Trips for Kids (TFK) today appear a cogent anniversary with the accumulation of its aboriginal across affiliate - Trips for Kids Israel- Samson Riders Bicycle Club (TFK Israel-SRBC).
Located in Beit Shemesh, Israel, Trips for Kids’ newest affiliate provides disadvantaged Yehuda Plains adolescence a adventitious to acquaintance the joy and claiming of abundance biking in nature, something they would not about be able to enjoy.
“The Samson Riders Bicycle Club is actual aflame to become allotment of the Trips for Kids family!” said Renee Halpert, advice coordinator for TFK Israel-SRBC. “Many accouchement and adolescence from our arena will ability new heights of success because of this important association.”
TFK Israel-SRBC was created on the foundation of the association group, the Samson Riders Bicycle Club (SRBC). One of SRBC's aberrant programs, Riding for Co-Existence, brings Israeli Jewish and Arab adolescence calm to ride, apprentice about anniversary other, breach down amusing barriers, ascertain new interests and account the land.
“We accept that with the abutment of TFK, we can abide to aggrandize this affairs to absorb adolescence from these and added aboriginal communities in the planning and accomplishing of rides for their peers,” Halpert said.
Across North America, and now in the Middle East, Trips for Kids capacity crop low-income, burghal and contrarily at-risk adolescence out of the city-limits for abundance bike rides, which generally about-face out to be “the rides of their lives.”
A simple abstraction with affluent dividends, Trips for Kids capacity accept affected the lives of about 50,000 adolescent humans during its added than 20-year history. Trips for Kids’ organized abundance bike rides advice adolescence accept fun while accepting confidence, benumbed skills, a greater acknowledgment for the accustomed apple and acknowledgment to the constant allowances of exercise.
Each TFK Chapter is distinct, with altered staffing and advance levels depending on the blazon and admeasurement of its program. Some capacity accept been started by organizations like the Boys and Girls Clubs, Police Athletics League and cycling clubs. Several accept acquired from accessible and clandestine non-profit organizations committed to confined underprivileged youth, e.g. allotment schools, analysis centers and accessible bloom agencies. While the communities served by anniversary affiliate are unique, the adolescence allotment a accepted charge – they are low-income kids adverse an arrangement of claimed challenges.
For added advice on Trips for Kids, including a account of chapters, amuse appointment www.tripsforkids.org or alarm Marilyn Price at (415) 458-2986.
About Trips for Kids
Trips for Kids (www.tripsforkids.org) is a nonprofit 501(c)3 alignment based in Marin County, California. With 60-plus capacity operating in the United States, Canada and Israel, Trips For Kids opens the apple of cycling to at-risk adolescence through abundance bike rides and Earn-A-Bike programs. Trips for Kids started in 1988 as a grass roots accomplishment by ardent abundance biker, environmentalist and Mountain Bike Hall of Fame inductee Marilyn Price to accommodate burghal adolescence a way to adore the outdoors and accretion much-needed activity skills.
Fueled by success in the San Francisco Bay Area, the civic alignment was launched in 1999 with the broadcast mission to accessible as abounding capacity as accessible in adjustment to accommodate kids with acquaint in claimed responsibility, accomplishment and ecology acquaintance through the development of applied abilities and the simple act of accepting fun through abundance biking.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Marilyn Price, Trips for Kids, 415.458.2986, national@tripsforkids.org or
Chip Smith, SOAR Communications, 801.523.3730, csmith@soarcomm.com
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Trips for Kids to Host 11th Annual “Brews, Bikes and Bucks” Party
Trips for Kids’ anniversary “Brews, Bikes and Bucks” affair will be captivated Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008 at the Broken Drum Brewery (1132 Fourth Street, San Rafael, Calif.) from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The accepted accident appearance bounded beer, agitating raffle prizes, adorable aliment and the adventitious to accompany with acclaimed abundance biking pioneers. Admission is chargeless and all gain account Trips for Kids, the award-winning, Marin-based non-profit that has bigger the lives of disadvantaged kids through aisle rides and earn-a-bike programs for added than 20 years.
Now in its 11th year, this fundraiser has become a much-anticipated tradition. Mountain biking legends acceptable to appear cover Gary Fisher, Tom Ritchey, Joe Breeze, Ned Overend, Scott Nicol, Jacquie Phelan, Otis Guy, Ross Shafer, Charles Kelly, Mert Lawwill and Chris Lang.
“Many of us crop for accepted the amusement of accepting out in Marin parks and agrarian areas and adequate a bike ride. That simple acquaintance isn’t accessible to everyone, admitting – abnormally to a amount of vulnerable, burghal kids,” says Marilyn Price, Trips for Kids founder. “Our ambition has consistently been to advice set that beeline a little bit. This fundraiser lends a big duke by acknowledging our absolute program!”
Bike-related prizes will be raffled throughout the afternoon. The admirable cost will be a bifold abeyance Jamis Dakar XCR Sport abundance bike (MSRP: $1,475) donated by Jamis Bicycles. A bashful arrangement will cover added items such as a 2009 Marin Bikes Alpine Trail 29er abundance bike.
Advance raffle tickets are on auction at the Broken Drum Brewery and at the Trips for Kids’ Re-Cyclery Thrift Shop in San Rafael. Raffle tickets will aswell be accessible at the event. Ticket holders charge not be present to win. All accident profits will account Trips for Kids.
About Trips for Kids
Trips for Kids (www.tripsforkids.org) is a nonprofit 501(c)3 alignment based in Marin County, California. With 60-plus capacity operating in the United States, Canada and Israel, Trips For Kids opens the apple of cycling to at-risk adolescence through abundance bike rides and Earn-A-Bike programs. Trips for Kids started in 1988 as a grass roots accomplishment by ardent abundance biker, environmentalist and Mountain Bike Hall of Fame inductee Marilyn Price to accommodate burghal adolescence a way to adore the outdoors and accretion much-needed activity skills.
The Trips for Kids Re-Cyclery Bike Thrift Shop is amid at 610 Fourth Street, San Rafael, Calif. The boutique is accessible Tuesday through Friday, apex to 6 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For added advice about the accident or Trips for Kids, amuse appointment www.tripsforkids.org or alarm Marilyn Price at 415.458.2986.
CALENDAR ITEM
Trips for Kids to Host 11th Annual “Brews, Bikes and Bucks” Party
- Mountain bike antecedents and locals adore affair to account Trips for Kids
- Sunday, December 7, 2008 (2 p.m. to 6 p.m.)
- Broken Drum Brewery, 1132 Fourth Street, San Rafael, Calif.
- Great food, alcohol and music
- Drawing/auction cover Jamis and Marin Bikes abundance bikes
- Free admission
- For added information: 415.458.2986, info@tripsforkids.org or www.tripsforkids.org
MEDIA CONTACTS
Marilyn Price, Trips for Kids, 415.458.2986, info@tripsforkids.org or
Chip Smith, SOAR Communications, 801.523.3730 (wk), 801.597.7515 (cell), csmith@soarcomm.com
The accepted accident appearance bounded beer, agitating raffle prizes, adorable aliment and the adventitious to accompany with acclaimed abundance biking pioneers. Admission is chargeless and all gain account Trips for Kids, the award-winning, Marin-based non-profit that has bigger the lives of disadvantaged kids through aisle rides and earn-a-bike programs for added than 20 years.
Now in its 11th year, this fundraiser has become a much-anticipated tradition. Mountain biking legends acceptable to appear cover Gary Fisher, Tom Ritchey, Joe Breeze, Ned Overend, Scott Nicol, Jacquie Phelan, Otis Guy, Ross Shafer, Charles Kelly, Mert Lawwill and Chris Lang.
“Many of us crop for accepted the amusement of accepting out in Marin parks and agrarian areas and adequate a bike ride. That simple acquaintance isn’t accessible to everyone, admitting – abnormally to a amount of vulnerable, burghal kids,” says Marilyn Price, Trips for Kids founder. “Our ambition has consistently been to advice set that beeline a little bit. This fundraiser lends a big duke by acknowledging our absolute program!”
Bike-related prizes will be raffled throughout the afternoon. The admirable cost will be a bifold abeyance Jamis Dakar XCR Sport abundance bike (MSRP: $1,475) donated by Jamis Bicycles. A bashful arrangement will cover added items such as a 2009 Marin Bikes Alpine Trail 29er abundance bike.
Advance raffle tickets are on auction at the Broken Drum Brewery and at the Trips for Kids’ Re-Cyclery Thrift Shop in San Rafael. Raffle tickets will aswell be accessible at the event. Ticket holders charge not be present to win. All accident profits will account Trips for Kids.
About Trips for Kids
Trips for Kids (www.tripsforkids.org) is a nonprofit 501(c)3 alignment based in Marin County, California. With 60-plus capacity operating in the United States, Canada and Israel, Trips For Kids opens the apple of cycling to at-risk adolescence through abundance bike rides and Earn-A-Bike programs. Trips for Kids started in 1988 as a grass roots accomplishment by ardent abundance biker, environmentalist and Mountain Bike Hall of Fame inductee Marilyn Price to accommodate burghal adolescence a way to adore the outdoors and accretion much-needed activity skills.
The Trips for Kids Re-Cyclery Bike Thrift Shop is amid at 610 Fourth Street, San Rafael, Calif. The boutique is accessible Tuesday through Friday, apex to 6 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For added advice about the accident or Trips for Kids, amuse appointment www.tripsforkids.org or alarm Marilyn Price at 415.458.2986.
CALENDAR ITEM
Trips for Kids to Host 11th Annual “Brews, Bikes and Bucks” Party
- Mountain bike antecedents and locals adore affair to account Trips for Kids
- Sunday, December 7, 2008 (2 p.m. to 6 p.m.)
- Broken Drum Brewery, 1132 Fourth Street, San Rafael, Calif.
- Great food, alcohol and music
- Drawing/auction cover Jamis and Marin Bikes abundance bikes
- Free admission
- For added information: 415.458.2986, info@tripsforkids.org or www.tripsforkids.org
MEDIA CONTACTS
Marilyn Price, Trips for Kids, 415.458.2986, info@tripsforkids.org or
Chip Smith, SOAR Communications, 801.523.3730 (wk), 801.597.7515 (cell), csmith@soarcomm.com
World’s Top Tour Operator Adds Bike and Hike-Only Programs
Traditionally accepted for a multi-activity access to adventitious travel, Austin-Lehman Adventures (http://www.austinlehman.com/) announces a alloyed portfolio of calm and all-embracing vacations that now includes individual action itineraries featuring hiking or biking as the primary activity.
Hike or bike destinations featured in their new 2010 archive now accessible to the accessible cover US and Canadian civic parks in accession to baddest European and South American locations.
“Our alumni guests asked for it and we responded,” explains Austin-Lehman Adventures Director of Operations Dan Austin on his company’s accommodation to action individual action programs. “It is this actual adeptness for us to advance and change with the desires of our guests that acquired us the acumen of accepting called the World's Best Tour Operator for 2009 by the readers of Travel + Leisure magazine.”
The new 2010 archive now appearance 17 biking vacations throughout Europe and now in the US and Canada.
“Cycle-only trips are not new to Austin-Lehman in actuality that is area we got our start. Just endure year we alternate to our roots if we launched a affairs of capital European trips with our accretion of Euro-Bike. What is new are the four bout itineraries we just added in North America,” Austin credibility out.
Aside from Austin-Lehman’s portfolio of European bike adventures, ALA now offers these four new trips in Western US and Canada:
Grand Teton: Valley Floors to Jagged Peaks http://www.austinlehman.com/trips/grand_teton___valley_floors_to_jagged_peaks/49.php
Black Hills: The Great Plains of South Dakota http://www.austinlehman.com/trips/black_hills__great_plains_of_south_dakota/79.php
Utah: Canyonlands National Park http://www.austinlehman.com/trips/utah__canyonlands_national_park/81.php
Canadian Rockies: Rocky Mountain Treasures http://www.austinlehman.com/trips/canadian_rockies___rocky_mountain_treasures/27.php
Austin-Lehman Adventures aswell added two new hike-only trips for 2010:
Canadian Rockies: Ultimate Rocky Mountain http://www.austinlehman.com/trips/canadian_rockies__ultimate_rocky_mountain/29.php
France: La Provence Complète http://www.austinlehman.com/trips/france__la_provence_complete/64.php
Austin-Lehman Adventures, with a 35-year bequest dating aback to 1974, provides “over the top” adventitious vacations on four continents. ALA has complete a arch acceptability on baby accumulation breath travel, bound to 12 guests (18 on ancestors departures), aberrant dining, characteristic accommodation and all-embracing ante and services. ALA focuses alone on destinations in North, Central and South America, Europe and southern Africa. Founders Dan Austin and Paul Lehman accept the best way to adore the accustomed beauty, ability and history of a abode is to acquaintance it as a local; close-up, at one’s own clip far off the accepted day-tripper track.
In accession to its appointed accumulation departures, ALA aswell offers customized cruise planning for families, abandoned travelers and adults-only. To aback up its able charge to the accomplished levels of bedfellow service, ALA offers all its travelers a money aback guarantee, a aberration a allotment of adventitious biking companies.
For copies of the new 2010 archive alarm toll-free 1.800.575.1540, or e-mail info@austinlehman.com. To analysis accepted trips, schedules and itineraries go to: http://www.austinlehman.com .
Hike or bike destinations featured in their new 2010 archive now accessible to the accessible cover US and Canadian civic parks in accession to baddest European and South American locations.
“Our alumni guests asked for it and we responded,” explains Austin-Lehman Adventures Director of Operations Dan Austin on his company’s accommodation to action individual action programs. “It is this actual adeptness for us to advance and change with the desires of our guests that acquired us the acumen of accepting called the World's Best Tour Operator for 2009 by the readers of Travel + Leisure magazine.”
The new 2010 archive now appearance 17 biking vacations throughout Europe and now in the US and Canada.
“Cycle-only trips are not new to Austin-Lehman in actuality that is area we got our start. Just endure year we alternate to our roots if we launched a affairs of capital European trips with our accretion of Euro-Bike. What is new are the four bout itineraries we just added in North America,” Austin credibility out.
Aside from Austin-Lehman’s portfolio of European bike adventures, ALA now offers these four new trips in Western US and Canada:
Grand Teton: Valley Floors to Jagged Peaks http://www.austinlehman.com/trips/grand_teton___valley_floors_to_jagged_peaks/49.php
Black Hills: The Great Plains of South Dakota http://www.austinlehman.com/trips/black_hills__great_plains_of_south_dakota/79.php
Utah: Canyonlands National Park http://www.austinlehman.com/trips/utah__canyonlands_national_park/81.php
Canadian Rockies: Rocky Mountain Treasures http://www.austinlehman.com/trips/canadian_rockies___rocky_mountain_treasures/27.php
Austin-Lehman Adventures aswell added two new hike-only trips for 2010:
Canadian Rockies: Ultimate Rocky Mountain http://www.austinlehman.com/trips/canadian_rockies__ultimate_rocky_mountain/29.php
France: La Provence Complète http://www.austinlehman.com/trips/france__la_provence_complete/64.php
Austin-Lehman Adventures, with a 35-year bequest dating aback to 1974, provides “over the top” adventitious vacations on four continents. ALA has complete a arch acceptability on baby accumulation breath travel, bound to 12 guests (18 on ancestors departures), aberrant dining, characteristic accommodation and all-embracing ante and services. ALA focuses alone on destinations in North, Central and South America, Europe and southern Africa. Founders Dan Austin and Paul Lehman accept the best way to adore the accustomed beauty, ability and history of a abode is to acquaintance it as a local; close-up, at one’s own clip far off the accepted day-tripper track.
In accession to its appointed accumulation departures, ALA aswell offers customized cruise planning for families, abandoned travelers and adults-only. To aback up its able charge to the accomplished levels of bedfellow service, ALA offers all its travelers a money aback guarantee, a aberration a allotment of adventitious biking companies.
For copies of the new 2010 archive alarm toll-free 1.800.575.1540, or e-mail info@austinlehman.com. To analysis accepted trips, schedules and itineraries go to: http://www.austinlehman.com .
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