8th Annual
Bike to Work Breakfast
A benefit for
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center John Duggan Rails to Trails Conservancy Seattle Children’s Sound Transit Stoel Rives
TABLE CAPTAINS Sharon Anderson Jessica Aronson Cook Chuck Ayers Tom Bartholomew Kadie Bell Sata, AICP Craig Benjamin Doug Burgesser Jamie Cheney Elizabeth Churchill Rob Crichton Barbara Culp Brigitte Dubois John Duggan Brian Foley Christian Folk Stephanie Frans Peter Goldman Christine Grant Tessa Greegor Annie Groeninger Cori Haak
Peter Hahn Peter Hallson Rob Harrison, AIA Tim Hennings Max Hepp-Buchanan Michael Inocencio Virgil Jones III Eileen Kadesh Damien King Maxwell Kullaway Sander Lazar Serena Lehman Monica Leers Jennifer Malley John Mauro Kathy McCabe Dan McGrady Mo McBroom Mike Meany Steve Meineke Mike Merritt
Bree Moore Emily Moran Arthur Peterson Joel Pfundt Robbie Phillips Janis Radtke Robin Randels Brian Rice Dave Rodgers Alan Ross Chris Rule Julie SalathĂŠ Ron Sher Robert Sindelar Brooks Stanfield Peter Verbrugge Daniel Weise David Wiggins Tarrell Wright Amanda Wright
TABLE HOSTS Bruce Agnew & Cascadia Center Bicycle Alliance of Washington The Boeing Company Kevin Carrabine Jennifer Davis Dr. Rayburn Lewis, MD NetMotion Wireless Outdoor Research William Ptacek
Charles Ruthford Seattle Department of Transportation Ron Sher Michael Snyder John Su Unico Properties Virginia Mason Medical Center Ed Yoshida
Welcome. On behalf of Cascade Bicycle Club’s board, staff, members and volunteers, welcome to the 8th Annual Bike to Work Breakfast, a benefit for Cascade Bicycle Club’s Education Foundation. Community leaders like you, who share our commitment to creating better, more livable communities through bicycling, are at the core of Cascade’s efforts. Since we gathered in this room a year ago, Cascade’s staff and board have been hard at work encouraging people to ride bikes and helping them stay safe on our roads. We’ve assisted communities in adopting Complete Streets ordinances and defended regional assets like the Burke-Gilman Trail. We’ve brought the joy of bicycling to thousands of kids and teens and empowered hundreds of bicycle commuters to ride to work for the first time. We’ve shown business leaders that investing in bicycling not only improves employee health and job satisfaction, but also contributes to the bottom line. Through efforts like these, Cascade is committed to transforming our community. We envision a community that bicycles – an inclusive, diverse community connected by the world-class infrastructure that will make bicycling accessible to all. With your support, Cascade will make this vision a reality. We’ve laid the groundwork to make huge progress in the coming year. We’re launching BizCycle, a brand-new certification system for businesses, and developing a toolkit for cities, so that city planners have access to the resources they need to design bike-friendly transportation plans. This summer, we’ll begin training our first cohort of Community Bicycle Advocates through Cascade’s Advocacy Leadership Institute, an eight-week program designed to empower committed volunteers to become effective advocates for better bicycling in Seattle and beyond. We’re also providing opportunities for disadvantaged kids to ride bikes for the first time – both in their communities and on mountain trails – and reaching out to people of all ages and who are reluctant to take that first pedal-stroke. By encouraging people to ride bicycles – and ensuring that cities prioritize bicycles in transportation planning – Cascade builds connected, healthy, vibrant communities. We reduce our dependence upon fossil fuels and decrease pollution. We help people stay active, healthy and connected to one another. Most of all, we enrich people’s lives. Thanks to our event sponsors, one-hundred percent of your donations today will go directly to supporting this work. Please give generously. Thank you.
Chuck Ayers Executive Director
Daniel Weise Board President
8th Annual
Bike to Work Breakfast Friday, May 4, 2012
Willie Weir Master of Ceremonies DOUG WALKER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Public Health – Seattle & King County PRESENTED BY:
Tessa Greegor Principal Planner, Cascade Bicycle Club ACCEPTED BY:
Kadie Bell Sata, AICP & James Krieger, MD, MPH KEYNOTE ADDRESS The Honorable Earl Blumenauer United States House of Representatives (D-OR) Chuck Ayers Executive Director, Cascade Bicycle Club VIDEO Three Stories from the Road YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO SUPPORT OUR VISION
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Congressman Earl Blumenauer Congressman Blumenauer leads the fight to promote transportation alternatives at the federal level. A leading environmental advocate, Congressman Blumenauer has authored and co-sponsored legislation to preserve and protect public lands, shift the nation’s energy policy towards renewable energy and energy efficiency, curb global warming, clean our nation’s water bodies and many others. His pro-bike legislative accomplishments include: • Conserve by Bicycle Program (an amendment to the 2005 Energy Bill) creates a pilot program and a national educational effort on the energy conservation benefits of converting trips from cars to bikes. • Bicycle Commuter Act, which amends the IRS code to include “bicycles” in the definition of transportation covered by fringe benefits, was incorporated into the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. • A Carbon Audit of the United States Tax Code, which instructs the National Academy of Sciences to review of the tax code to identify tax provisions and policies that have the greatest influence on the generation of carbon emissions, was incorporated into the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. • Congressman Blumenauer founded and co-chaired the Livable Communities Task Force and the Bicycle Caucus. He is also a co-chair of the Passenger Rail Caucus and the Trails Caucus, and a member of the Open Spaces and Land Trust Caucus.
MASTER OF CEREMONIES: Willie Weir Willie Weir is a columnist for Adventure Cyclist magazine, a frequent contributor to public radio station KUOW in Seattle and the author of Spokesongs and Travels with Willie. His two-wheel adventures have taken him all over the globe—from the horse tracks of the highlands of Lesotho, to the war-torn roads of Bosnia, to the back roads of Colombia. He is the recipient of gold and bronze Lowell Thomas Awards from the Society of American Travel Writers. Each year he speaks to thousands of students and adults, inspiring new adventurers and advocates.
Tessa Greegor, Principal Planner, Cascade Bicycle Club Tessa Greegor has been with Cascade Bicycle Club for four years, working as Principal Planner in the Policy, Planning and Government Affairs Department. She works with communities throughout the central Puget Sound region and beyond, providing guidance on nonmotorized planning, design and policy. In addition, Tessa represents non-motorized interests on transportation committees, helping to ensure that projects and plans are developed to encourage safe and attractive opportunities for people to bike and walk in their
communities. During her time with Cascade, Tessa has managed several projects, including “Communities Putting Prevention to Work,” which successfully contributed to the adoption of Complete Streets ordinances in communities across south King County. Tessa holds a master’s in urban planning and design with an emphasis on non-motorized transportation and GIS technologies.
DOUG WALKER AWARD: Public Health – Seattle & King County Named for the former CEO of WRQ, a Seattle-based software company that sponsored Cascade’s Bike to Work Day for more than a decade, Cascade presents the Doug Walker Award each year to an individual or company showing an exceptional commitment to promoting bicycle commuting in the Puget Sound region. This year’s award goes to Public Health – Seattle & King County in recognition of their leadership in making a strong connection between health and transportation. In spring 2010, Public Health was awarded two highly-competitive federal stimulus grants to address the leading causes of death in our region – obesity and tobacco use – as part of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) program. The Department partnered with organizations (including Cascade), cities, schools and other stakeholders to change policies and, ultimately, provide people with healthier transportation choices and safer places to be active. Among the many positive outcomes of this work was the adoption of Complete Streets ordinances by four communities within the Puget Sound region.
ACCEPTED BY:
Kadie Bell Sata, AICP Project Officer, Communities Putting Prevention to Work
Public Health – Seattle & King County
James Krieger, MD, MPH Chief, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention Section
Public Health – Seattle & King County
Chuck Ayers, Executive Director, Cascade Bicycle Club Chuck Ayers has served as Cascade Bicycle Club’s Executive Director for 15 years. During that time, he helped grow the club from 4,500 members to its current membership of more than 14,000. Chuck sits on the boards of the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition and Great City and is a member of the Seattle Central Waterfront Stakeholder Group, the Magnuson Park Strategic Development Plan Advisory Group and the King County Regional Transit Task Force. He has also served on the Washington State Legislature’s Public Transportation Advisory Panel, the City of Seattle’s Bridging the Gap Transportation Levy Oversight Committee and King County’s Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corridor Advisory Committee. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in alternative energy systems and applied environmental sciences from The Evergreen State College and his Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan, and did doctoral work at the University of Washington.
A FEW OF OUR PROGRAMS: •
Bike Month, which brings more than 30,000 people (20 percent of whom are first-time bike commuters) onto our streets by bike and contributes to a reduction of more than one million tons of CO2 emissions during the month of May alone.
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The Bike Business Forum, a collaboration of more than 70 major regional business leaders who come together twice a year to share best practices and engage with public officials about the business, health and environmental advantages of bicyclefriendly communities.
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Bicycle safety and skills classes and camps for more than 25,000 children, teens and adults annually, including Basics of Bicycling, an in-school, on-bike program that introduces elementary school students to the joy and freedom of bicycling and teaches them to ride safely.
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Trips for Kids Seattle, which welcomes disadvantaged urban kids, many of whom have never before ventured into the outdoors, on mountain-biking adventures.
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The Major Taylor Project, an after-school youth development program aimed at underserved high school students, currently serving 150 students per year at four schools in south Seattle, SeaTac and White Center.
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Bizcycle, a best practices guide and first-of-its-kind certification system designed to incentivize businesses to become bike-friendly workplaces.
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Policy & Planning Toolkit, a resource for advocates and municipalities seeking to create bike-friendly cities.
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Advocacy Leadership Institute, an eight-week training program that will empower committed volunteers with the tools they need to advocate effectively for bicycling infrastructure in their communities.
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$25 pays for two homeless kids to spend a day mountain biking with our Trips for Kids program $50 purchases five helmets for low-income families $150 trains 10 new bike commuters during a lunch-time commute class, building their knowledge and confidence and launching them into a lifetime of safe bike commuting that will reduce congestion and air pollution $250 provides a scholarship for one student for summer camp or teach 10 teens how to safely navigate the routes from home to school on bicycles $500 supports one Major Taylor teen riding in this year’s Group Health STP or pays for staff time to review and make public comments on your city’s next bicycle master plan or transportation plan – and for us to activate more than 100 constituents in support of it. $1,000 helps bring Bikewise.org reporting to another city so that hazards are immediately directed to those responsible for fixing them.
TODAY ONLY: Give $365+ (that’s just $1/day!) and you’ll be entered to win two of six registrations for the Group Health STP
STAFF Executive Director Chuck Ayers
Finance Director Kathy Mania
Education Programs Assistant Jenny Almgren
Policy, Planning & Government Affairs Director John Mauro
Policy and Government Affairs Manager Craig Benjamin AmeriCorps Member: Commute Programs Assistant Mary Collins
Deputy Director Kathy McCabe Staff Writer Erica Meurk
Event Director David Douglas
Communications Specialist Leah Pistorius
Principal Planner Tessa Greegor
Classes Coordinator Robin Randels
Development Specialist Noah Down
Education Director Julie SalathĂŠ
AmeriCorps Member: Major Taylor Outreach Program Assistant Emma Epstein
AmeriCorps Member: Youth Programs Assistant Elliott Sherburne
Major Taylor Project Manager Ed Ewing
Youth Programs Manager Kat Sweet
Commute Program Manager Stephanie Frans
Events & Sponsorship Coordinator Anna Telensky
AmeriCorps Member: Community Programs Assistant Erica Hann Advocacy Campaigns Manager Max Hepp-Buchanan Director of Corporate Development Mike Inocencio Director of Communications and Marketing M.J. Kelly Volunteer Coordinator Diana Larson Rides Program Coordinator Sander Lazar Community Outreach Manager Serena Lehman
Event Registrar Kim Thompson Database and Accounting Coordinator Alan Van Vlack Event Producer Peter Verbrugge Development Director Tarrell Wright
BOARD OF DIRECTORS Cascade Bicycle Club President: Daniel Weise, Technologist, Climate Hawk, and Community Volunteer Vice President: Don Volta, Retired Executive, General Motors; Retired Colonel, U.S. Army Treasurer: Michael Snyder, Software Quality Assurance Manager, NetMotion Wireless Secretary: Ed Yoshida, Senior Counsel, Legal Affairs, PATH Director: Kevin Carrabine, Nurse Practitioner, University of Washington Director: George Durham, Director of Communications, Encore Capital Group Director: Rayburn Lewis, MD, Medical Director, Swedish, Ballard Director: Mo McBroom, Policy Director, Washington Environmental Council Director: Emily Moran, DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability Director: Bill Ptacek, Executive Director, King County Library System Director: Charles Ruthford, Organizational Consultant Director: Ron Sher, Business Owner, Metrovations
BOARD OF DIRECTORS Cascade Bicycle Club Education Foundation President: George Durham, Director of Communications, Encore Capital Group Treasurer: Michael Snyder, Software Quality Assurance Manager, NetMotion Wireless Secretary: Kevin Carrabine, Nurse Practitioner, University of Washington Director: Ellen Aagaard, Community Activist Director: Carolyn Hope, Senior Park Planner, City of Redmond
BE A CASCADE CHAMPION Cascade Champions play a leadership role in Cascade’s mission to “Create a better community through bicycling.” Give to Cascade Bicycle Club, Cascade’s Education Foundation or BikePAC, Cascade’s political action committee, for a combined total of at least $1,000 annually ($84 per month) to become a charter member. Benefits include special dinners, rides and recognition. Members who give $2,500 or more receive guaranteed, complimentary entrance into rides like the Group Health STP and RSVP, as well as film
CASCADE CHAMPION BENEFITS
Bronze $1,000+
Silver $2,500+
Gold Platinum $5,000+ $10,000+
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Complementary registrations for all Cascade events Two complementary registrations for all Cascade events
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Cascade Bicycle Club was founded in 1970 by a handful of recreational bicyclists in Mercer Island, seeking to advocate for safer places to ride and connect to other cyclists. From these humble origins, the organization has grown into one of the Puget Sound region’s most formidable forces for safer, healthier, more connected communities. With more than 14,000 members, 29 professional staff and hundreds of volunteers, it is the largest organization of its kind in the United States. Cascade’s Education Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, was established in 2001 to support the expansion of Cascade’s education and advocacy programs. By encouraging non-motorized transportation among children, parents, business leaders, city officials and elected leaders – and advocating for the infrastructure needed to make bicycling for transportation safe, efficient and convenient – the Foundation’s programs fight rising obesity rates, connect disconnected neighborhoods, reduce air and water pollution and create livable, vibrant communities.
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