Donations
NBW’s Annual Report to Donors and Community Members is available for download as a pdf.
Help keep the wheels rolling at Neighborhood Bike Works (all donations are tax-deductible!)
- Make a secure online donation via Just Give. Just click here.
- Send a check to Neighborhood Bike Works, 3916 Locust Walk, Philadelphia PA 19104.
- Become an official program sponsor. Email andy AT neighborhoodbikeworks DOT org to learn how.
- Donate your old bikes, tools, and parts. Please read our In-Kind Donation Guidelines first.
- If you can’t donate outright, consider taking part in our adults’ programming. Volunteer, attend an adult class, or patronize the Divine Bike Church. All proceeds — and all volunteer hours — benefit our Earn a Bike classes and other youth programs.
In-kind Donation Guidelines
Things we especially like include:
- BMX (”trick”) style bikes. These are the most popular with our students.
- Road bikes, mountain bikes, and cruisers of all sizes.
- Classic bikes. Bring on the banana seats, the rod brakes, the vintage track bikes. We’ll find someone to love it like it deserves to be loved.
- Tandems, rickshaws, adult trikes, etc. which are ready for the road. Again, useful for the fleet and for parades.
- Spare parts, tools, cycling clothes, lights, helmets, panniers, and other accessories.
- Grease and rags! Things get used up pretty quickly, and we always need more.
- Wind trainers, rollers, etc.
- Office supplies and snacks including: pens, pencils, stamps, copy paper, water, gift certificates to local food stores, and non-perishable foods like dried fruit, nuts, pretzels, etc. We can also always use volunteers and money!
Things we can’t use:
- Things which are not actually bicycles: scooters, roller-skates, exercise bikes, wheelchairs, children’s toy tricycles, and so on.
- Bicycles meant for very young children. Our youngest students are eight; most are in middle school. While we need lots of bikes with 20″ wheels, we can’t use smaller bikes.
- Very low-end bicycles. If it came from a big box store and cost less than $100, it’s probably more work to maintain than it’s worth. Likewise, if it weighs 50 pounds and has steel wheels and isn’t vintage or otherwise seriously cool, not many people will want to put the effort into bringing it back to life.
- Very badly damaged bicycles. If you bent, buckled, or broke the frame in an accident, or if you can’t see the frame for the rust, it’s not safe. Sometimes we can salvage parts from these. If you’re donating a bike for salvage and frame damage isn’t readily apparent, please alert the person accepting your donation.
Please note:
- We can’t do pickups. We’re sorry; we just don’t have the resources. If you really can’t get it to West Philadelphia, please try your local thrift store.
- Please check in with us before you walk, ride, or drive by with your donation. Hours change seasonally, and we don’t want to waste your time.
- We won’t buy your bike. We don’t do trade-ins. Please don’t ask us to make an exception for you. It’s not you, it’s a liability issue.
Have a panasonic AL 7000 road bike. 7 speed.
Needs tires & tubes. Seat tube ear on frame that tightens on seat tube is snapped. Bike shop made a special seat post which has a goose neck tensioning mechanism. Pain to adjust seat but once its set it holds with no problem. Have been riding bike for 15 years, no safety issues. Bought a new bike so this one is going in trash…Are you interested?
Hi,
We used to own Biketopia in Havertown, and although we have already donated a bunch of stuff to you last year, we still have some biking shoes and a few hemlets. These items are in my car at the moment (my 17 year old tried to sell what we had left at a flea market to fund her Girl Scout Trip to Italy this coming summer…she did well, but there’s still a bunch left).
We would like to donate them to you ASAP. Everything is NEW (the boxes look a bit beat up from storage in the garage AND from moving them around, but all the items are NEW).
Please call me as soon as you see this so I can bring them to you. I’d prefer to to do this today if somebody sees this (it’s Sunday)…to avoid the insanity of getting in the city with the SEPTA strike.
My cell # is 484-431-0847 - this is the only # to reach me at as we no longer have a land line in our home. I am in Havertown and need about 30 minutes notice to meet someone to drop this stuff off.
Also wanted to add that you guys have a great program with the local youth and it’s so nice to see people care and get involved. :o)
Thanks again!
Pam Brigandi
Girl Scout Troop Leader 5160/51211
Service Unit Manager, Haverford Township Girl Scouts
I have an older (15 years?) Motobecane 10 speed in good condition but needs tires and tubes and some basic maintenance. I would like to donate it if you can use it. If so are donate hours the same as office hours?