Ciclismo Cares

Bringing Dreams to Life Locally and Globally

• Pan-Massachusetts Challenge

  

  Lauren has ridden the Pan-Mass Challenge for 19 years, logging 3,500 miles and raising over $100,000 for cancer research. The Pan-Mass Challenge raises money for life-saving cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through its Jimmy Fund. The centerpiece of its fundraising effort is an annual bike-a-thon with several routes across Massachusetts.

• Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition

  

  Lauren is on MassBike’s board of directors and the Ciclismo Classico team supports many of MassBike’s events statewide, including Bike Night, the Mass Bike Fest, and the Mass Bike Pike Tour, through sponsorship, advisement and participation. We donate the proceeds of our annual Jingle Ride to this statewide advocacy organization. The primary purposes of MassBike are: to serve and protect the interests of the bicycling public in Massachusetts: to promote the bicycle as a healthy, enjoyable, efficient, and environment-friendly means of transportation and recreation; to promote a physical geographic context and vehicular traffic environment that enhance these qualities; and to ensure the safety of transportation by bicycle.

• Sustainable Business Network

  

  Ciclismo Classico is an active member of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Boston. SBN is a community of business leaders who work together to promote a high level of ethical and environmental standards that support a productive and fulfilling workplace and community. This is done through various educational programs, service projects, and advocacy for socially responsible business practices and policies. In 2010, Ciclismo Classico and fellow members raised over $40,000 for earthquake relief in Haiti.

• Safe Routes to School

  

  Lauren is an active participant in her local chapter of Safe Routes to School and advocates in her hometown of Arlington, Massachusetts for better bike paths and The National Center for Safe Routes to School aims to assist communities in developing successful Safe Routes programs and strategies.

• Social Venture Network

  

  Social Venture Network (SVN) transforms the way the world does business by leveraging its members’ collective strengths of leadership, knowledge and enterprise for a more just and sustainable economy. Lauren embraces this group as her “tribe” of progressive thinkers and entrepreneurs who are making a difference in the world.

• Sustainable Travel International

  

  Sustainable Travel International (STI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing education and outreach services that help travelers, travel providers, and related organizations support environmental conservation and protect cultural heritage while promoting cross-cultural understanding and economic development.

• Bikes Belong

  

  Bikes Belong is the national coalition of bicycle suppliers and retailers working together to put more people on bicycles more often. Ciclismo annually contributes a portion of its profits to this action-oriented organization.