The Bisbee Bikeways board and staff are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Our human capital is the most valuable asset we have. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities, and talent that our board and staff members invest in their work represents a significant part of not only our culture but our reputation and organization's achievement as well.
We embrace and encourage our board and staff members differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make people unique.
Bisbee Bikeways diversity initiatives are applicable—but not limited—to our practices and policies on board and staff recruitment and selection; compensation and benefits for staff; professional development and training for board and staff; promotions for staff; and the ongoing development of an environment built on the premise of gender and diversity equity that encourages and enforces:
This project is a grassroots community development effort where a small non profit is trying to make infrastructure changes in rural Arizona. This requires stamina and fortitude to disassemble entrenched power structures in government, and transportation. We continue to persist in creating an alternative transportation system amidst a car-centered world.
Project Update, June 2024: We have raised $8.5 million for the final design and construction of the Lavender Pit shared use path. We need to raise $34,599 by August 31st to begin the final design of the west segment of the path. This is less than 1% of the project cost. Let's make this happen! Make a donation now to ensure this project gets completed: click on the image to the right to be directed to our fundraising campaign. It is crucial that we raise this money in this short amount of time in order to satisfy our match requirements for this project. It's up to us to raise this money! If you want this project to succeed, the time is NOW to donate, click on the image to the right..