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Ride 4A Reason 2025

Sat April 26, 2025 Oakland, CA 94611 US
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Mike Napolitano

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Dear People That I Love,

There’s this poem that I keep seeing on the internet:

Everything is on fire, but everyone I love is doing beautiful things, and trying to make life worth living, and I know I don’t have to believe in everything, but I believe in that.

- Nikita Gill

I hope that the world doesn’t quite feel on fire for you. From the perspective of public education, however, it often feels like fire, after fire, after fire.  And yet teachers and students persist in doing beautiful things every day.

I’m writing to you because I count you among the people I love who are also doing beautiful things and I hope you’ll join me in this endeavor to support the teachers and students of Oakland and Alameda.  I’m hopping on my bike in April to join Ride 4A Reason- an annual fundraiser and bike ride to Sacramento and I am asking you to join my fundraising efforts.

Last year, thanks to the riders and supporters of Ride 4A Reason, more than 6,000 kids in eleven public schools in Oakland and Alameda had field trips, got to visit their school libraries, experienced the awe of river rafting, and wore official team uniforms for their sports teams -- for many, these were firsts.  

This is the 17th year that R4R will be making the trek to Sacramento and I’m proud to be part of it. Over this time we have raised close to $1.8 million for public schools in Oakland and Alameda. 

COVID-19 highlighted the glaring inequities in our education system, and, especially now that the short-term funding from the pandemic years has expired, the challenges facing our school children are as great as ever. I’m even more committed to ride and raise awareness for our dismally underfunded school system that affects us all as students, parents, teachers, and neighbors.

My goal is to raise $5000 by the time I hop on my bike on April 26th - can you donate today to help me get there?  100% of the funds I raise will go directly to these public schools in Oakland and Alameda. Please consider donating $10, $50, $100 or more to help me get there!

Thank you so much!

PS. If you want to send in a check, you can make it payable to "Social Good Fund" and put "R4R 2024" in the memo line.  You can mail it to:

Ride 4 a Reason, C/O Mike Napolitano, 3239 Kempton Avenue, Apartment 13, Oakland, CA, 94611

Tax ID: 46-1323531

 

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$5,317 Raised By 43 Donors

$500 on behalf of Dorothy Lurie
$500 on behalf of Kara Holzwarth
$500 on behalf of Mary Lou Solecki and Tim Wendt
$310 on behalf of Diane Heinze
$300 on behalf of Judy Weiss
$250 on behalf of Kristi McKenney
$150 on behalf of Bruce Abelli-Amen
$150 on behalf of James Ponton
$150 on behalf of Linda Spencer
$150 on behalf of Mike Napolitano
$150 on behalf of Mike Napolitano
$150 on behalf of Steve Napolitano
$150 on behalf of Zac Unger
$112 on behalf of Dave Boicourt
$110 on behalf of Carrie Austin
$100 on behalf of Adrian Napolitano
$100 on behalf of Andrew Stern
$100 on behalf of Ann L Riley Riley
$100 on behalf of Deborah Hamilton
$100 on behalf of Graham Brown
$100 on behalf of irene yen
$100 on behalf of Jennie Flanigan
$100 on behalf of john hetzel
$100 on behalf of Ken Alex
$100 on behalf of Maggie Geddes
$50 on behalf of Dyan Whyte
$50 on behalf of Kristina Yoshida
$50 on behalf of Laurie Moran
$50 from Anonymous
$50 on behalf of Lucas Goldstein
$50 on behalf of Lyn Hikida & Morris Dye
$50 on behalf of Nina Portugal
$50 on behalf of Renae Griffin
$50 on behalf of Richard Hart
$50 on behalf of Xavier Melanson-Fernandez
$35 on behalf of Lael Humphries
$30 on behalf of Thompson Lane Address
$25 from Anonymous
$25 on behalf of Richard Unger
$20 on behalf of Bronwyn Turney
$20 on behalf of Caroline Bernardi
$20 on behalf of Ron Goloubow
$10 from Anonymous

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