It's a Match! Double Your Donation

Dear Friends,

Help us make Newport a truly Bike Friendly Community, a city where it’s so safe, convenient and inviting for anyone to walk or bike, that we ultimately reduce the number of cars and busses on our overcrowded, overburdened streets by hundreds or even thousands per day. That's where we're heading ... together.

For all its beauty and history, for its small size, our City by the Sea is meant to be walked and bicycled. With your help, we can make that happen. One bike rack, one bike lane, one road safety class at a time.

WE ALREADY SEE the future Bike Friendly Newport. Just look around the city. Thanks to you and other supporters of bicycle culture, our fledgling organization has made a great impact in just three short years. Newport even earned the Bronze designation as a Bike Friendly Community from the League of American Bicyclists, thanks to our close partnership with the City.

Newly striped bike lanes on Memorial Boulevard. Work underway on America’s Cup. Lighted helmets and reflective vests for bike-reliant commuters. Dozens of children riding their first bikes – bikes they repaired with their own hands. From safer road-sharing to improved bike-friendly streets, from more bike parking to more people biking, Newport can see and feel the results of our hard work.

But, we’ve still got a ways to go.

Bike Love: Help Us Make It Grow

We’ve got big plans to make Newport a lot more bike friendly in 2015. We need your help to reach thousands of riders and motorists with safe road-sharing information, and to put hundreds of new cyclists of all ages safely in the saddle.

You can help us to spread the Bike Love that will transform Newport into the Bike Friendly Community it is meant to be.

And if you give now, we can double your love!

Thanks to our matching gift challenge, every dollar contributed between now and January 31, up to a total of $25,000, will be matched dollar for dollar by a generous donor.

Want to know more about Bike Newport? We’re just a visit away from sharing much more with you. Just let us know – with a call to (401) 619-4900 or an email (use a link in our signatures below.) We’ll be happy to share what we do, what we plan, and how you can help make it happen.

Read 2014 By the Numbers to see some highlights of our progress in 2015. Click here to send us your snail mail if you haven't already.

Thank you for being part of Bike Newport. And thank you in advance for helping us to continue our work. Our supporters and partners are the wind behind our wheels.

Yours sincerely,

The Bike Newport Team:

Bari Freeman, Executive Director

Mark Chesterton, Director of Education 

Liza Burkin, Program Manager  

Board of Directors:

Deanna Conheeny, President

Allison McNally, Vice President

Dawn Euer, Treasurer

Laura Murphy, Secretary

Sarah Whitehouse Atkins

Peter Harty

Don Jagoe

Renee Kaminitz

Jim Ryan