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A grant will help the Community
Cycling Center continue and expand
their work in communities like Hacienda.
(Photos: CCC)

The northeast Portland based non profit Community Cycling Center has received a grant from the Bullitt Foundation for $25,000. The grant will be used to strengthen CCC’s ties to their community partners and continue their work in under-served neighborhoods.

The focus of the grant funds will be the creation of a new collaborative advocacy program called Communities in Motion. This program seeks to build on past successes working with the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT), community leaders from New Columbia and the Hacienda Community Development Corporation. Collaborative advocacy as a means of preventing problems and growing sustainable communities is a hallmark of the Bullitt Foundation’s granting process. (more...)

Do you remember?

Portland filmmaker Chad Berkley is making a film about the Community Cycling Center's awesome annual event, the Holiday Bike Drive. Remember Your First Bike? is slated for completion next spring but Berkley has already put together a trailer for the film and has just launched a Kickstarter page to help raise some funds to finish it up.

In the film, Berkley takes a behind the scenes look at how the magical 500 bike giveaway happens and interviews CCC volunteers and staffers for their perspectives. Berkley also includes interviews with notable Portlanders including Mayor Sam Adams and others. (more...)

Alison Hill Graves at a presentation
held in the Portland Building on
Thursday.
(Photo © J. Maus)

It's been over a year since the Community Cycling Center embarked on an effort to better understand why Portland's bike riding masses lack racial diversity.

In a story published here back in October, CCC executive director Alison Hill Graves said, "The people riding and making decisions about bicycles is a white, middle class group."
(more...)

There are always lots of
smiles at the Holiday Bike Drive.
(Photos © J. Maus)

This weekend is the Community Cycling Center's annual Holiday Bike Drive. This year the theme is "It takes a community" and it will be the most diverse group of participants the CCC has ever served.

According to the CCC's Director of Community and Programs Alison Hill Graves, they targeted outreach for the event at the same organizations they have met through their Understanding Barriers to Bicycling project. Those organizations include New Columbia, the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization, Self Enhancement, Inc., and others.
(more...)

The staff at Community Cycling Center, a 15 year old Portland-based nonprofit that aims to increase access to bicycling, has been doing some soul searching in the last few years.

In the process, community and programs director Alison Hill Graves says they started looking around the area they serve (a five-mile radius around their NE 17th and Alberta retail shop). "We saw a big divide in terms of who's riding bikes and who isn't."
(more...)

One of a series of posters
created for the campaign.
(Photos by Kim Oanh Nguyen)

Seeking to reshape the image that comes to mind when people think of "the bike community" or "bicyclists", the Northeast Portland-based Community Cycling Center has launched their "I Ride" awareness campaign.

So far, the campaign consists of a series of promotional posters and an upcoming video that asks a variety of Portlanders to finish the sentence "I ride _____."

According to CCC Director of Community and Programs Alison Hill Graves, the idea for the campaign was hatched last summer. In an email interview about the project, Graves said when they would bring up the terms "bicyclists" or "bicycle community" in meetings or at their retail shop and classes, the response caught their attention. (more...)

Seeing the neighborhood at biking speed.
- More images/Slideshow below-
(Photos © J. Maus)

Last Friday I spent the day with the Community Cycling Center's "Coasters" summer bike camp.

The camp is for kids 6-8 years old and the idea is to teach them how to ride on city streets, do basic bike maintenance (very basic), build confidence, show them around the neighborhood, and of course to just have fun.

My daughter is finally old enough to join so I went along with her on the final day of the week-long camp. After gathering at the CCC on Alberta and 17th, we rolled east via N. Going Ave. The street is slated to be a major bike boulevard and it's easy to see why. It's plenty wide, already has low traffic, and its just one block south of Alberta. Even biking with 13 kids, several of whom were fresh from the sidewalk and the watchful eyes of parents, was stress-free. (more...)

The CCC's retail location on
NE Alberta.
(Photo © J. Maus)

The northeast Portland-based Community Cycling Center has won a grant for a project to help them "understand cultural and economic barriers to bicycling."

According to a statement from the CCC, the project will help them perform a needs assessment to better understand the "unique cultural and economic barriers to bicycling encountered by minority and low-income community members."

The nearly $80,000 grant from Metro also comes with the expertise of Kristin Lensen, a consultant with Alta Planning + Design and Portland State University's Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation. (more...)

The CCC's retail shop at
NE Alberta and 17th.
(Photo © J. Maus)

The Bikes Belong Foundation has awarded the Northeast Portland based Community Cycling Center (CCC) a $10,000 grant.

The grant has been made through Bikes Belong's Paul David Clark Best Practices Grants program. That program -- which was established in honor of avid cyclist Paul Clark who was killed by a vehicle while riding his bike in 2005 -- makes awards to "exemplary organizations that are supporting their communities through bicycling, establishing innovative bike programs for young riders, and setting—and raising—the bicycle-advocacy bar." (more...)