Anson’s Bike Buddies is a Columbia Gorge Non-Profit Organization. Anson is now a Hood River Valley High Schooler. Anson’s Bike Buddies started when Anson was eight as an idea formed in conjunction with Anson’s realization that there are children in his community who cannot afford a bicycle and the monthly service projects adopted by his school. Anson’s parents, Kristen Campbell and Jeff Pulk, and
his mentor, Jeff Craven, a Mountain View Cycles bike mechanic, supported Anson’s idea to create a service project aimed at collecting used bicycles, repairing them and partnering with other local non-profit organizations, such as The Next Door, to donate the bicycles to mid-Columbia children who may not otherwise have access to a bicycle. This idea became Anson’s Bike Buddies, a 501c3 non-profit organization with this mission: “Donate a Bike—Change a Life.”
Since its inception, Anson's Bike Buddies has evolved far beyond Anson and is truly a community organization, wholly dependent on an army of volunteers from every corner of the Gorge. We collect bicycles from our participating drop-off locations on a weekly basis. Bikes are brought back to our repair shop and inspected. If a bike cannot be repaired for reuse, we dismantle it and inspect each part for future use. Repaired bicycles are donated. Do you have a bicycle that you would like to donate in Hood River, Wasco, Klickitat or Skamania Counties or do you want to host a bike drive at your Church, School or place of work? Please go to www.ansonsbikebuddies.org to learn more. You can also drop off a bike at any of our drop-off locations which are year round donation sites for Anson’s Bike Buddies. If you are an organization that we could help by providing bikes to, please contact us to discuss your organization and needs and our qualifications and see if we can help. Are you interested on Volunteering for events? Do you want to help us fix bikes? Are you curious about upcoming events? Please visit www.ansonsbikebuddies.org to sign up.
