Organizations Filed Purposes:
To provide opportunities for economically disadvantaged persons to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and obtain housing with bicycle-based transportation and bicycle repair skills education.
Community Tools:In 2020 Shop Committee navigated COVID Pandemic by appropriately closing the shop for public health and then re-opening only after safety precautions for both customers and employees were in place.Since then we operated through our side gate for 133 days of the year, providing the community with more than 900 sliding-scale bicycle repairs, 368 refurbished bicycles and affordable new and use parts through various local and national shortages.We also provided 32 of our Essential Bicycles ($0 safety-checked bicycles) to those most in need. Our wonderful customers supported us so well in our shop operations that we hired 4 new staff late in the year and facilitated their full training through the curriculum laid out in our established Build-a-Bike program, as well as advanced and ongoing mechanical, business and clerical trainings specific to the work we do.Shop Committee has continued to ensure that the salvage part of our mission continues running. Throughout pandemic we have generously received mountains of used bicycles and gear donations that we have either gotten back on the road or recycled with our partners Recyco.
Other programs: Outreach and volunteers, WTF program, continuing education
Art Outreach in COVID-19:Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the BICAS Art program scheduled a series of upcycled art workshops that included tire planters with Tucsons Primavera Foundation, aluminum bicycle part windchimes with the BICAS staff, and cardweaving with local weaver Alex Isawa. These workshops were cancelled due to COVID-19 but an online windchime workshop was held with Southern Arizona Alliance for Culture and the Arts (SAACA) with 842 views. Prior to the pandemic, a youth painting activity was held with 9 participants at the BICAS shop. Weekly Pandemic ArtmakingBICAS staff prepared parts for art projects and worked on art projects for a cumulative time that surpassed 40 hours during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Art program plans to open up weekly art-making time to the public as soon as safely possible to provide community service hours and share the resources and tools of the art area.2020 Online Mini-Art Auction on eBayThe BICAS 25th annual Recycled Bicycle Art Auction was held online in December 2020 to promote recycled art and creative community in the greater Tucson area. 21 artists from the staff and board contributed 22 art pieces that were bid on over a one-week period by 72 trackable participants. BICAS looks forward to holding its standard community-wide auction however safely possible in December 2021.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Vanessa Gallego | ChairTreasurer | 10 | $0 |
| Rachel Wedig | Secretary | 10 | $0 |
| Colin Holmes | Board Member | 15 | $0 |
Data for this page was sourced from XML published by IRS (
public 990 form dataset) from:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/irs-form-990/202141169349300719_public.xml