{"id":50578,"date":"2017-02-14T14:07:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T20:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=50578"},"modified":"2017-02-14T14:07:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T20:07:49","slug":"nonprofit-bike-shop-thrives-thanks-to-boost-from-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/nonprofit-bike-shop-thrives-thanks-to-boost-from-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit bike shop thrives thanks to boost from the city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0Haley Velasco<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Fixing and bikes and doing good\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/204064257?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Feb. 14 Update: We have added a documentary to this story which features student Freddy Mercado and David Pohlad in the bike shop.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">If you walk down Sawyer Avenue in Albany Park, you\u2019ll pass a shop with a glass storefront displaying multi-colored bikes hanging from the walls and the ceiling. Inside that shop, young people work and volunteer in the non-profit shop, fixing and building bikes for community members.<\/p>\n<p>But it hasn\u2019t always been easy to keep two Bikes N\u2019 Roses locations in Albany Park and Belmont Cragin open, and to employ the students, according to David Pohlad, the program director.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In February 2015, Governor Bruce Rauner froze millions in social service grant dollars disbursed by outgoing Governor Pat Quinn on Jan. 1. In that decision, Bikes &#8216;n&#8217; Roses lost $276,000 of funding that the program was relying on to pay 30 students, as well as rent and utilities to keep the program running after having to move its Belmont Cragin location to a different rented space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe weren\u2019t paying any youth and it was like that for about a year,\u201d Pohlad said. \u201cA lot of things were going unfunded in the program and we managed to stay alive. We held on to our two locations the whole time and had just as many youth as we did when they were getting paid. They still came.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following over a year without state funding, Mayor Rahm Emanuel stepped in to help Bikes N\u2019 Roses get local funding in April 2016. Thanks to a $60,000 investment to restore 20 yearlong youth employment opportunities and an additional $94,000 through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onesummerchicago.org\/\">One Summer Chicago program<\/a>, the program was able to reopen its Belmont Cragin location in 2016 and employ 50 young people through the summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe summer months are when our children need us the most, which is why we must step in when the state will not,\u201d said Emanuel in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofchicago.org\/city\/en\/depts\/mayor\/press_room\/press_releases\/2016\/april\/Mayor-Announces-Funding-Youth-Employment.html\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Mayor\u2019s One Summer Chicago program works to provide more than 25,000 employment opportunities for young people, ages 14-24, across the city during the summer months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProviding our young people with opportunities that will allow them to learn professional and life skills will benefit them throughout their lives,\u201d said Lisa Morrison Butler, Department of Family Supports and Services Commissioner, in a statement. \u201cThis is especially true for our youth employed by Bikes N\u2019 Roses, an established program that has provided hundreds of Chicago\u2019s youth not only a job and a paycheck, but the chance to hone new skills and a unique experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Albany Park students learn from Pohlad and his bike mechanic knowledge, while teaching and working together.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50595\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50595\" style=\"width: 1100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50595 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Bike.jpg\" alt=\"Bikes in local bike shop\" width=\"1100\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Bike.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Bike-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Bike-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Bike-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dozens of bikes are displayed in the Albany Park Bikes N\u2019 Roses location as youth employees and volunteers deconstruct and reconstruct different models. (Haley Velasco\/MEDILL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re big on having other youth take the initiative. It\u2019s a great opportunity for them to show off what they learned and practice their communication,\u201d Pohlad said.<\/p>\n<p>The coolest part of being at Bikes N\u2019 Roses, according to Andrew, 12 years old, is that, \u201cThey teach us to change things and we can learn new things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, 130-150 students worked through Bikes N\u2019 Roses during the year and even more volunteered during the year, according to Pohlad.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the program pays 20 students\u00a0at the Belmont Cragin location and 10 at the Albany Park location.<\/p>\n<p>Freddy, 16 years old, said that his dad taught him how to ride a two-wheeler when he was five years old. He got back into biking as he started high school and came to Bikes N\u2019 Roses a little over a year ago with a friend and thanks to \u201chands on\u201d learning, he now has become an expert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t feel like a lot of bike shops tends to feel. It just feels very homey,\u201d Mercado said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Bikes N\u2019 Roses, 4747 N. Sawyer, operates as a fully functioning bike shop with youth as its employees. (Haley Velasco\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Haley Velasco Feb. 14 Update: We have added a documentary to this story which features student Freddy Mercado and David Pohlad in the bike shop. If you walk down Sawyer Avenue in Albany Park, you\u2019ll pass a shop with a glass storefront displaying multi-colored bikes hanging from the walls and the ceiling. 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