| Join Us at the National Open Streets Summit | Want to bring Open Streets to your community, or scale an existing initiative? You can do it ... and we can help. At the National Open Streets Summit -- April 4 - 6 in Los Angeles, CA -- you'll learn the techniques that have enabled Open Streets to flourish in over 100 cities across North America. And because the Summit will be co-hosted with CicLAvia, you'll get to see Los Angeles' huge Open Streets initiative in action -- and learn directly from its organizers. Register this month to take advantage of the early bird price. Members get a $100 discount off the ticket price; email Megan for the discount code. |
| VOTE: 10 Stellar Organizations Nominated for Bicycling Magazine People's Choice Award | Since 2009, the Alliance has held the Advocacy Awards to recognize excellence in the bicycle and pedestrian movement. And this year, we're thrilled to partner with Bicycling Magazine to offer the People's Choice Award -- an award decided by popular vote that will celebrate one exceptional effort to get more people pedaling.  There are ten amazing bike advocacy organizations up for consideration over at Bicycling.com. Vote for your favorite -- if you can decide! And don't forget to mark off your calendars to join as at the 2014 Alliance Advocacy Awards on the evening of Monday, March 3 in Washington, DC, presented by Bicycling Magazine. |
| Alliance Members: Join the Advocate Mentorship Program | Are you a newer advocate looking for mentorship in the field? Or a seasoned leader with capacity to coach a newer member of our movement? Apply to join the Alliance's Advocate Mentorship Program. Through this program -- now in its second year -- we pair new or emerging advocates with more experienced staff in the active transportation advocacy space.  The commitment is small, but the returns could be huge for the confidence and strength of the bicycling and walking movement. Apply by February 12 to participate » |
| New Report: Protected Bike Lanes Mean Business | As the economy bounces back and Americans flock to urban centers, city leaders and business leaders have discovered an unexpected tool to create opportunities in downtown economies: the protected bike lane. In a new report from PeopleForBikes and the Alliance for Biking & Walking, 15 entrepreneurs and business leaders from major U.S. cities explain how protected bike lanes -- on-street lanes that are physically separated from automobile traffic by curbs, planters, parked cars or posts -- have meant big benefits for their companies. |
| Organizing State Bike / Walk Summits | More and more advocates across the United States are organizing annual state summits to push active transportation forward at the state level. On this call, we heard from advocates and experts in the field about best practices and tips on how to organize an effective summit. On a recent Alliance Mutual Aid Call, we heard from statewide organizers and national experts about how to make annual state summits effective, impactful, and inspiring. |
| Unlock Bike/Ped Dollars for Your Community: Apply for a Navigating MAP-21 Workshop | Since the latest federal transportation bill passed, some states and communities have not yet taken advantage of new opportunities to fund biking and walking projects and programs.  If you'd like to focus on opportunities for your community to unlock local, state, and federal funding for biking and walking, bring Advocacy Advance to your town. Advocates and public agencies can partner to apply to host Navigating MAP-21 Workshops. At these customizable trainings, participants gain the knowledge, skills and resources to access untapped or under-utilized federal active transportation funding. And if you're in Florida, New Hampshire, or Hawai'i, you can sign up for these already scheduled workshops. |
| Registration Open for Oakland and Baltimore Winning Campaigns Trainings | This year, Alliance trainers will be hopping all over North America to help local biking and walking advocates win bigger in their communities. Next up: Oakland and Baltimore!  In our signature Winning Campaigns Trainings, we train advocates and concerned citizens on how to design and win campaigns to make their communities better. In just three days, participants learn key organizing tactics in strategizing, funding and conducting campaigns that transform the transportation landscape in their cities and states. Registrations are now open for two upcoming Winning Campaign Trainings: March 21 - 23 in Oakland, CA and April 11 - 13 in Baltimore, MD. |
| | Welcome, New Alliance Board Members | This year, the Alliance welcomes four new stellar advocates and practitioners to our board of directors.  Jill Chamberlain of the Center for Prevention at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Dani Simons of NYC Bike Share, Amy Ford-Wagner of Parsons Brinckerhoff, and Rebecca Serna of the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition have joined the board. Meet the Alliance board » |
Upcoming Webinars and Mutual Aid Calls
| Our Mutual Aid webinars and conference calls are great forums to gain insight from peers and colleagues on the most important issues in biking and walking advocacy today. -
- Tune in to hear from Caron Whitaker, Vice President of Government Relations for the League of American Bicyclists. Presented by the League of American Bicyclists, Alliance for Biking & Walking and Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals.
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- Whether you're fed up with keeping all your donations in spreadsheets, sick of using outdated software to track volunteer hours, or are trying to integrate multiple contact databases into a in a brand new system, you'll get valuable information from this webinar on Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) systems.
Learn from a combined panel of experienced database administrators and busy advocates like yourself how to choose and use a database to help you streamline your membership management, fundraising, communications and volunteer tracking.
This webinar is designed to be useful for organizations seeking their first CRMs as well as organizations looking to upgrade or replace their current systems.
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- Learn about Advocacy Advance's soon-to-be released report on uncovering bicycling and walking projects listed in every state's transportation improvement program. We will discuss how states are spending their federal transportation dollars on bicycling and walking projects and how to improve state reporting of this important data.
| What would you like to discuss on a Mutual Aid Call or Webinar? Does your organization have expertise to share? Email Megan with your ideas! |
| | NYC Mayor Sets 'Vision Zero' Goal In an ambitious move applauded by advocates, new New York City mayor Bill de Blasio announced an interagency partnership to move the city toward Vision Zero, the goal of eliminating traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2024. Currently, four thousand people are injured or killed on New York City streets each year. Read more » SF Police Commit to Vision Zero Goal Mirroring peers in New York City, the San Francisco Police Department announced a shift in policy to focus on eliminating bicyclist and pedestrian fatalities. Read more » Cleveland Commits to More Bike Lanes As part of the Rust Belt city's capital improvement plan, Cleveland has announced that it will build 70 new miles of bike lanes in the next three years. The new plan secures funding, identifies priority streets, and sets a timeline for implementation. More » Leadership Change at Bike Utah Bike Utah has appointed Phil Sarnoff as their new executive director. Phil brings experience managing Salt Lake City's new bike share program and working within the Salt Lake City Division of Sustainability. More » Outcry in LA After Mayor's SUV Strikes Woman in X-Walk Just months after Los Angeles police began a controversial campaign to aggressively ticket for jaywalking, an SUV carrying Mayor Eric Garcetti struck a 60-year-old woman in a crosswalk. Los Angeles Walks has called on the mayor to create a citywide Pedestrian Safety Action Plan to improve street design and address enforcement. More » |
Join Your Peers at the National Bike Summit For more than a decade, the League of American Bicyclists' National Bike Summit has united the voices of bicyclists on Capitol Hill to increase commitment to biking and walking. Join advocates from across the country at this annual meeting of the minds, including the National Women's Bicycling Forum. Register » National Walking Summit Videos Online The archive of videos from the Every Body Walk Collaborative's National Walking Summit are now online. Relive the most inspiring talks and catch the sessions you missed. Highlights include a dispatch from The Disabled Traveler, discussions of how to bring walking back to New Orleans, and lessons from youth walking advocates in California. Watch »
Transportation Offers Bipartisan Hope In the State of the Union address, President Obama cited the need to direct revenue toward "rebuilding our roads, upgrading our ports, unclogging our commutes." As Congress prepares to work on a new transportation bill reauthorization, Transportation For America argues that this issue could be our best hope for bipartisanship in this Congress. Read more » |
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