{"id":33,"date":"2020-08-11T17:08:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2020-11-22T19:50:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T01:50:11","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/our-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"33\" class=\"elementor elementor-33\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c70adfe elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c70adfe\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cfa280d\" data-id=\"cfa280d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d5c0adb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d5c0adb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bike Easy was founded as the Metro Bicycle Coalition of New Orleans in 2003 when a group of dedicated volunteers came together to advocate for dedicated funding for bicycle infrastructure. In 2004, the nascent organization had its first win with \u201c5% for Bikes\u201d when the City of New Orleans allocated 5% of a bond measure to supporting bike infrastructure.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2008, the Metro Bicycle Coalition of New Orleans formalized and became a 501c3 non-profit organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2010, the Metro Bicycle Coalition of New Orleans hired its first staff member &#8211; Executive Director, Jamie Wine. Later that year, the organization was rebranded to become Bike Easy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From that point the organization began growing quickly, adding more educational programming, community events, and advocacy wins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the years, many dedicated Board Members, staff, Members, volunteers, funders, sponsors, partners, and supporters have contributed immense time, effort, and resources to achieving the mission Bike Easy. Many thanks especially to dedicated staff members, past and present, including Jamie Wine, Marin Tockman, Anneka Olson, Naomi Doerner, Virginia Brisley, Dan Favre, Keith Holt, Laura Harris, Rob Henig Bell, Heather Haylett, David Meza, Ashley Mills, Allene La Spina, Katie Hunter-Lowry, Elon Glickman, and Dana Marecheau.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The number of&nbsp; Board Members, volunteers, supporters, and partners who have helped the organization grow in size and impact is too large to list them all. The success of this organization is truly owed to support from the Greater New Orleans community. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bikeeasy.nationbuilder.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Become a Bike Easy Member<\/a> today to keep it rolling!<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bike Easy was founded as the Metro Bicycle Coalition of New Orleans in 2003 when a group of dedicated volunteers came together to advocate for dedicated funding for bicycle infrastructure&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}