[KARE 11, October 03, 2019]
The first Saturday is always the day to donate your unused bikes to Free Bikes 4 Kidz at most Allina Health Clinics and Hospitals . Allina Health's Ellie Zuehlke and Free Bikes 4 Kidz' Tia Martinson talked with KARE 11 about big collection day.
October 03, 2019
[Fridley Public Schools, April 24, 2019]
A record-breaking 450 bicycles were given to Fridley Public Schools families at the third annual Free Bikes for Kids event with Allina Health , hosted at R.L. Stevenson Elementary on April 13, 2019. Each participating child and adult was fitted for a helmet and matched with a bike in the gymnasium, then headed to the cafeteria which served as a bike mechanic shop for the day.
April 24, 2019
[Fox 9, April 13, 2019]
Thousands of kids who otherwise might not be able to afford it, now have a freshly cleaned and refurbished bike. Hundreds of Allina Health volunteers fitted donated bikes and new helmets to the kids just in time for spring through the Free Bikes 4 Kidz program.
April 13, 2019
[Owatonna People's Press, October 08, 2018]
With about a half hour still on the clock on Saturday, volunteers at the Free Bikes 4 Kidz event at the Owatonna Hospital had already loaded about 150 bikes — an average of about 40 bikes an hour and enough to fill three trucks full — and still had some left to load up. “I assume we’ll get some more,” said Natalie Ginter, the Allina Health director of community engagement for the Owatonna Hospital and the one coordinating Saturday’s bicycle collection at the hospital.
October 08, 2018
[KARE 11, October 01, 2018]
On Saturday, Oct. 6, Free Bikes 4 Kidz and Allina Health will be collecting donations of new and gently used bikes at 50 Allina Health locations across the Twin Cities from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Over the last 10 years, FB4K has given away 50,000 bikes to kids from underserved families in our area.
October 01, 2018
[WCCO-TV, September 29, 2018]
Allina Health teamed up with Free Bikes 4 Kidz to collect donated used bikes to refurbish and give to kids of families that can't afford a bike. Learn more.
September 29, 2018
[KARE 11, January 01, 0001]
Grey skies and a little rain didn't keep people from coming to more than 50 Allina Health sites to donate used bikes for Free Bikes 4 Kidz. It was the seventh year that Allina has teamed up with Free Bikes 4 Kidz to collect donated bikes.
October 07, 2017
[KSTP TV, October 07, 2017]
For the seventh year in a row, Allina Health is teaming up with the nonprofit Free Bikes 4 Kidz to collected used bikes from the public that will be cleaned up and repaired, then given to kids of families in need. Allina and FB4K spokespeople talked with KSTP-TV News about the event.
October 07, 2017
[Star Tribune, July 15, 2017]
On a steamy summer day perfect for wheeling around the neighborhood, excited kids snapped up bicycles donated by Allina Health on Saturday in Minneapolis’ Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. Allina and its community partners dispersed 108 bikes at the Brian Coyle Community Center in response to a frustrated social media post by activist Abdirizak Bihi about the lack of bikes for children in his community.
July 15, 2017
[WCCO-TV, October 08, 2016]
Allina Health and Free Bikes 4 Kidz are working together for the sixth year to collect used bikes from the public to clean and repair and then give them to kids of families in need. Free Bikes 4 Kidz founder Terry Esau and Allina Health's Minneapolis Heart Institute cardiologist Dr. Nick Burke talked to WCCO-TV about the collection day.
October 08, 2016