New Bikes for Kids-Hurricane Harvey Recovery Areas

Can’d Aid’s People Powered Do-Goodery Reaches 95 Communities and More Than 3,000 Kids

Dedicated Volunteers and Generous Partners Fuel Can’d Aid’s Most Impactful Year Yet

Can’d Aid, a publicly funded national nonprofit based in Colorado, continued to push the boundaries with innovative programs and nontraditional methods, which yielded impressive results in 2019. Individual donors, grants, earned income and corporate partners brought in a total of $1.1 Million last year, allowing the organization to spread its people powered do-goodery to 95 communities across the nation. 

Can’d Aid made a big impact in 70 Title I schools, donating 1,000 instruments to music programs and providing new bicycles, skateboards and helmets to 1,687 students. Mother Earth also benefited greatly from Can’d Aid projects in 2019, as volunteers worked to cleanup and restore 10 waterways across the country, removing 2,690 pounds of trash and recycling 183 pounds of waste.

 The impact of Can’d Aid’s Tunes program grew exponentially in 2019, as the program added 10 bands to its growing roster of ambassadors who help inspire the next generation of musicians through instrument donations and music workshops with underserved youth around the country. This year, Can’d Aid also launched an exciting creative partnership with Rock and Roll Playhouse, a national concert series for families. Rock and Roll Playhouse donates a portion of every concert ticket sold to Can’d Aid’s Tunes program and the two organizations look forward to what the collaboration will bring in 2020.

Can’d Aid’s Impact in 2019

• $1.1 Million total funds raised
• 95 Communities reached

Tunes Program - Inspiring the next generation of musicians and artists

• 1,000 musical instruments donated to Title I schools
• 42 music workshops conducted by nationally touring bands
• 18 bands helped to raise fund and conduct workshops
• 1,110 art kits created for children in foster care
• 104 volunteers spent 685 hours creating community murals

Treads + Trails – Empowering kids to get outside

• 1,186 new bikes and helmets donated to students at Tile I schools
• 501 new skateboards donated
• 28 schools and communities impacted

Love Yur Mama – Protecting Mother Earth

• 15 new recycling programs launched
• 10 cleanups conducted along local waterways
• 17,420 pounds of waste recycled

Texas Specific Update:
In December of 2019, Can’d Aid helped 2 schools in Harris County, Texas. Please see below for donation specifics and school demographics. Can’d Aid is grateful for the support from the GlobalGiving community and we have already started 2020 with programming in still recovering Hurricane Harvey affected areas.

Jefferson Elementary School, 5000 Sharman Street, Houston, TX 77009, Dec 16^th, 2019

• Volunteer Bike build at Eureka Heights Brewing with over 60 volunteers
• 70 bikes for 1^st grade class, live assembly with Jeff Lenosky
• Title 1 School: YES
• Title 1 School-wide Program: YES

Free lunch eligible: 383, Reduced-price lunch eligible: 30

 Field Elementary School, 17^th Street, Houston, TX 77008, Dec 17^th, 2019

• Volunteer Bike build at 11 Below Brewing with over 50 volunteers
• 93 bikes for 1^st grade class, live assembly with Jeff Lenosky
• Title 1 School: YES
• Title 1 School-wide Program: YES 

Free lunch eligible: 367, Reduced-price lunch eligible: 45

Links:

• Surprise for students: local kids given brand new bikes
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