First-year students from Erin Hurley’s FYS, Cycling and Social Change, wrote and and submitted a proposal to Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s Community Kickstarter Grant Program to make the Drake campus and the surrounding neighborhood more bike friendly. If selected, the project will receive up to $10,000 to launch a bike rental program and add more bike storage options on campus.

In order to show Wellmark this project is worth investing in, please visit the Community Kickstarter page and vote for the “Make Drake a more Bike-Friendly Community”. You can vote once a day until Oct. 7. The more votes we get the better our chances of winning!

—Submitted by Renee Sedlacek, Interim Director of Community Engagement and Service-Learning