Bicycles for Bipolar
Fundraising Event

Bicycles for Bipolar and other brain disorders is an awareness and fundraising event designed for local NAMI Affiliates to work with local bicycling organizations to promote mental health awareness and raise funds for their respective organizations.

This fundraising event can be for mountain bike clubs, road bike clubs, or any organization that wishes to raise awareness around mental health, mental illness, and support NAMI's programs and local Affiliates.

This event differs from the NAMI Walk in that the bicycle club members do the awareness and fundraising. In order to do this, they must first become familiar with the local NAMI Affiliate or Support Group. This raises awareness about mental illness within the bicycle club.



Having successfully learned about mental illness and NAMI's programs, the bicycle club members then reach out to their family, friends, co-workers, and social networks, and the community; further spreading awareness. In this way, NAMI's message of hope and recovery can reach an audience that would otherwise not have heard it. This in turn benefits the bicycle club by showing the public that the club is giving back to the community.
 

In addition, since 1 in 4 families are affected by mental illness, many of the bicycle club members are living with mental illness themselves. Many of their friends, families, co-workers, and social networks are also living with mental illness. In this way, many people will learn about programs and services in their community that they can take advantage of.

Proceeds from the event are split between the local NAMI Affiliate or Support Group, the local bicycle organization, and NAMI Georgia.

For more details or to learn how to have a Bicycles for Bipolar event in your community, contact the NAMI Georgia Office at 770-234-0855. See below for events currently scheduled.
 

Event:
October 17, 2009

Tribble Mill Park
Lawrenceville, Ga.
 

 Registration     10 am
 Ride                   11 am

Hosts:
NAMI Gwinnett and Gwinnett Area Trail Riders (GATR)