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Giant Bicycle Donates Bicycle Products to the Trips for Kids Re-Cyclery

Unique delivery method well-worth the 200 mountain bike rides the donation will provide San Rafael, CA – Long-time Trips for Kids donor, Giant Bicycle USA, recently made a generous product donation to Trips for Kids and its Re-Cyclery. Unlike donations that usually arrive via UPS or a trucking company, Trips for Kids personally took charge [...]

Trips for Kids Hires New Executive Director, North America

A new phase of long term growth and sustainability to serve at-risk youth across North America is launched San Rafael, CA – Trips for Kids (TFK) demonstrated their long term commitment to under-served youth, hiring a new Executive Director for North America, Eric Goldman that will oversee the Trips For Kids. This organization will be [...]

Marilyn Price honored with President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition Community Leadership Award

San Rafael, CA – The President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition (PCFSN) has chosen Marilyn Price to receive a 2010 PCFSN Community Leadership Award. The award is given annually to individuals who improve the lives of individuals within their community by providing or enhancing opportunities to engage in sports, physical activities, fitness or nutrition-related [...]

Inaugural North American Bike Tour by Tour d’Afrique to Benefit Trips for Kids

San Rafael, CA – Tour d’Afrique Ltd is planning its first ever North American bike tour and has partnered with the national bike charity Trips For Kids to raise money and awareness about their bike programs that help at-risk youth. Through the Tour d’Afrique Foundation, the riders and staff of the 2011 tour will be [...]

Trips for Kids “Red Team” Wins CLIF BAR 2 Mile Challenge

The awarded $50,000 grant will support existing chapters with needed equipment and program materials, along with creating new TFK chapters San Rafael, CA – On November 1, Trips for Kids (TFK) and its Red Team of supporters won the CLIF BAR 2 Mile Challenge, a nationwide, six-month long campaign to fight climate change by encouraging [...]

Trips for Kids Earns $25,000 Through Nonprofit Partnership with the CLIF BAR 2 Mile Challenge

Those who support TFK through the 2 Mile Challenge could help the organization earn up to $50,000 this year San Rafael, CA – Trips for Kids (TFK) has earned $25,000 as one of the three bike-focused nonprofits Clif Bar & Company has selected to lead its 2 Mile Challenge, a program that encourages the public [...]

Mountain Bike Legends Pack Fundraiser to Benefit Trips for Kids

Mountain bike pioneers and Bay Area Community members raise nearly $3,000 for Trips for Kids at the annual Brews, Bike and Bucks party San Rafael, Calif. – Trips for Kids’ annual Brews, Bikes and Bucks fundraiser held Sunday, February 21, attracted more mountain bike pioneers, along with dozens of Bay Area-based mountain bikers, than it [...]

Trips for Kids to Host 12th Annual “Brews, Bikes and Bucks” Party With Mountain Bike Pioneers

San Rafael, CA – Trips for Kids (TFK) proudly announces its annual “Brews, Bikes and Bucks” raffle event will take place Sunday, February 21, 2010 at the Broken Drum Brewery in San Rafael, Calif. from 2 pm to 6 pm. Now in its twelfth year, this fundraising event has become an annual gathering of local [...]

Trips for Kids Receives $30,000 Grant from New Belgium Brewing Co.

Whether investing in a social bike program or providing a two-year capacity-building grant to Trips for Kids, which will go into supporting outreach to new and existing chapters, the New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, CO continues its support of the bicycling culture.  Then again, what would you expect from a company that has [...]

Trips for Kids Opens its 68th Chapter

Trips for Kids works with Ladysmith-Hawkins School District to help establish a mountain bike riding program to benefit local children in the district SAN RAFAEL, Calif. – Trips for Kids (TFK), a non-profit organization that uses mountain biking trips to promote self-confidence and environmental awareness among disadvantaged youth, today announced the establishment of its 68th [...]

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