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  • Girls Bike Club (Chicago project of West Town Bikes)girls-bike-club
  • Biking Public Project, A minority bike coalition (NYC) – A new project to engage more women, minorities and delivery cyclists into the local and national advocacy conversation.
  • WE Bike – Women’s Empowerment in Bicycling (NYC) – Aims to break down the barriers for women and transgender bike riders by offering social rides, training rides, free mechanics classes and ride scholarships.
  • Chain Reaction Mobile Bike Shop (Youth run project at Bikes Not Bombs in Boston)

Some New Leaders Emerged from YBS:

  • 2011 Youth Bike Summit Keynote Speaker Kimberly White was invited to be a Keynote Speaker at the Safe Routes to School Conference in Minneapolis, MN
  • 2012 Youth Bike Summit Keynote Speaker Alpha Barry introduced Congresswoman Nydia Velasquez at her inauguration ceremony in New York, NYchain-reaction
  • 2013 Youth Bike Summit Keynote Speaker Devlin Chen was invited to join the League of American Bicyclists Equity Advisory Council (EAC). Through an internship at The League, she created a EAC Report and a survey that addresses what motivates and challenges youth to ride bikes. Devlynn is now organizing a delegation from Handlebar, her college bike club, to attend the YBS 2014.

Some New Initiatives Inspired by YBS:

  • Bikerowave launched a youth bike mechanics program in their bike co-op in Los Angeles, CAwe-bike
  • After attending a workshop called Youth Governance by Bike Works in Seattle, Phoenix Bikes in Arlington, VA added youth to their Board of Directors
  • Bikes Not Bombs led a Skype exchange between participants at the Youth Bike Summit and World Bicycle Forum in Brazil
  • Parsons The New School launched a Pilot Pre-college Credit Program, where 8 high school students earning college credit for their participation in the Youth Bike Summit and related projects in their local communities. This program is sponsored by Parsons The New School and Rails-to-Trails Conservancy.

Impacts of YBS Beyond the United States:

  • Youth Bike Summits were held in Canada and England, led by attendees of the Youth Bike Summit.

Nationally

  • Alliance for Biking and Walking
  • Alta, CitiBike
  • Fast Company
  • International Mountain Bicycling Association
  • League of American Bicyclists
  • Major Taylor Association
  • National Interscholastic Cycling Association
  • Planet Bike
  • Rails to Trails
  • Safe Routes to School
  • SRA – Urban Cyclist Worldwide
  • USA Cycling Association

New York

  • Affinity Cycles
  • Alliance for Climate Education
  • Ali Forney Center
  • Asian Americans for Equality
  • Batala NY
  • Bicycle Habitat
  • Bike and Roll
  • Bike New York
  • Biking Public Project
  • Bronxville High School
  • Brooklyn District Public Health Office
  • Brooklyn Greenway Initiative
  • Brooklyn Bike Park
  • CAMBA Collegiate Express
  • Coalition High School
  • Children’s Aid Society
  • City Atlas
  • CYCLE Kids
  • Eastern Mountain Sports
  • El Puente Academy
  • Eleanor’s
  • Exploring Paths
  • Five Borough Bicycle Club
  • Flatbush Promise Neighborhood
  • Good Old Lower East Side
  • Green Map System
  • Groundswell
  • Henry Street Settlement
  • Hester Street Collaborative
  • Hostelling International
  • ioby
  • I Challenge Myself
  • InTandem
  • International High School Union Square
  • Jacob Riis Settlement
  • JM Kaplan Fund
  • Lily Auchincloss Foundation
  • Local Spokes
  • Mathis-Pfohl Foundation
  • Museum of the City of New York
  • North Star Fund
  • New York Cycle Club
  • The New School
  • New York City Council
  • NY High School Cycling League
  • NYC Community Learning Schools Initiative
  • NYC Dept of Education
  • NYC Dept of Health & Mental Hygiene
  • NYC Department of Transportation
  • Open Plans
  • Park Slope Neighbors
  • Partnerships for Parks
  • P.E.A.C.E., Positive Entertainment And Creative Education
  • Recycle-A-Bicycle
  • Rockaway Waterfront Alliance
  • Rude Mechanical Orchestra
  • Shut NYC
  • Star Track High School
  • Staten Island Bicycling Club
  • Streetfilms
  • Streetsblog
  • Street Kings
  • Times Up!
  • Transportation Alternatives
  • Trips for Kids
  • Two Bridges Neighborhood Council
  • Velo City
  • Velojoy
  • WE Bike
  • Woodhull Hospital
  • Troy Bike Rescue, Troy, NY

Arizona

  • BICAS, Tucson, AZ
  • Pima County Bicycle Ambassadors

California

  • Bikerowave Community Bicycle Shop, Los Angeles, CA
  • Community Solutions, Los Angeles, CA
  • Cycles of Change, Oakland, CA
  • Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, Los Angeles, CA
  • Pedal Born Pictures, Berkley, CA
  • Richmond Spokes, Richmond, CA
  • Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition, Santa Barbara, CA
  • Santa Barbara Middle School, Santa Barbara, CA
  • Waterside Workshops, Berkeley, CA

Connecticut

  • CT Cycling Advancement High School Program

DC

  • Washington Area Bicycling Association (WABA)

Delaware

  • Urban Bike Project of Wilmington, Wilmington, DE

Georgia

  • Atlanta Bicycle Coalition, Atlanta, GA
  • Cycles and Change, Atlanta, GA

Illinois

  • Active Transportation Alliance, Chicago, IL
  • Lane Tech High School, Chicago, IL
  • MGR Youth Empowerment, Chicago, IL
  • The Bloomington Community Bike Project, Bloomington, IL
  • Red, Bike, and Green, Chicago, IL
  • West Town Bikes, Chicago, IL

Indiana

  • Freewheelin’ Community Bikes, Indianapolis, IN

Maine

  • Bicycle Coalition of Maine, Portland, ME
  • Community Bicycling Center, Biddeford, ME
  • Camp Ketcha, Portland, ME

Maryland

  • Bike Maryland, Baltimore, MD
  • Bikes for the World, Takoma Park, MD
  • Bikemore, Baltimore, MD

Massachusetts

  • Asian American Resource Center, Dorchester, MA
  • Bikes Not Bombs, Boston, MA
  • Boston Bicyclists Union, Boston, MA
  • City of Boston, MA
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  • Smith College Bike Kitchen, Northampton, MA
  • URS Corporation/MassRIDES

Michigan

  • The Hub of Detroit, Detroit, MI

Minnesota

  • Cycles for Change, St. Paul, MN
  • Full Cycle, Minneapolis, MN

Missouri

  • Bicycle Works, St. Louis, MO

New Jersey

  • Rutgers University
  • Second Life Bikes, Asbury Park, NJ
  • TransOptions, Montclair, NJ
  • YMCA, Madison, NJ

New Mexico

  • City of Albuquerque, NM
  • Esperanza Community Bike Shop

North Carolina

  • ReCYCLEry, Carrboro, NC
  • Spoke’n Revolutions, Chapel Hill, NC

Oregon

  • Bicycle Transportation Alliance, Portland, OR
  • Community Cycling Center, Portland, OR
  • Janus Youth, Portland, OR

Pennsylvania

  • Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa
  • Bike Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Community Bike Works, Allentown, PA
  • Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
  • Free Ride, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Neighborhood Bike Works, Philadelphia, PA
  • OTB BIcycle Cafe, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Penn State University, State College, PA

Rhode Island

  • Bike Newport, Newport, RI

Texas

  • Mercy Street, Dallas, TX

Utah

  • Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective

Vermont

  • Bike Recycle, Burlington, VT
  • City Of Burlington Community and Economic Development Office
  • Local Motion, Burlington, VT
  • One Revolution Compost, Burlington, VT

Virginia

  • Phoenix Bikes, Arlington, VA
  • VeloCity Bike Coop, VA

Washington

  • Bicycle Alliance of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • Bike Works, Seattle, WA
  • Cascade Bicycle Club, Seattle, WA
  • Intercity Transit, Olympia, WA

Wisconsin

  • Milwaukee Bicycle Works, Milwaukee, WI

Austria

  • Vienna Transport Strategies

Canada

  • Charlie’s Freewheels, Toronto, Canada
  • Share the Road Cycling Coalition, Ottawa, ON

United Kingdom

  • Youth Parliament, East Midlands & Youth Parliament, Leicester

Colombia

  • City of Bogota