Cancer Journeys Foundation, the City of Harrisonburg, Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance, Northend Greenway, Build Our Park, Prostate Cancer Awareness Project, Rockingham Memorial Hospital, Shen-Rock Mountain Bike Team and Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition are some of the many non-profits and organizations that the Alpine Loop Gran Fondo closely works with to carry out the charitable mission of the Alpine Loop Gran Fondo. In addition to these beneficiaries, the event also provides financial and other tangible support to its many non-profit and community-based partners including: Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition Mountain Bike Festival, Rocktown Cyclocross Festival, Our Community Place Kitchen, Clover Hill Volunteer Rescue Squad, Brandywine Volunteer Fire Department, North Fork Volunteer Rescue Squad, Harrisonburg High School Varsity Cheer, Rocktown Racing, Briery Branch Community Center, Bridgewater Cheer Team, and Harrisonburg High School Key Club.
2024 fundraising will support initiatives of the following, in alphabetical order:
Build Our Park and Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance
Downtown revitalization, a gathering place for community
There is considerable momentum building in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The community boasts a thriving downtown. What could be better than a centralized park and gathering place where families can picnic, individuals can relax, children can play and groups can come together for special events?
Cancer Journeys Foundation – Prostate Cancer Awareness Project
Prostate cancer awareness and early detection
The mission of Cancer Journeys Foundation – The Prostate Cancer Awareness Project is to significantly increase the prostate cancer survivor rate by dramatically increasing the rate of early detection, with the objective that that no man experiences a surprise, post-metastasis prostate cancer diagnosis. We do this through awareness events around the country.
Our Community Place
Our Community Place is located in Harrisonburg’s Northeast Neighborhood, and has been building community and serving those in need for 10 years. OCP serves over 17,000 hot meals a year to homeless and marginalized persons, and provides laundry and shower services, storage lockers, case management services, volunteer and job training opportunities, empowerment and learning opportunities, helps finding employment and housing, referrals for dental and health services, transportation, assistance completing Medicaid applications and renewals, and much more. OCP hosts the mobile Suitcase Clinic for medical appointments and access to medications, partners with Strength in Peers to provide mental health and substance use services, places people into housing with Mercy House, and provides a listening ear through volunteer counselors.
OCP is about loving people, welcoming anyone who walks through the doors, and providing a sense of belonging and hope to people struggling with life’s daily challenges. To that end, OCP is always learning how to be a trauma informed care organization in order to provide a safe and supportive community where people can find healing, build resilience, and be successful at working towards their life goals. Come hang with us and see what OCP is all about!
Richmond Cycling Corps
Our purpose is to change the lives of youth who live in Richmond’s public housing projects.
“We use cycling as our platform for change. We infuse ourselves; our passion, our values, our creativity, our drive, and our dedication into the lives of our youth. We have fun. We laugh. We teach. We learn. We promise our youth, that if they stay with Richmond Cycling Corps, they will get out of public housing. We will never break our promise. We will never become set in our ways; we will always be dynamic in our approach to changing youth lives. We are fearless in our approach to our purpose. We will not become tangled in red-tape, policy, politics, and talking heads. We will always deliver action, not messaging. Life is too short, and we, including our youth, have a lot to accomplish. We will always be passionate towards our purpose.”
Richmond Cycling Corps: Can’t Stop. Won’t Stop.
Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition and Shen-Rock Youth Team
Cycling opportunities and advocacy
The Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition (SVBC) envisions an active and organized cycling community in the central Shenandoah Valley that represents all types and levels of cycling and cyclists. The SVBC will further the interests of its diverse membership by advocating for, and providing resources to the cycling community so Harrisonburg and the Central Shenandoah Valley will become known as a center of safe, sustainable and enjoyable cycling on roads, trails, and streets.
