About Donations
To donate by debit or credit card
Click on the “Donate” button in right-hand panel of this site and make a donation via PayPal.
To donate by check
Make payable to “Mari Lynch” and note “Bicycling Monterey” on the memo line. Mail to Mari Lynch, Bicycling Monterey, PO Box 3041, Monterey, CA 93942.
For other ways to make a donation, please contact Mari (831.375.6278).
Why donate
The Transportation Agency for Monterey County honored the value of these bike resources and projects by presenting Mari with a Transportation Excellence Award (a non-monetary award) for bike advocacy on January 25, 2012.
The Bicycling Monterey website and projects are a community service of Mari Lynch, recognized by the City of Monterey, City of Seaside, Monterey County Health Department, National Steinbeck Center, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Naval Postgraduate School, California State University Monterey Bay, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey County Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Sea Otter Classic, Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Transportation Agency for Monterey County, Monterey-Salinas Transit, California Bicycle Coalition, and many others, and are recommended and featured by media including KUSP Central Coast Public Radio, KSBW, the Monterey County Weekly, the Salinas Californian, and the Monterey County Herald.
This work is in its third year. As of the end of January 2012, it continues to be done without financial compensation for Mari’s time.
If you found information on this site valuable, please consider making a donation to help maintain and expand these resources. Even the smallest donation is meaningful and appreciated.
Donor acknowledgements
The privacy of everyone who makes a donation will be honored. For those who allow public acknowledgment, it will be a pleasure to include their name on the Donors page. If you are making a donation and your name can be acknowledged, please let Mari know.
Of course, if you have a specific preference about how you would like your donation used, please indicate that preference. Your questions are welcome and appreciated. Please contact Mari.
Transparent and honest work
As the Monterey County Weekly noted in “Moving Motivation: The Change Agent,” Mari learned from her father: “If there’s something in your community that needs doing, you don’t wait until all the pieces are in place, you just jump in and do it.” That’s how Bicycling Monterey began, in Spring 2009.
Del Rey Oaks resident Susan Ragsdale-Cronin wrote a letter to the Monterey County Herald, “Sincere thanks for practicing the golden rule,” published March 28, 2011:
“…the basis of ethics is the Golden Rule. When we practice this rule (and not the variation ‘those with the gold make the rules’), the expectation is that others do, too. I have recently seen and felt the denial and then the heartbreak of the disregard of this most simple tenet of daily living. From the colossal chain of events that Wall Street can trigger to the unraveling of local nonprofits, untangling the web of deceit is no fun.
“But it is exactly this contrast that makes me appreciate the toil of people committed to transparent and honest work. For this, all of our community should look with admiration and gratitude to people such as…Mari Lynch (Bicycling Monterey).”
Thank you, Susan.
History
Mari has been a resident of Monterey County and a local business owner since 1981. Mari started the Bicycling Monterey site and projects in 2009; see About Bicycling Monterey for more info.
Fourteen months after Tips for Bicycling Monterey County was first published as a free online guide, a “Donate” button was added to this site, administered through the secure PayPal service. This was suggested by someone who had just read the camping post and said, “You really put a lot of time and energy into this. Put up a donate button so that others can help keep it going!”
The donate button was added July 28, 2010. For a list of total donations received, see Donors.
If many people were to make a $5 donation–the average newsstand price of a single issue of a magazine–together their contributions could accomplish a lot.
Does running this website take much time?
Our neighbors across the Monterey Bay recognized that indeed it does! Here are some excerpts from their November 2010 online conversation:
“Have you seen the Bicycling Monterey site? This is a one-woman production and volunteer effort. It’s full of bike-related resources, events, news, programs, etc….Does anyone have an interest in working to pull something like this together for our area?” — Cory Caletti, Senior Transportation Planner/Bicycle Coordinator, Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission
“This is a really great web site. I really like the headings, stories and links.”– William Menchine, Mechanic and Co-Owner of the Bicycle Trip, Santa Cruz
“Mari, your website has started a revolution in Santa Cruz. We want to launch a site like yours – but we imagine we need 10 people at least to launch what you have done.” — Karen Kefauver, “Spin City” columnist, Santa Cruz Sentinel
CSUMB Transportation Planner Megan Tolbert states: “Mari is a genuine community steward. Her work with Bicycling Monterey has been a huge public service to the region. She performs her work with passion and compassion, and she’s skilled at detail-oriented quality control.”
Please join Bicycling Monterey in expressing appreciation
to those listed on the Donors page.
