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Best Local Cause

Bikes Not Bombs

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BIKES NOT BOMBS is the Superman of local causes. There’s pretty much nothing the Jamaica Plain nonprofit can’t do. Save the environment? Empower the world? Leap buildings in a single bound? Well, that last one might be a stretch. Bikes Not Bombs recycles roughly 6000 bikes a year, which are then repaired and redistributed in lower-income neighborhoods around Boston and throughout the Third World. Other cape-worthy ventures include a top-notch bike shop, youth-training and -education opportunities, and a program that sends technicians and tools abroad to help like-minded start-ups get on their feet. Quite deserving of superhero status, indeed.

BIKES NOT BOMBS | 284 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain | 617.522.0222 | bikesnotbombs.org
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