FCCB was thrilled to work with Broke Down Bike Club, Hilltop Tavern, and New Belgium Brewing Company to staff a community tent in front of Hilltop Tavern for Cyclouvia 2015 on Frankfort Avenue on Sunday, April 19, 2015.
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Have you friends-of-nonprofits heard of changetheworld.org???

Seriously, spread the word about this company, it’s so awesome. What they do is connect nonprofits that need technical help with university students who need real-world projects.
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Our beloved Seth Short, who has been dispensing bike fixing wisdom weekly over the last year, has moved onto greener $$$ pastures as a fulltime paid mechanic with the awesome Parkside Bikes. Congrats and gratitude to Seth for being amazing!!

We’re looking for someone to fill Seth’s big shoes (seriously though, he’s not a little fella..) as our Wednesday night  master of mechanics.
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FCCBikeWorks &  YouthBuild welcomed spring with a services and skills swap.

YouthBuild donated a 250 gallon water collection tank to drain the water off the roofs, and its environmental education class students came by to install it. Looking forward to flowers, not flooding, in the courtyard!
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Update: BIG congrats to the Pedal Power Project & many other volunteers for pulling off a wonderful donation day! There were many awesome sights in a few short hours – the trailers and trucks loaded with bikes, the swarms of volunteers who carried them inside for distribution, and the swarms of refugees who carried them back out for keeps…. Here are a few favorites…
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Louisville’s most fashionable bikers turned it out at the 2015 Tartan & Tweed Ride!

John Paul (john paul / design), stellar event organizer and photographer, has gathered his best shots here. Check out the little appetizer below.
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Thanks to the Paula Nye Memorial Educational Grant, we’re getting certified in CRP / First Aid /AED  so we can take good care of our shop visitors!
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Thanks to Changetheworld.org, which pairs university and nonprofit partners, we will soon have the professional prospectus and pitch presentation that we need in order to approach potential corporate donors. It will be interesting and fun to work via Skype with students from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland to create these documents! Look for the final products by the end of the coming spring semester…

2015 will be a rollercoaster as we expand our educational and outreach capacities. This work will happen thanks to the incredible support of the Kentucky Bicycle and Bikeway Commission, which awarded a Paula Nye Memorial Educational Grant in the amount of $16,333 to FCCBikeWorks for its educational and outreach projects. We are happy to step up and do the work, and are deeply grateful for the chance to expand our services to the community!

Please get in touch if you want to help us plan & do! It’s going to be amazing!