A Letter From Our Executive Director

In 2025, the Boise Bicycle Project was able to make huge impact while also demonstrating the true strength of what a connected, service minded community can do. Sitting in our empty shop space, it’s hard to believe how many community members come through these doors every single week, much less the incredible impact we are able to make together - 1,700 bicycles distributed per year, 2,500 people served in our shop space, roughly 1,000 met where they are at in the community, Boise’s first Traffic Garden space,  expanding life changing programs for young people and incarcerated women.

All of this work is truly only possible with a huge network of good-faith actors who draw from their own lived experiences to support other people. The most powerful example of this occurred at this year’s Holiday Kids Bike Giveaway event, when we were able to pair our 15,000th donated bicycle with a kiddo who had previously only dreamed of owning one. 

Stand alone, 15,000 is a staggering figure, but when you start to think about the number of hands that are involved to distribute even one of those bicycles - donating it, processing it, teaching someone to fix it, fixing it, decorating it, safety lessons - all until it makes it to that kid… we’re talking dozens of hands for each bicycle. Dozens of people who show up to make sure that another person has access to opportunity, to connection, to freedom and joy. 

Then when you take the turn, and think about how for each one of those 15,000 bicycles there’s dozens of people involved to make it a reality, you begin to see the scope and strength of a community that shows up for each other no matter what, that rallies around bicycles and understands the importance of how we show up for each other in that process - and you start to realize that it’s literally hundreds of thousands of people who show up for one another, who do the right thing, and invest into a community of inclusivity and support… and that with that many engaged community members we can do incredible things. 

So looking to 2026, we’re galvanized by a community that shows up no matter what, that lives up to our values and is ready to lean in with our shared strength and continue to make a community wide impact, one bicycle at a time, one person at a time.

• Devin McComas, Executive Director