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BFBC is a grassroots advocacy organization of people of just like you working together to achieve a more bicycle-friendly city. We are nearly all volunteers. Your intelligence, creativity, and energy, and commitment are important to building and sustaining our movement.

How to Volunteer

Contact us via e-mail or by phone at 510-545-BFBC (545-2322). Please tell us your name, e-mail, phone, the best time to call you, and your availability.

Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities

We are always looking for people to help with:

BFBC is a grassroots advocacy organization of people of just like you working together to achieve a more bicycle-friendly city. We are nearly all volunteers. Your intelligence, creativity, and energy, and commitment are important to building and sustaining our movement.

How to Volunteer

Contact us via e-mail or by phone at 510-545-BFBC (545-2322). Please tell us your name, e-mail, phone, the best time to call you, and your availability.

Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities

We are always looking for people to help with:

Campaigns

  • Bicycle Boulevards
  • Bicycle parking
  • Bicycle-safety education
  • Pavement conditions
  • Safe Routes to Schools
  • Traffic calming
  • Downtown planning
  • Southside planning

Member services

  • General meetings. Meetings require people to organize them: plan a program, set up, clean up, etc. We would have more general meetings if we had more volunteers to help!
  • Minutes-taking. Make info on significant city meetings available to those who can’t attend.
  • Office help, data entry
  • Phone tree

Outreach

  • Flyering
  • Merchant liaison
  • Neighborhood liaison
  • Tabling
  • Special events
  • Valet bicycle parking

Professional skills

  • Artwork/Graphics
  • Legal
  • Macintosh wizard
  • Newsletter writing and/or editing
  • Small business management
  • Web skills

Your own idea

  • Other — what special ideas do you have?

For professional skills, please state your area(s) of expertise. Even though we already have a number of these skills, it would be great to have more people help out and to have gurus to consult with on occasion. We can always use well-written contributions to our regular e-mail bulletin and the web site, whether one-time or ongoing.