Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Increase proceeds and reduce expenses for the organization's primary annual fundraising event in 2021. The Prickly Pedal Mountain Bike Race experienced 20% growth in the number of participants and spectators from year one to year five. Due to the COVID-19 guidelines, our Foundation was unable to conduct its premier annual fundraising event. The Foundation's other program is seeking $300,000 in federal grant Economic Development Administration funding to establish a 5-year effort to increase economic development in 27 partnership communities' tourism revenues, promote growth in existing and new businesses and job growth to help overcome the pandemic losses of our partnership communities by marketing the recreational benefits of the Maricopa Trail systems for their community residents' physical and mental health.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
DIY Prickly Pedal Challenge on the Maricopa Trail
This is a competitive mountain bike virtual challenge race on a 40-mile segment of the 315-mile Maricopa Trail, which circles Maricopa County in Arizona and connects 10 Maricopa County Regional Parks. January 23, 2016 is the date of the first inaugural Prickly Pedal 40-mile mountain bike race, which is being held in Maricopa County, Arizona. The event is anticipated to attract mountain bike, hiking, trail running, and equestrian enthusiasts from around the nation. A Prickly Pedal Fun Run 7-mile mountain bike event is also offered for families and youth in conjunction with this event.
Pricky Pedal Mountain Bike Race on the Maricopa Trail
Annual fundraising event that attracts 300-500 mountain bike racers from across the nation. This is a USA Cycling sponsored race that requires skilled mountain bikers and is 40-50 miles in length.
Maricopa Trail Communities Program
A County-wide program to connect the Maricopa Trail to 24 communities in Maricopa County that provides access to the ten Maricopa County Regional Parks comprised of 160,000 acres of open space and more than 500 miles of recreational trails.
Maricopa Trail Stewardship Program
The Stewardship Program involves 30-40 volunteer Segment Stewards who maintain 5-15 mile segments of the 315-mle Maricopa Trail that forms a continuous loop that connects the 10 Maricopa County Regional Parks that total 120,000 acres of open space lands, mountain ranges, national forest lands, canal systems, mountain preserves, and more than 500 miles of recreational trails for all non-motorized trail users.
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Greater growth in individual and corporate event sponsor donations and grants to support the increased marketing expenses of the organization's annual fundraising event and programs to help bring increased business, tourism and jobs back from the pandemic-created losses to the 27 community partners along the route of the Maricopa Trail.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Work toward attraction of local, state, regional, national and international event registrations that will bring more national event sponsors and expand awareness for the primary annual fundraising event.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Very strong support and the success realized in the development of new government grants, sponsorships and memorandums of agreements that were signed during the previous calendar year
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Developed more than 80 partnerships with other organizations, government agencies, and user groups in the past two years, and the next steps will involve the expansion of the number of corporate and organizational sponsors for the annual fundraising event and the potential for increasing the primary annual fundraising event to multi-day events.
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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MARICOPA TRAIL AND PARK FOUNDATION
Board of directorsas of 12/03/2020
Mr, Joe Marvin
Maricopa Trail and Park Foundation
Term: 2010 -
Mr. Mitchell Klein
Maricopa Trail and Park Foundation
Term: 2010 -
Joe Marvin
Maricopa Trail and Park Foundation
Mitchell Klein
Maricopa Trail and Park Foundation
Jan Hancock
Maricopa Trail and Park Foundation
Stacy Schneider, CPA
Maricopa Trail and Park Foundation
Jeffrey Allmon
Maricopa Trail and Park Foundation
Brian Derrick
Maricopa Trail and Park Foundation
Andy Kunasek
Maricopa Trail and Park Foundation
Board leadership practices
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Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
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