By Alison Graves, Executive Director What is total health and how do we build it? That was our charge on Monday, May 21, at the Kaiser Permanente Grantee Summit. More than 300 people gathered from dozens of organizations from around Oregon and Washington, all funded through the Kaiser Permanente Community Fund. Thanks to the Kaiser […]
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Nurturing the bike movement’s budding branches at the National Bike Summit
By Alison Graves, Executive Director The time had come for blooming at the National Bike Summit this year. For the first time since I’ve attended the annual gathering, the cherry boughs throughout the district were heavy with light pink fragrant flowers. Also for the first time since I’ve been attending, a new branch of the […]
Inspirational Youth Bike Summit in New York City
By Alison Graves, Executive Director of the Community Cycling Center
"This can’t be a bike event!" exclaimed my colleague, Keith Holt, of Milwau…
Equity Ride recap
Last Thursday, August 25th, the second annual Equity Ride took place, in the Lents neighborhood of SE Portland. Organized by Shelli Romero at the O…
Alliance for Biking & Walking – Executive Leadership Retreat
By Alison Graves, Executive Director of Community Cycling Center
Early last week I attended the Thunderhead Retreat II organized by the Alliance…