about us

Our mission and vision

Submitted by rebecca on Tue, 2008-06-24 16:39

At the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition, we're your voice for better biking!

Our mission
To create a healthier, more sustainable Atlanta by making it safer, easier, and more attractive to bicycle for fun, fitness, and transportation.

Our vision
Bicycling helps everyone, not just those who ride bicycles, by creating a higher overall quality of life through improved public health, cleaner air, less congestion, and stronger communities.

ABC 5 year strategic plan

Submitted by rebecca on Wed, 2011-07-13 15:03

Our strategic plan, ratified July 12, 2011 by the ABC board of directors, is attached below. While we will look to this document to guide our activities and set priorities, it will also be a living document that will grow and change with the times. Key goals include ensuring the proposed regional transportation sales tax includes significant funding for bicycle projects, building a mountain bike park inside the city of Atlanta, adopting Complete Streets policies, improving outreach/communications, representing all kinds of cyclists, dramatically increasing the number of ABC members, and growing the staff and board. 

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ABC strategic planning update

Submitted by rebecca on Mon, 2011-06-06 18:17

Thanks to all the volunteers, members, and stakeholders who have participated in our strategic planning process this year! If you haven't had a chance to review this plan yet, please take a look and share your feedback by emailing our strategic planning consultant (his contact info is in the attachment). Thanks for your input!

Annual reports and 990s

Annual Reports
2010 (Graphs will be updated with final financial statements soon.)
2009 (We began offering annual reports in 2009.)

990s
2010
2009

ABC 2011 Advocacy Goals

Submitted by rebecca on Tue, 2011-02-01 14:58

At ABC, advocacy is not our middle name, it's our first name. Read on for our 2011 advocacy goals, then volunteer to help us make them happen by joining a committee (ABC or Atlanta Streets Alive), contacting your local elected officials, or writing a letter to the editor of your local newspaper or favorite blog.

A look back at 20 years of bike advocacy

Submitted by rebecca on Wed, 2011-01-05 18:07

Over the years we've had our wins (bikes on MARTA, the 1996 Olympics, Connect Atlanta Plan, Atlanta Streets Alive) and our losses (every traffic calming project that replaced formerly bikable space with curb extensions). After the break you'll find a few highlights shared during our 2010 board retreat - please add your own in the comments section!

We'll have a presentation with video and photos during the 20th anniversary celebration later this year. As might be expected after two decades, we have a ton of pictures, so we're just getting started...

Our office

As of July 5th, our new address, on the same block as the old, is 213 Mitchell Street SW Atlanta, GA 30303.

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Our staff

Submitted by rebecca on Wed, 2009-09-09 09:47

ABC is a small nonprofit that relies heavily on the expertise and generosity of our volunteers! Our staff includes Executive Director Rebecca Serna, Membership and Program Manager Drue Hocker, Education and Outreach Manager Hamzat Sani, Cycling Instructor Neil Walker, and intern Lauren Cardoni. Please read more for individual bios.

Ride posting policy

Submitted by rebecca on Wed, 2009-03-25 15:49

So you are planning an amazing ride, and you'd like to promote it on ABC's website. Understandable. But as you might imagine, we get swamped with requests to post rides on our site. What you might not realize is that we are a very small nonprofit with a tiny staff, so our policy is to only post rides that are organized by ABC, offer ABC members a discount, or benefit our programs financially.

ABC changes name to Atlanta Bicycle Coalition

Submitted by rebecca on Tue, 2009-03-17 19:59

ABC's board and members voted to change our name to Atlanta Bicycle Coalition to reflect our belief that it will take a community-wide effort to create a bicycle-friendly Atlanta. We remain deeply committed to the advocacy work implied in "campaign" but within the framework of a coalition of organizations, businesses, government and individuals working together to effect change. As Albert Einstein observed, “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”

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