Tag: seattle pedaling relief project

October 28, 2022

Save the date: A next-level Cranksgiving 2022 is November 19

It’s been three years since the last proper Cranksgiving. Thanks to everyone who participated in our dramatically scaled-back pandemic versions in 2020 and 2021. But I think it’s time to get together again and do it right. Or better yet, go bigger than ever before. We have some very fun changes coming for Seattle’s 13th…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, cranksgiving, cranksgiving 2022, maxwell burton, seattle pedaling relief project
May 5, 2021

Cascade makes the Pedaling Relief Project permanent

The Seattle Pedaling Relief Project (“SPRP”) started in the spring of 2020 as a way to help food banks deal with the sudden influx of people who needed to access their services at a time when COVID restrictions made it more difficult for people to get there. The SPRP was initially designed as a “cargo…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, maxwell burton, mike lang, seattle pedaling relief project, tamara schmautz
November 23, 2020

Cranksgiving 2020 is now rolling. You have until Saturday to complete the scavenger hunt

The after-party is live! Watch: It’s on. Seattle’s 11th Annual Cranksgiving community-supporting bike adventure is rolling all week. Find your online scavenger hunt manifest here. You have until 3 p.m. Saturday to complete as many of the tasks as possible. You are then invited to an online after-party starting at 3. As with every Seattle…
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tagged: cranksgiving, cranksgiving 2020, ellis foundation, facing homelessness, rainier valley food bank, seattle pedaling relief project, swift industries
November 2, 2020

The Seattle Pedaling Relief Project will bike your ballot to a drop box

The Seattle Pedaling Relief Project has been organizing volunteer efforts to deliver food and necessities from food banks to community members for months. Now they want to help people get their ballots to the ballot box. If you need assistance getting your ballot delivered for any reason, fill out this form online. If you want…
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July 29, 2020

Saturday: ‘Sani Cycle’ bike ride scavenger hunt to support food banks with non-food necessities

The term “food bank” has long been a misnomer because these organizations provide community members with so much more than food. Food donations are always great, of course, but so are the other necessities like diapers, menstrual products, soap, toothbrushes and so much more. So the Seattle Pedaling Relief Project, noting the need for more…
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July 15, 2020

Watch: ‘This is no longer a Disaster Relief Trials, this is disaster relief’

Maxwell Burton and Michael Lang had started organizing the 2020 Disaster Relief Trials, a cargo-hauling bike competition, when the COVID-19 outbreak hit. As soon as schools closed down in the spring, Lang and Burton realized their mission had just changed. The Disaster Relief Trials (“DRT”) is “a trial competition that’s meant to simulate a natural…
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tagged: covid-19, maxwell burton, seattle pedaling relief project