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Every week, we roam the blogs of our member organizations and round up the most interesting tidbits. This week: advocates plan biking and walking summits across the United States, bike boxes pop up in San Diego and Wisconsin, and several legislative fights heat up. 

For grassroots bike advocates, it's now easier than ever before to engage PeopleForBikes' 850,000+ supporters on state and local issues. Here's how. 

One weekend. Over 120 biking and walking advocacy leaders. A beautiful Pennsylvania retreat center. See photos of the retreat that prompted one advocacy leader to write, "I didn't know I needed this."

The best time to start planning your end-of-year fundraising campaign was last month. The second best time is NOW. Get expert advice from two bike advocacy development directors on how to plan an awesome fall giving campaign.

Every week, we roam the blogs of our member organizations and round up the most interesting tidbits. This week: advocates, kids, and parents get active as they settle into trips to and from school.  

Could private funding be an option for financing biking and walking projects and programs? In a new resource from Advocacy Advance, we show how bicycling and walking can fit into public-private partnerships, also known as P3. 

Does everybody walk and bike, or are there differences in gender, income, age, and race? In this excerpt from the 2014 Benchmarking Report, we take a look at who bikes and walks in the United States. 

Every week, we roam the blogs of our member organizations and round up the most interesting tidbits. This week: advocates get back to work after a week in Pennsylvania at the Leadership Retreat, Pro Walk / Pro Bike / Pro Place, and Future Bike. 

Most biking and walking advocacy organizations are registered as nonprofits. But when it comes to elections, the two main types of legal nonprofit – 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) – come along with very different permitted activities. 

A new round of grants from Advocacy Advance – the partnership between the Alliance and the League of American Bicyclists – will award $10,000 each to three organizations on the vanguard of biking and walking advocacy.