Trips for Kids - Metro DC
TFK provides fun and educational mountain bike excursions for at-risk youth into Virginia, Maryland, and DC nature areas. We were voted "one of the best small charities in the Washington DC Region" by the Catalogue for Philanthropy for 2008/2009.
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Trips for Kids - Metro DC Prince William Forest - soul food for lost children. We reunited 12 young friends from trailer homes, basements and apartments. Seperated due to hardships, they enjoyed a day laughing together and clearing hazards from miles of hiking trails. Thier reward was supposed to be a nice ride and lunch, but most of them returned to TFK HQ to reminise, have dinner and goodby hugs. These days you can't script..

Trips for Kids - Metro DC

Trips for Kids - Metro DC
Stuart Levy will be participating in the 2010 Race Across the West in the 50+ year old solo racer category. The race is 860 miles long from Oceanside, Ca to Durango, Co with a time limit of 90 hours. For more information about the race, please go to www.raceacrossamerica.org. His goal is to raise $15,000 for the Trips ...for Kids Metro DC www.tfkmetrodc.org

TFK is a non-profit 501c(3) organization that helps disadvantaged youth in the Metropolitan DC area. The organization provides important life and leadership lessons through fun and educational mountain bike excursions into Virginia, Maryland, and DC parks and nature areas.

Metro DC Trips for Kids also holds an Earth Day and Health Clinics for disadvantaged youth in addition to working with schools to promote a Safe Routes to School Program.

Here is your chance to contribute to this fund raising event and possibly win a new bicycle frame, fork and Chris King Headset with a one color paint job with an MSRP of up to $3,800.

The raffle is for a custom Spectrum Cycles Super Titanium Frame (with fork, Chris King headset, and a one color paint job) designed just for you by master designer and frame builder Tom Kellogg. The winner may choose to have a lugged steel bike. For more information about Spectrum Bicycles, please go to www.spectrum-cycles.com . The winner is responsible for transportation to and from the Spectrum Workshop, also known as “The Barn” in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania.

Raffle Rules:
• A maximum of 100, $60 tickets will be sold for the made-to-measure Spectrum
If 70 raffle tickets are not sold then all proceeds from the Spectrum raffle
will be donated to Metro DC Trips for Kids
• There is no limit on the number of tickets that an individual can purchase.
• To purchase a ticket you may send a check to:

Frames for Charity
1656 Gelding Lane
Vienna, Va. 22182

Or you can use www.bikereg.com and the event name is "Frames for Charity"

Please note that raffle tickets are not tax deductible. The raffle is based in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Source: www.raceacrossamerica.org
Trips for Kids - Metro DC

Trips for Kids - Metro DC
TFK's Day of Thanks
An Awards Ceremony and Fun-raiser benefitting Trips for Kids Metro DC
This past year, Trips for Kids has been able to touch the lives of many children in the DC Metro area through our various programs and camps. With your help we hope to be able to continue this success in the upcoming year.


This a...nnual awards ceremony will recognize the efforts of the organization, as we help youth overcome obstacles on the trail and in life. There will be video presentations, awards for the youth participants of the race series (final series winners awards), recognition of our volunteers, partners, sponsors and all the riders that made this year spectacular!

Please join us for an afternoon of fun, food and thanks to all that made it possible to get more kids outdoors and active!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Suggested Donation: $20 per adults/ $5 per child

***Pre-celebration bike ride at Wakefield park at 11:30. Please join us for some outdoor fun to kick off our celebration.
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Time:2:00PM Sunday, November 22nd
Location:Kilroys Restaurant
Trips for Kids - Metro DC

Trips for Kids - Metro DC Great ride and Hike at Prince William Forest yesterday, leaves everywhere all different colors. Going back Sunday, anyone want to join us???

November 4 at 8:21am
Conny Johansen
Conny Johansen
Tell me more...
November 4 at 8:50am
Trips for Kids - Metro DC
Trips for Kids - Metro DC
walk ride, pull weds from the trail just a chance to have fun with some great kids.

PS- I like your$10.00 every paycheck idea
Fri at 11:43am
Conny Johansen
Conny Johansen
I am hoping that maybe more people will join in on the $10 per paycheck..
Fri at 11:49am
Trips for Kids - Metro DC

Trips for Kids - Metro DC VIrginia PTA wants to know your thoughts on biking and walking to school.

http://vaptasite.org/feedback-topics/346-nov2safety.html

Source: vaptasite.org
The Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers, better known as the Virginia PTA is a volunteer child advocacy association working for ALL children and youth in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Trips for Kids - Metro DC

Trips for Kids - Metro DC We reached 300 fans today yeahhhhhh now if each one of you told two more friends to join that would be peachy!!

Trips for Kids - Metro DC

Trips for Kids - Metro DC I love this picture- what a great group of folks from the youngest to the oldest

Bob Caverly
Bob Caverly
Here's a link to a photo from the TFK Take a Kid MTB'ing ride back in '02 at Seneca Creek S.P. There's a few more from that ride in this set.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/caverlyb/4048313091/in/set-72157622547480503/
October 28 at 5:25pm
Trips for Kids - Metro DC
Trips for Kids - Metro DC
that seems like just yesterday but it was 7 years, 500 rides and 4000 kids ago - some of the kids in the photo are still riding with us today
October 29 at 7:18am
Trips for Kids - Metro DC

Trips for Kids - Metro DC As the year winds down, our continued thanks to our sponsors - The Bike Lane, PVC, Honest Teas and many more have made it a great year for TFK Metro DC

Trips for Kids - Metro DC

Trips for Kids - Metro DC Working budget today, its amazing that we do so much with so little. This year we will exceed last years achievements, though we are several thousand down in donations and grants. TFK - Doing More with Less

October 18 at 9:57am
Micah Killion
Micah Killion
Shows the quality of the director, personnel and volunteers.
October 18 at 4:45pm
Robin Mooney Childers
Robin Mooney Childers
your doing a fantastic job:)
October 25 at 6:31am
Trips for Kids - Metro DC

Trips for Kids - Metro DC Federal Workers - TFK needs your support during the CFC our number is 74401. Please support us as we help local children.

Trips for Kids - Metro DC

Trips for Kids - Metro DC the reviews are in - the fesival was a success!!!! We have been to many festivals but Verizon Children's Health Festival was one of the best planned & organized festivals! It was a pleasure to be part of this community educating/ outreach event! Hopefully next year the weather won't interfere. Please keep in touch with Fairfax County WIC Program. We sincerely thank you! -Marcela from WIC

Julie Childers

Julie Childers Checked out the race course at Wakefield, trails are in great shape, please rain go away!

Chris Barnes

Chris Barnes Some pictures from the Monster Mash Race are now up over on Flickr. I still need to go through about 250 pictures from the 1130 race. They will probably be up sometime this evening. Enjoy.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/firedog62/collections/72157606245681175/

Source: www.flickr.com
Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.
Trips for Kids - Metro DC

Trips for Kids - Metro DC 13 hours of tag team grant writing today to meet a 5:00 pm deadline. Cross your fingers and wish us luck!!!!

October 12 at 1:59pm
Juan Gelabert
Juan Gelabert
Good Luck!
October 12 at 3:17pm
Chris Barnes

Chris Barnes The Lady that had a big part in making this all happen. Thank you for all you do for the Kids!!!!!!!