{"id":11867,"date":"2009-05-09T10:10:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T17:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11867"},"modified":"2009-05-09T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T17:13:00","slug":"cycling-road-mt-bike-fundraiser-mikes-bikes-2009-africa-bike-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11867","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road Mt. Bike Fundraiser &#8211; Mike&#8217;s Bikes 2009 Africa Bike Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11868\" title=\"bikedrivelogo_brown\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/05\/bikedrivelogo_brown.gif\" alt=\"bikedrivelogo_brown\" width=\"350\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bikedrivelogo_brown.gif 350w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bikedrivelogo_brown-150x60.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mike&#8217;s Bikes\u00c2\u00a02009 Africa Bike Drive is on now! (and your donation is now tax-deductible!)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A huge thank you to all of our customers for making our Africa Bike Drive a stunning 406-bike success in 2008. The bikes are in Botswana and changing the lives of their owners as you read this, and we couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be happier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve decided to build on this success and double our goal for our 2009 Africa Bike Drive\u00e2\u20ac\u201dover 800 bikes! We have a great new partner and a new beneficiary for our cause. For every bicycle donated, Varsity Painting will contribute $30 to Children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hospital of Oakland\u00c2\u00a0on behalf of the bike donor. What&#8217;s more, the Mike&#8217;s Bikes Foundation has just been approved for 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit status, so your bike donation is tax-deductible!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A remote village in Namibia will be the location of our new Sister Shop, a place where there is little access to telephones, much less bicycles. Erasmus and Ludwig are our point-men on the ground along with Peace Corps Volunteer Kami (at right, top to bottom). They are thrilled to have an opportunity to bring a better life to their community through the power of the bicycle, which is our philosophy exactly. With your help and generosity, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be a beautiful partnership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How it works<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Simply bring in your donation bicycle to any Mike&#8217;s Bikes store. We will take down your contact information and do two things with it:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1. Provide it to Varsity Painting so that they can make a $30 Children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hospital of Oakland donation in your name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2. Email you a 501(c)(3) receipt that you may use to deduct your bike donation on your taxes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By bringing your unwanted bike to Mike\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s for donation, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll not only be helping &#8230;<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mikesbikes.com\/page.cfm?pageId=591\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Mike&#8217;s Bikes\u00c2\u00a02009 Africa Bike Drive is on now! (and your donation is now tax-deductible!) A huge thank you to all of our customers for making our Africa Bike Drive a stunning 406-bike success in 2008. The bikes are in Botswana and changing the lives of their owners as you read this, and we couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,71,39,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-fundraiser-andor-volunteer","category-mt-bike","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11867"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11873,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11867\/revisions\/11873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}