Alan Schultz - Pedals for Progress
Alan Schultz CEO of Pedals for Progress (our shipper for the bike drives) spoke to the club this week.
Alan replaced P4P founder Dave Schweidenback when Dave retired as CEO in 2020. Alan was a former employee / volunteer and was familiar with the collection business already. He tells us operations are back to normal after the pandemic. He has already visited several countries in Europe, Africa and Latin America discussing new agreements and he told us about the new partnership in Belize.
Our club has been collecting bikes and sewing machines through P4P for over 15 years, a project originally started by member Jim Jones. Collections have grown from to nearly 100 bicycle in recent years since we started collecting year round. Things were slow during the pandemic as people were holding on to bikes. P4P is in their 32nd year of operation and has collected over 166,000 bicycles.
Our next collection is in 2 weeks on May 20th from 12p-3p at Norristown Area High School. If you have a bike to donate, bring it out or see Mark.