Neighborhood Bike Works is hiring for a Lead Bicycle Mechanic for our North Philly shop, located at 1426 Susquehanna Avenue. Start date: March 22, 2010. The full job description is available on our website as a PDF: http://www.neighborhoodbikeworks.org/NBWMechanicJobDescription.pdf. (If you can’t view it, click here to download Adobe Acrobat Reader for free.)
To apply, send a cover letter and resume by email to cat@neighborhoodbikeworks.org (Cat Bergeron, North Philly Shop Manager). Please CC your application to andy@neighborhoodbikeworks.org (Andy Dyson, Executive Director).
NBW was honored to receive the 2010 Spiral Q Award for Sustainability at Q-LICIOUS. Thanks, Spiral Q!
Press about the event and NBW’s award:
Puppet theater honors community leaders in V-Day gala, Philadelphia Gay News.
Q Love Fest, City Paper Arts & Entertainment Blog.
Check out this great article featuring Bike Works in yesterday’s Inquirer! You can see it in the newspaper or on their website:
Inside the Academy of Natural Sciences, weighty topics were being hashed out - the design of cities, how we get around them, and how they make us feel.
Outside, David Bevacqua and Sean Betts were parking bikes. A lot of them.
In their free “valet” bike-parking area, a project of the Neighborhood Bike Works, about 50 sets of wheels were propped in racks.
(click here to read the rest of the article)
Our NBW Temple location in North Philly will be opening soon, on Susquehanna Ave. near Broad St. Our long awaited additional storefront will have youth programs and Bike-Church-style adult sessions.
We need volunteers! Right now we need some hands to build work benches and tool boards, some truckers to help us move crates of parts and bikes from our headquarters, and general help setting up. We will soon need volunteers to assist with the youth classes and during the adult-use sessions.
Besides volunteers we also need donations! What we need:
- lumber
- screws and nails
- heavy duty shelves
- non-heavy duty shelves
- a table and chairs (that can fit about 12 kids)
- paint
- a big sink
- brooms, garbage pan, other basic things that belong in a bike shop
- office supplies (including a computer!)
- school/art supplies (SCISSORS!! MARKERS!)
- rags
- a stereo and speakers
If you would like to donate any of this stuff or you want to volunteer, please contact Cat at cat@neighborhoodbikeworks.org or call 215-386-0316.
The Haddington Shop is *moving* this weekend. As of Sunday, the Haddington Shop will be located at 230 N. Salford Street, just around the corner from 60th & Vine. Here’s a handy map:
We need volunteers to help us set up the new shop - if you’re interested, please email Olivia, our volunteer coordinator, at volunteers@neighborhoodbikeworks.org.
We’re pleased to announce that Neighborhood Bike Works has been awarded a very generous two-year grant from the Tuttleman Family Foundation, in memory of Stanley Tuttleman. This grant will support our new NBW Temple location in North Philly, part of the Bike Temple partnership. NBW Temple will offer youth and adult programs to the community, and a workshop for Temple students, staff, and faculty who want to work on their bikes.
We are so grateful to the Tuttleman family for their support of this new initiative.
We’re excited to report that NBW, along with a committed group of volunteers in Norristown, is getting ready to hold our inaugural Earn a Bike class at our location in Elmwood Park. We have secured a space, prepared for the class, and raised almost the full $5,000 we need to run the class (click here to donate and bring us closer to our goal!). What we’re looking for now: lumber donations and volunteers.
We need lumber to finish getting the Norristown location ready. What we need:
- eight 2×4x8’s
- eight 2×6x8’s
- two 4×4x8’s
- two sheets of 5/8 to 3/4 plywood (to make a closet door), or a door that can be cut down, and a couple of hinges.
We need volunteers for the Earn-a-Bike class. You don’t need to know about bike repair, you just need to like working with kids. Classes will be held twice a week Monday through Friday from 4pm to 6pm at Elmwood Park in Norristown. All volunteers will need to attend an orientation session that will be announced within the next week. We will also need volunteers for group rides, to repair bikes that we sell to raise money, and other projects. If you are interested in volunteering please send an e-mail to norristownnbw@gmail.com and visit our website at http://sites.google.com/site/nbwofnorristown and subscribe to the RSS feed in the announcements page.
Click here to read The Art of Cycling, a terrific article about NBW’s Bike Part Art Show in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer.
"Bookends," by Mike Shih, one of the works to be displayed at the Bike Part Art Show.
NBW received a check for $360 from Frankenstein Bike Worx for royalties from the design of the Street Cred urban fixed gear! Andy Dyson and Josh Case went over to the shop to receive the check from Jeff Harris.
Olivia has joined us as the new Volunteer Coordinator after an awesome summer of counseling our summer campers! If you have any interest in volunteering, contact Olivia at volunteers@neighborhoodbikeworks.org! Welcome Olivia! Yay!
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