs).

Work with the Public Library system to create a mobile workshop/community bike shop. •

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2009 Financial Statement

Total Income

Grants $ 35,570

Shop $ 59,121

Fundraiser (BFF) $ 3,832

Advocacy Donations $ 9,236

Donations for services $ 3,197

Total $ 110,957

Total Expense

Cost of Goods $ 1,052

RentUtilities $ 12,592

Wages $ 77,724

Tools/shop supplies $ 31,542

Insurance $ 2,513

Operations $ 3,463

Fundraiser 9BFF) $ 2,475

Total $131,362

NET ($20,405)

Grant Support Received

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Community Bike Shop2312 South West TempleSalt Lake City, UT 84115Phone: 801-FAT-BIKE (328-2453)Fax: 801-466-3856

Mailing AddressP.O. Box 2400Salt Lake City, UT 84110

www.slcbikecollective.org

Board of Directors Jamie Cowen

Nathan Flaim

Adam Cunningham

Russ Hopkins

Patrick Beecroft

Kevin Dwyer

David Cole

Jason Bultman

StaffJonathan Morrison, Executive Director

Krisha Marie Pessa, Education Director

Gary Hurst, Shop Manager