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Bikes are back! I am pleased to announce Bike Lady Season 17 has arrived! In honor of St. Valentine, we are kicking off the Season of BIKE Love during the month of love.
THIS IS AN EXCITING TIME FOR BIKE LADY. We are reorganizing, refocusing, and building capacity and legacy so that we can serve more kids than ever before, and for many years to come. Covid threw us a wrench. We've taken that wrench and retooled! We haven’t made an official fundraising appeal since 2020, right before Covid hit.
BIKE LADY HIGHLIGHTS
We will soon share details about each of these items. Right now, we just want to give 1,024 kids in foster care their first new bike and deliver a bunch of them this SPRING!
No problem, right?
That’s our goal this year - to serve 1,024 youth in Ohio foster care during Year 2024. Starting now. Today. This second. I feel like we're starting all over on training wheels since Covid. We can do it, but only with YOU!
A February kick-off? Why now? Social workers tell us that while they love Christmas bikes, kids want bikes in the SPRING and SUMMER – warm weather, green grass, and sun splashing on their young faces. The kids want a chance at normalcy – to be like all the other kids on the block, out riding a bike.
Renewal. Repair. Growth. Spring. It’s the season of HOPE. And that’s the perfect season for us.
That means NOW is when we must place our Huffy order and quickly assemble the bikes to make a spring delivery possible. It’s near Valentine’s Day. Please share your love!
Skip the chocolate. Skip the roses. And GIVE BIKE LOVE instead! This is it. This our big annual 2024 #bikelove campaign. We need your funding starting right now.
It takes nearly $200-to provide each child a new bike, helmet, and lock. It’s a big goal to serve 1,024 kids, but with your help we can do it.
You’re TEAM BIKE LADY and you SHOW UP!
How many kids will YOU put on bikes? If it’s a Valentine gift, we will share your message of love on all our social media channels. We can call your soulmate to announce your gift. We can text your crush and share your love. We’ll ride our own bike over to propose marriage on your behalf! Even if it snows. Just tell us what it takes for you to generously share #bikelove.
Your gift matters because foster care is hard. Kids in care don't do anything wrong to enter the system. They are in foster care because someone has extensively hurt, neglected, or rejected them. Bikes hold promise. You fundamentally alter the trajectory of Ohio foster youth when you give to Bike Lady. When asked what their new bikes mean to them, the kids always say, "It means someone cares what happens to me. Someone loves me. It means hope.”
Springtime.
Simultaneously, our prison assembly program gives purposeful opportunity for inmates trying to make amends and achieve atonement, realizing who they were does not need define who they are becoming. Volunteering stirs empathy and compassion in the hearts of offenders.
Every bike you give changes at least two lives, giving a measure of freedom and well-being to both.
Please roll with us to achieve 1,024 for 2024. It’s soon Valentine’s Day. Can you give away some Bike Love today? I hope your answer is, “YES! YES! YES!” It's a bike. So simple, yet so powerful. Bike Love starts with you.
Please DONATE ONLINE!
Or mail a check to Bike Lady, Inc., PO Box 311, Blacklick, OH 43004
Bike Lady is a 501(c)(3) charity. Donations are tax-deductible as applicable by law
From my home to yours, Happy Valentine’s Day!
Love, Kate
Kate Koch | Founder & Board of Directors
PO Box 311 Blacklick, OH 43004 | T: 614.946.6463
Email: staff@bikelady.org | Web: www.bikelady.org
Kate Koch | Founder & Board of Directors
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