How You Can Support
Your donation fuels our journey from Wisconsin to Alabama, raising awareness about barriers that hinder racial unity and fostering crucial conversations in a non-judgmental safe space. Every contribution helps us provide resources, support our riders, and expand our impact.
Ways You Can Give
Your support helps make this journey possible—covering essential costs, sustaining our riders, and amplifying our message. Every contribution, big or small, fuels this mission.
Riders for Race Amity Wish List
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24 hardcover journals with bookmark + participant names​​
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300 branded pens (for Race Amity Roundtables)
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75 branded clipboards (for Roundtables)
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Participant apparel (sweatshirts or t-shirts with logo)
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Printed backdrop with frame (for events & media)
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Ball bag with balls (team-building / recreation)
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Small rectangular folding table​​​
Your donated gear helps keep this 1,000 mile journey moving forward.​
Travel, Safety & Logistics
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4 strobe warning safety lights (for SAG wagons)
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7 × $570 gas cards
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Suggested: Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores, BP, Shell
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10 × 100L duffel bags
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10 rollable sleeping mats
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Covered trailer (borrow or donate)
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3 six-bike hitch racks (borrow or donate)
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7 first aid kits (borrow or donate)
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4 ice water jugs (for bottle refills)​​​​
Bike Maintenance
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4 bike repair toolkits
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4 bike repair parts kits
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In-kind support from local bike repair shops along route
A/V & Engagement
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High-quality speaker + Bluetooth microphone (borrow or donate)
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Videographer (Week 1 and/or Week 2)
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Photographer (Week 1 and/or Week 2)
With your support, we amplify the message.
With your support, we amplify the message.
Food & Project Gift Cards
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$450 in food gift cards (for 24 participants)
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Suggested: Panera Bread, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Einstein Bros. Bagels, Noodles & Company, Sweetgreen
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Gift cards to Costco (bulk food & supplies)
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$300 gift card to Michaels (art supplies)
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$300 gift card to The Home Depot (service project materials)
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$150 gift card to Barnes & Noble
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Diversity books for children (K–6)
Every shared meal fuels the riders and the mission. Your generosity sustains both.
Enrichment & Learning Justice Initiative Sites
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24 tickets to Equal Justice Initiative sites
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$1,000 lodging at a Selma HBCU
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$120 Walking Tour – Jackson Ward (Richmond, VA)
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$600 honorarium – Survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
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$600 honorarium – Last surviving Freedom Rider
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$600 honorarium – Child foot soldier (Children’s Crusade)
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$600 honorarium – Selma to Montgomery March foot soldier
Volunteer & In-Kind Opportunities
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Provide group bicycle safety training day- Madison Area
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Route-based bike shop support partners
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Soap-making or craft workshop (for fundraising products)
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Recruitment support
