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Grants Fuel Bike Advocacy Efforts

Build & Ride recently received a grant of $5,000 from Ameriquest Mortgage Co. That award is but one of a number of grants recently provided to support Chicagoland Bicycle Federation’s work.

Boeing Company awarded $20,000 this month to CBF to organize communities that Sunday Parkways will traverse. Sunday Parkways – an initiative that was highlighted in last month’s Bike Traffic – transforms automobile-ridden streets into healthy, active living spaces that are open to all forms of active recreation.

CBF is doing the grassroots work that will determine the long-term success of Sunday Parkways. Local endorsement is what should drive the event, and CBF is the agency at the table with government and municipal powerbrokers, as well as the churches and local community groups, who are affected.

CBF also was awarded $18,000 from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation to support work in the Southland to make the Cal-Sag Trail a reality. CBF is working with more than a dozen Southland communities to bring the 26-mile Cal-Sag multi-use trail to their areas. The Cal-Sag Trail would be the only east-west non-motorized corridor in Illinois. Support from the Donnelley Foundation enables CBF to organize all the communities along the proposed corridor to sign an intergovernmental agreement showing support for this project.

Timberland awarded $5,000 to CBF for the Healthy Streets Campaign, a coalition of stakeholders that addresses wide-ranging issues such as aggressive driving, traffic engineering and public health.