Tag: elizabeth kiker

January 28, 2015

Cascade Bicycle Club may drop endorsements and direct election advocacy

Cascade Bicycle Club is currently considering major changes to their organizational structure that could end their ability to endorse political candidates or directly assist in their campaigns. This would be a significant change in the club’s advocacy goal to “educate and elect leaders, no matter their political stripe, who will prioritize passing laws and funding…
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tagged: 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), cascade bicycle club, catherine hennings, elizabeth kiker
November 13, 2014

Cascade’s new Bicycling Center has grand opening Saturday + Will move office by bike Nov 30

Cascade Bicycle Club is moving their office across Magnuson Park to a renovated lakefront building. But they’re hoping the new headquarters will be more than just an office. With space for members to gather and some event and programming space, the Cascade Bicycling Center could become a hub of bike culture in Seattle. Or at…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, cascade bicycling center, elizabeth kiker, kelli refer, magnuson park, move by bike
November 4, 2014

UW accepts bike-friendly campus award, leaders talk about how to expand biking even further

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is by Jack Truitt, a UW News Lab student. It is published here as part of a partnership between Seattle Bike Blog and News Lab. Biking needs to become an issue of climate change and personal health in order to escape the category of fitness hobby, according to the president of…
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tagged: andy clarke, bicycle friendly university, Charles Kennedy, elizabeth kiker, holly houser, jack truitt, league of american bicyclists, Nancy Rottle, news lab, scott kubly, uw
August 28, 2014

Poll: Nearly every resident wants safe routes to Washington schools

If you think it’s a bad idea to make walking and biking routes around schools in Washington State safer, congratulations! You are a rare find. A statewide phone poll commissioned by the Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition found that a nearly unanimous 88 percent of state residents believes we should be planning our communities so that…
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tagged: barb chamberlain, blake trask, cascade bicycle club, childhood obesity prevention coalition, elizabeth kiker, safe routes to school, washington bikes
August 19, 2014

Aken picked as Cascade’s new Advocacy Director, more staff changes coming

Jeff Aken has been promoted from his job as Principal Planner at Cascade Bicycle Club to fill the Advocacy Director position vacated recently by Thomas Goldstein. Aken said his advocacy style is all about collaboration, and his goal is to focus on “all-ages and abilities bike infrastructure and increasing funding, obviously, to get those things…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, elizabeth kiker, emily kathrein, jeff aken
January 3, 2014

What do you think of Cascade’s new logo?

Cascade Bicycle Club has unveiled a new logo for the new year. Finally bidding farewell to the long-running, sans-serif-in-italics logo. The new logo has a more corporate and clean look featuring a “C” wrapped around half a chain link. The logo change comes amid a string of changes at the club since Elizabeth Kiker took…
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tagged: anne-marije rook, cascade bicycle club, elizabeth kiker