Team Up with Climate Ride!

1. Is your company or organization a sustainability leader?  Showcase your sustainability/Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives. 
Your company can share its CSR/sustainability leadership by joining the growing Climate Ride community. This grass-roots network includes event participants (approx 200), their supporters at home (more than 5,000 in 2009), and beyond the actual event (18 million media hits in 2008, 20 million media hits in 2009 and 300,000 aggregated mailing list).

2. Increase team building among employees. Shared experiences work to the benefit of companies by increasing performance, wellness, and productivity among your team members, their co-workers, and supporters.

 

3. Build your fanbase through extraordinary experiences. Climate Ride is an intimate adventure. Teams associated with Climate Ride have a chance to build lasting relationships during the intense experience of riding 300 miles in 5 days. The Climate Ride community and the Climate Ride organization choose to include and promote organizations that are environmentally-conscious, focused on sustainability, or making an honest effort to improve their corporate social responsibility. Additionally, your team can enroll other Climate Riders in meaningful and personal ways during the ride.

 

4. Make a measurable difference in your CSR efforts. By partnering with Climate Ride, your company can not only measure the audiences reached (riders, donors, supporters), but can directly point to the impact made by the funds raised, and how Climate Ride's nonprofit beneficiaries utilized the money to make a lasting difference.

 

5. Keep content fresh and enjoy positive public relations. Keeping content current for the media and internal communications can be challenging. Climate Ride provides a way to follow your team on their journey of fundraising (on the team fundraising page), as well as on the ride (on the Climate Ride Live! website). Team members could also utilize your corporate blog, internal communications, Facebook and Twitter to raise awareness of the Team and share your dedication to CSR/sustainability.

 

6. Give employees another option to make a positive change toward a healthy lifestyle through cycling. Climate Ride is an exciting addition to employee wellness initiatives and programs. Cycling is not only a heathy and viable form of transportation, but it's also carbon-free!

 

7. Achieve increased visibility in Northern California. Climate Ride California travels 300 miles from Fortuna, CA along Highway 101, and then south along Highway 1 through many cities and communities where your team can make an impact. Climate Ride California rides through Fortuna, Ft Bragg, Guerneville, Sebastopol, San Anselmo, Corte Madera, Mill Valley, and San Francisco. A strong team with highly visible jerseys would not fail to make an impact among local residents. Your employees and customers could also be recruited to cheer the team on along the route.

 

10. Partner with an organization that understands and matches your organization's vision to accelerate the shift toward a low-carbon economy. Climate Ride adheres to many of the same principles as your company, such as growth through leadership in environmental, socially responsible, and ethical business practices.