We’ve consulted with ACTION-Housing before on bike parking in their buildings and we were able to pull together a larger scale project with help from Cannondale and some grant funding. 

Our Education Department, in partnership with staff from Action Housing, were able to get bikes for fifteen young adults aging out of the foster care system and into transitional housing with the My Place program at Action Housing. This means we changed lives by providing them with safe, reliable transportation that they can repair themselves and gave them the knowledge they need to do that. This extends their range of mobility throughout the city and, in turn, their freedom. 

Our contacts at Cannondale have been supportive of BikePGH in a variety of ways throughout our relationship. This year, we approached them with our plans for the My Place program and they jumped on the opportunity to help with deeply discounted bikes, free helmets, and a handful of other commuter necessities. They also donated multitools and pumps to the WMNBikePGH GAP Campout and the Summit. And our asks of them are always met with the “Let me see what we can do” attitude that nonprofits love in a sponsor. 

BikePGH has always had a close relationship with Millie’s, from WMNBikePGH rides to the shop, to the treats during our Virtual PedalPGH in 2020, and having the Millie’s Truck Girls at the Finish Line Festival whenever we can. We were thrilled when the opportunity came this year that they not only wanted to sponsor the map, but we also had an ice cream collaboration available in scoop shops. And it was delicious — if you didn’t get a chance to try Rocky Ride this spring, it’ll be back in shops again Spring 2024!

Open Up’s mission is to teach mindfulness tools through movement practices and interactive arts while centering people living with disabilities. We applaud their dedication to creating inclusive spaces that meet each person where they are and bring the joy of movement to all who enter their studio, and any space their instructors enter. Specifically with BikePGH, Open Up has hosted the absolutely most welcoming and calm and patient yoga nights for our WMNBikePGH Program, to keep our bodies moving through the winter months, and has provided the Good Morning Yoga at the WMNBikePGH Summit.

Velo.ai began as a “pandemic passion project” responding to the need for something to protect the more vulnerable road users. And they’ve been sponsoring BikePGH since before they began recruiting Beta Testers. Now, CoPilot, the smart bike lights that developed as a result of their data collection and prototypes, is amassing a wait list of eager consumers, ready for the first lights to ship imminently!