The Bike Hut has worked with a variety of outside agencies, including apprentice placements from Compass Community Services, The Delancey Street Foundation's Safehaven Juvenile Justice Program, and Schools to Careers, which was funded by the Private Industry Council. We have also participated in events such as San Mateo County's Recycleworks bicycle program and San Francisco's Bicycle Safety Fairs, providing mechanics and materials. Every year we celebrate Bike to Work Day by being and energizer station and providing free mechanical work for that day.

Our emphasis is on mechanical and customer service training, as well as long-term mentoring. Most of our program participants come by referral of other participants, and we are part of a community that extends throughout the Bay Area. Most program participants are at-risk African-American males, although we have hosted a great variety of participants over our seven years of operation. Much of the magic of our training site comes through this diversity. We have worked with hundreds of at-risk youth and created dozens of jobs, including valet bike parking at the neighboring local baseball park.

We also care for the community, providing information about safety, maintenance,and general appreciation of the history and power of bicycles as an instrument of social change. We work with the homeless and are a fixture within the messenger community. As a crossroads of community, we are a place where people from a diverse set of backgrounds meet.

Currently we have no grant funding and have stopped creating payroll position for our apprentices. Our volunteers and apprentices are rewarded with used bicycle parts, food, and respect. We would love to work with any parties interested in creating paid positions for our youth workers, and are looking forward to working with grant writers to create such positions during the next six months.