Mission: The mission of Pedals for Progress is to: 1.enhance the productivity of low-income workers overseas where reliable, environmentally sound transportation is scarce, by supplying reconditioned bicycles; 2.promote self-sustaining bicycle repair facilities [overseas], employing local people; 3.provide leadership. . . throughout North America for the recycling of bicycles, parts, and accessories; 4.reduce the volume of bicycles, parts, and accessories flowing to U. S. landfills; 5.foster environmentally sound transportation policies that encourage widespread use of bicycles worldwide; and 6.foster in the North American public an understanding of, and a channel for, responding to the transportation needs of the poor in developing countries.
Geographic areas served: world wide
Programs: Pedals for progress's primary exempt purpose is to supply, via charity partners overseas, reconditioned and used bicycles to low-income families in need of affordable transport for productive purposes.