Growing Pains... b2p 2008
Memorial Day has, for me, been the day to kick into gear getting ready for the year's b2p. As we turned that corner this year, panic began to set in...
My highest priorities for the ride are to protect the safety of everyone involved, and the spotless reputation we have as a fundraising organization. It became clear that, in this stage of our growth, it would take a lot of work to insure both goals were met. As we headed down the stretch to July 4th, it became clear that I couldn't devote the time I needed to meet this challenge, and reluctantly stepped down hoping we could move on to a new level, with new leadership. Unfortunately it seems that was a little optimistic.
The decision I've come to is to close the ride for this year, rather than risk not doing it responsibly.
Naturally this was a tough call. Beyond just my interests, we have a whole lot of people who have a lot of time and effort invested in this. Notably, we have Edna Woods, who, as far as I can tell, almost singlehandedly pulled together all the volunteer help the riders enjoyed at the rest stops. We have all those volunteers who stood out in the rain, marked the routes, gathered the donations, many of whom I never got the chance to meet in person. We have Dr. Matt Lavoie and his team at the CND who enthusiastically supported our ride in many, many ways... and Wendy Thaxter, past director of the FND, who held our hand through our first years. Of course there are the riders and their sponsors.
My hope is this will simply be a "year off". Whether we just gear up next year, (even next Spring maybe?) with a fully established organization, or we're reborn in another form, I just don't know... but I'm not shutting the door on any possibility.
Riders: I will be returning any registration fees I have received, and will contact your sponsors to see if they would like their donations returned, or forwarded to the FND.
If you do not wish to receive more emails of this sort from b2p please take a minute and hit the "unsubscribe" button. Your name will be removed from the list automatically. If, however, you'd like to learn of any developments and keep up with our plans, just do nothing. Your name will remain on our list.
Thanks once again to the hundreds of people who have made this ride possible. You have raised over $120,000 to find a cure for Parkinson's, and hopefully, this is only the start!
...oh yeah. And, KEEP PEDALIN'!
-Ted
My highest priorities for the ride are to protect the safety of everyone involved, and the spotless reputation we have as a fundraising organization. It became clear that, in this stage of our growth, it would take a lot of work to insure both goals were met. As we headed down the stretch to July 4th, it became clear that I couldn't devote the time I needed to meet this challenge, and reluctantly stepped down hoping we could move on to a new level, with new leadership. Unfortunately it seems that was a little optimistic.
The decision I've come to is to close the ride for this year, rather than risk not doing it responsibly.
Naturally this was a tough call. Beyond just my interests, we have a whole lot of people who have a lot of time and effort invested in this. Notably, we have Edna Woods, who, as far as I can tell, almost singlehandedly pulled together all the volunteer help the riders enjoyed at the rest stops. We have all those volunteers who stood out in the rain, marked the routes, gathered the donations, many of whom I never got the chance to meet in person. We have Dr. Matt Lavoie and his team at the CND who enthusiastically supported our ride in many, many ways... and Wendy Thaxter, past director of the FND, who held our hand through our first years. Of course there are the riders and their sponsors.
My hope is this will simply be a "year off". Whether we just gear up next year, (even next Spring maybe?) with a fully established organization, or we're reborn in another form, I just don't know... but I'm not shutting the door on any possibility.
Riders: I will be returning any registration fees I have received, and will contact your sponsors to see if they would like their donations returned, or forwarded to the FND.
If you do not wish to receive more emails of this sort from b2p please take a minute and hit the "unsubscribe" button. Your name will be removed from the list automatically. If, however, you'd like to learn of any developments and keep up with our plans, just do nothing. Your name will remain on our list.
Thanks once again to the hundreds of people who have made this ride possible. You have raised over $120,000 to find a cure for Parkinson's, and hopefully, this is only the start!
...oh yeah. And, KEEP PEDALIN'!
-Ted
posted by boston2portland at
8:27 AM
1 Comments:
Very sad. This is too good of a thing to just let it die. I look forward to it's coming re-birth.
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