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Check out our article in Red Bulletin
BRETT AND TAM DONELSON: A couple closes the diversity gap by getting Hispanic girls on bikes.
Brett and Tam Donelson both believe that the best way to empower the large population of Hispanic girls living in Colorado’s Summit and Eagle counties is to give them bikes ... that they can keep ... if they commit to riding and racing them from the time they join The Cycle Effect until they graduate high school. That’s why the husband-and-wife team — he’s from Upstate New York; she’s Australian — started their pilot program in 2011. She was racing — and winning — Xterra triathlons; he’d coached world-class skiers. But at a certain point, he got “sick of being in snow,” and his hopes turned into fate after he met a philanthropist at a ritzy Westin Hotel gym — who started talking to him about the beauty of charitable giving in an area with hundreds of miles of singletrack and an “adventure gap” between the white and Hispanic populations.
