AMERICAN RIVER BIKE PATROL

                                            This year's Big Day of Giving is Thursday, May 2!

The American River Bike Patrol and other local nonprofits are gearing up for this year's Big Day of Giving event, the capital area’s day-long celebration of local philanthropy that is powered by GivingEdge and brought to our community for the past decade by the Sacramento Region Community Foundation. Please mark your calendars for Thursday, May 2, and join the movement that helps local community-serving organizations raise critical funds each year!

 

BDOG donations to the bike patrol will be dedicated to underwriting the cost of training, NSP and CPR certifications and outfitting patrollers and their equipment for the Patrol, as well as support our safe cycling/walking programs and our Junior Patroller program. Our objective is to make the patrol self-sustaining without cost to its members. We also seek to make the patrol affordable to patrollers who otherwise couldn’t join us and, thereby, better reflect our American River Parkway users.

To reach those goals, involvement and support of our ARBP Patrollers is requested. Here are ways you can help:

• Spread the word – send an email, text and/or post (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) with news of BDOG, encouraging your friends, family and coworkers to visit the ARBP BDOG page to donate.

• Matching grants – to boost donations, help raise matching grants where every dollar donated by an individual, company or organization is matched by a major donor up to a certain amount. Bike clubs, bike shops, bike manufacturers, companies you know, health organizations and individuals can all offer matching grants of any amount from small to large.

• Pledge drives – have some FUN; invite your friends, family and other cyclists or coworkers to pledge one dollar, $5, or $10 for every mile you patrol from April 1 through the big day of giving on May 4. Donations can be limited to a set dollar amount.

• Personal donations – we welcome any and all of our patrollers to donate, if you can help. Even better, offer a donation that can be used in the matching grants program, where you authorize us to include your amount in a matching grants program, to be used to match other donations from potential donors inspired by a one-to-one match by your donation.

To donate, go to: https://www.bigdayofgiving.org/donate/American-River-Bike-Patrol.

 

For more information on Big Day of Giving and how you can help, contact ARBP board member Tim Viall, tviall@msn.com or call 209.969.3875.

Please encourage friends, family and business cohorts to support the ARBP.

 

Thanks for your support and generosity!