BerkeleyCA Bikes Academy
Raised of $25,000 USD
CA Bikes academy will teach bay area at risk youth welding skills: brazing skills, basic machine shop skills & skills needed to make bicycles. This knowledge will make our graduates marketable while looking for jobs
in this economic situation where employment opportunities are hard to find for anyone and even harder for those without a hands-on type of skill.
The products made will be sent to Africa through our sister Organization CA Bikes Uganda and distributed to people in need.
Tipping Point Goal: $25,000
Our tipping point is the minimum level of funding we need to get up and running with minimum equipment. Our tipping point will specifically allow us to have:
Working space
Simple machining tools like jigs, a brazing station, gloves, and masks.
This will get us rolling with our first students on bicycle frame building.
Total Funding Goal: $70,000
Helping us go beyond our tipping point will ensure that we get more machines like lathe, mills, & drills to increase the services we offer and most importantly build more bicycles, which will reach out to more people in Africa. Our total funding amount will
also help us build a CA Bikes Academy website.
Our eternal gratitude, a thank you note from our staff, and permanent recognition on our website as a founding contributor
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All rewards at the previous level plus a t-shirt with CA Bikes Academy Logo; and chance to sit-in on one of the brazing or welding classes.
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All rewards at the previous level plus A thank-you note from the students that benefit from this straight from Africa
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All rewards at the previous level plus a thank you video from the beneficiaries, CA Bikes Bike bag and a 30 minutes chat with the founder
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All rewards at the previous level plus a thank you video from the beneficiaries, CA Bikes Bike bag & cycling jersey and a 30 minutes chat with the founder
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All rewards at the previous level plus CA Bikes cycling Jersey, behind the scenes pictures as we set up the machine shop and a special tour of the shop when it opens.
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All rewards at the previous level & since your contribution at this level provides critical support to getting started; we will give you the honor of choosing up to five beneficiaries from our data base who you wish to be the recipients for up to 5 bicycles. You will get a personalized bike made produced by the students and made special for you.
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All rewards at the previous level & since your contribution is very important; as a thank you we will give you the Mega Perk.We will invite you to a special tour to Uganda we have arranged a tour with the help of Ugandan Tour Company to give the experience of a Life time (Accomodation,food, local transportation, park entry fees all paid for); where you get to learn about the people, the culture and also get to visit the beneficiaries you are helping support. That’s not all while in Uganda we will take you on tours in the National parks to see Gorrillas, chimpanzee monkeys etc all in their natural habitat. You just don’t want to miss this. ( ticket to and fro Uganda not included)
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