I just met with an incredible visionary named Palina who’s taking bold steps in creating an International Diaspora Museum in Idaho. She’s making the rounds, building partnerships, doing all the things you need to do in order to make something big happen. In this early visioning stage, you’re bound to have someone tell you or make you feel like it’s impossible. “Too big for Boise.” “Too many obstacles.” “Not enough funding.” But the reality is, a massive vision just has a massive series of boxes that need be checked, and the biggest obstacle is the tenacity it takes to keep checking them off… one at time… again and again.

When we launched the Boise Bicycle Project in 2007, there was nothing really tangible to point at, just a strong mission and series of ideas that led to an ultimate vision of transforming Boise into the “Bicycle Capital of America. Those ideas were/are the boxes, and for the last 13 years we’ve been tenaciously checking them off. I can’t tell you how many times people have doubted us, and how many times we’ve managed to take one more step forward.

In 2019, we checked off some big items, and we set ourselves up to check off some even bigger ones in 2020.

This Friday we’ll be going over the impact you helped us create last year. We’ll celebrate those victories with free pizza and drinks. And we’ll dive into the next massive things (Canal Pathways, 1000s of bikes to be donated, new programs in the works) we’re ready to take on in 2020. These goals, these steps forward, will be possible with your help, and that’s why we need you to be here, Friday January 31st, 6pm at BBP for the Annual Impact Meeting.

Join us as we create a plan to tenaciously check off some major boxes needed to make Boise the Bicycle Capital of America.