Please help us reach $15,000. Your Donation Delivers Lots of SMILES!

Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, in just over two weeks, we raised 70% of our $15,000 fundraising goal and our volunteers continue to contribute matching funds to double your donation. Matching funds won't last long, so help us now by donating at:

https://www.thebigshare.org/organizations/wheels-for-winners

* $25 provides a new helmet and lock to a youth bike rider. Give kids a safer ride!

* $50 provides a completely refurbished bike with a new helmet and lock.

* $150 provides a free community bike repair clinic.

Last year our volunteers overhauled nearly 350 donated bikes, spending as many as 4+ hours per bike, re-greasing bearings and replacing chains, brakes and other worn parts.

In 2023

❖ 300+ refurbished bikes and helmets were given to earners for community service.

❖ 92 refurbished bikes provided to community groups and events.

❖ 30+ free community repair events with 450 bikes repaired at no charge to participants.

Thank you for your support!

Your Donation Delivers Lots of Smiles

Your donation of $25 gives a new helmet and lock to a young bike rider.

Your donation gives youth a safer ride!

Donate today to support bikes for all youth, instill a sense of community and service at an early age, and deliver lots of smiles to kids! Every kid deserves a good bike!

Give at our annual fundraiser:

https://www.thebigshare.org/organizations/wheels-for-winners

In 2023 ❖ 300 + refurbished bikes were given to earners for community service.

❖ 92 refurbished bikes provided to community groups and events.

❖ 30 + free community repair events with 450 bikes repaired.

Your donation of $50 delivers a totally refurbished bike, new lock and helmet to a deserving youth!

Help us deliver smiles!

Serving Madison and Dane County since 1992, Wheels for Winners is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization operating an earn-a-bike program. We provide refurbished bicycles to “bike earners”, primarily high school and younger children who perform community service. Our all-volunteer organization believes that equitable access to a bicycle is an important component of a strong, vibrant, healthy community. Through our earn-a-bike program we encourage volunteerism, recycle unused bicycles, and support cycling as part of a healthy lifestyle.

Your donation of $150 provides a free community bike repair clinic.

Help us keep children’s bikes in good repair so kid’s can continue to ride safely!

Your donation is greatly appreciated! Give at:

https://www.thebigshare.org/organizations/wheels-for-winners

Please Donate to Wheels' Annual Fundraiser

Wheels’ volunteers

provide 72 free bikes with helmets and locks to youth at Centro Hispano.

Dear Friends of Wheels,

We are kicking off our annual Big Share fundraiser, which culminates on March 5th, with a request for your support to help us reach our goal of $15,000. Double your donation by contributing early at this website, 

https://www.thebigshare.org/organizations/wheels-for-winners

Please donate to help us build on our banner year in 2023 (detailed in our 2023 annual report). Whether we're reinvigorating core programming, breathing new life into partnerships or addressing emerging needs, our programming will meet the diverse cycling needs of our community and include enhanced support through the distribution of 20 new bikes. 

These 2023 accomplishments provide the playbook for our approach in 2024:  

• Provided nearly 400 refurbished bikes to our community (a 19% increase from 2022) at no charge to recipients, including over 300 bikes to earners whose community service involved food prep and pantry work, and promoting community bike riding. 

• Enlisted over 15 different volunteers to participate in 30 community bike events (matching our 2022 level) where we repaired 336 bikes at no charge.

• Enhanced our support for long-time partners: repairing 20 bikes at 5 public markets sponsored by Centro Hispano while providing 71 bikes for their Three Kings Day celebration, teaching Bayview Foundation staff bike maintenance skills while providing 15 bikes and 54 bike repairs to Bayview residents, holding in-service training for 7 Lussier Family Heritage Center staff on bike maintenance while repairing 61 bikes in their fleet used for community riding events. 

• Responded to the influx of refugees in our area, by committing to work with Open Doors for Refugees, Jewish Social Services Refugee and Immigration Services, Stoughton Resettlement Project, and the International Crane Foundation to provide 60 bikes to help newly arrived immigrants build new lives.

Since we are an all-volunteer organization, we keep our overhead low and more of your contributions are used to directly support our program activities such as buying supplies to refurbish donated bikes, purchasing over 500 helmets and locks to protect riders and their bikes, and supporting community events.  

Please give now at our Big Share website. Your support is deeply appreciated!

Sincerely,

The Wheels for Winners Team