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Wheels for Winners

Serving Madison and Dane County since 1992, WFW's earn-a-bike program provides refurbished bicycles primarily to high school and younger children who perform 15 hours of community service. In each last four years, we have furnished an average of 140 earners with bikes, helmets and locks.  As an all volunteer organization, we have 12 mechanics, 8 board members, and a part-time office manager who annually contribute over 1500 hours to refurbish over 200 bikes, fit bikes for earners, and run the organization  The combined volunteer service of our bike earners and our unpaid staff exceeds 3,800 hours annually.   In the last four years, WFW has partnered about 80 community centers, school groups and Dane County organizations to get bikes into the hands of deserving kids (see the attached list of partners).  Without these groups, we would be unable to identify kids in need and find community service opportunities for kids to earn bikes.    For our partners, the opportunity to earn-a-bike offers tangible support for their programming.  Here are two recent examples: Leopold School incorporated our program into its service learning program, and Bayview Community Center used our program to.

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