Together We’re Building a Community of Service, Compassion, and Inclusion

A participant in BBP’s Shifting Gears Program directing a BASH (Bicycle and Safety Hour) course with Agency for New Americans during Idaho Gives 2025.

Wow !!! What an incredible Idaho Gives campaign for BBP and the community we serve! We are so floored by the outpouring of support, and want to take a moment to celebrate the community we have here in Boise, and share how absolutely inspiring it is to see hundreds of people show up over and over and over again.

It really is special that the same people who donate to support our programs, stuff envelopes or help us phone bank during Idaho Gives are the same people who testify at the Idaho state capital, who ride to apartments across town to fix bikes, or who wait in the freezing rain to make sure that each kid’s Holiday Kids Bike Giveaway is a lifetime memory.

What’s truly remarkable is to witness hundreds of different people show up for their neighbors, hundreds of times, in hundreds of different ways. Which is all to say - together we can do it. $120,000 dollars is an incredible amount of money to raise for programs for underserved members of our community, but when our grassroots community joins together we can do incredible things.

BBP’s history is literally composed of linked moments showing a grassroots community that organizes to pull off extraordinary accomplishments … whether that’s buying the building that we operate out of today, safely hosting a Covid-edition 2020 Holiday Kids Bike Giveaway, or launching Boise’s first Open Streets event, we’re able to to make it happen - together.

I think that’s something truly inspiring and important to keep in mind in a year that has been, and will likely continue to be challenging for the community we serve. Together we can rise to the occasion, together we can advocate for all members of our community – especially the disenfranchised - and together we can continue to build towards a city and state that reflect our values of service, compassion and inclusion.

It’s incredibly humbling to be at the nexus so many people who are willing to show up as their best selves, and from the bottom of our hearts, the BBP staff and myself would like to say thank you for how you show up, and that we are ready to keep rolling forward - together.

With Gratitude,

Devin