In This Month's News:

1.Late Summer Call for Volunteers & 700 Youth Participant Mark Reached!

2. Andy B's Ride Report

3.Volunteer Shop Night: August 12th from 4-8 p.m

4. TFKB is Hiring! Seeking Ride Leader for Boulder Program

5. REI Awards Sasquatch Size Grant to TFKD/B!

Late Summer Call for Volunteers & 700 Youth Participant Mark Reached!

My "teacher type" friends are talking about getting their classrooms back in order before the coming student invasions. It's getting dark before 9 p.m. It feels like summer is winding down but we still need volunteer support to finish off our busiest summer ride season ever!

TFKD/B completed our 81st ride of the year today with Urban Peak, a program for homeless youth and eclipsed the 700 youth participant mark for 2010.  We will certainly pass our annual participation record (729 youth participants in '09) by the end of the month, if not by the end of this week!

Click here to see the Late Summer Ride schedule and sign up to volunteer!

or contact Andy Brannon to sign up for a specific ride: abrannon@tripsforkidsdenver.org or 303-919-4259

Andy B's Ride Report: Fresh Trail and Familiar Faces

It's been an amazing riding season for Trips for Kids Denver/Boulder! Once we created the TFK Boulder Chapter, the expansion immediately ran north along to the Front Range to include groups from Longmont and Fort Collins. Great new TFKB partners like Colorado Youth Program and Reflections for Youth have inspired us to seek out new trails for our mountain biking adventures. For the first time this season, we held rides at Camp Tahosa near Ward (photo above) and at Lory State Park in Fort Collins. Both locations feature stunning scenery and are perfect to help us share the joys of mountain biking in Colorado with fantastic groups of great kids.

A three day mountain bike camping trip was held June 21st, 22nd and 23rd in partnership with Boulder Inner City Outings and...Click to read on>>

Volunteer Shop Night: August 12th from 4-8 pm.

The focus of the August Shop Night: prepare for our big shop sale on August 21st.  We need to sort through our big o' pile of donated bikes, set aside the bikes for our fall earn-a-bike program, pull out the junkers, and fix up the adult and child size bikes for sale.

We'll also need a hand from non-bike tech folks (like me!) sorting and pricing our stock of donated cycling gear and clothing for the sale.

Volunteer Shop Night:

August 12th from 4pm -8pm
2840 S Elati St, Englewood, CO 80110

Please contact Andy Brannon if you can lend a hand or just show up! 303-919-4259 or abrannon@tripsforkidsdenver.org

TFKB is Hiring! Seeking Ride Leader for Boulder Program

Thanks to the support of REI (see below) and others, TFK Boulder is hiring a part-time Ride Leader!  We're looking for an enthusiastic, high energy individual, with a knack for coaching young people, a passion for cycling and a flexible schedule to join the TFK Boulder team.

Click here for TFK Boulder Ride Leader position details>>

Qualified candidates may send a resume and letter of interest to Andrew Goodwillie, TFKD/B Executive Director: agood@tripsforkidsdenver.org

REI Awards Sasquatch Size Grant to TFKD/B:  

$15,000 will fund Ride program & help hire Boulder Ride Leader

Thanks to the staff at the Lakewood, Westminster, Englewood, and Boulder REI stores for their support of TFK this year and for giving our grant application a vote of support.

This is huge! Thank you!

See a complete list of TFKD/B sponsors>>