Dec 2, 2025 is Giving Tuesday – Please consider a donation to Active Arizona
Since 2002, CAZBIKE has been the statewide bicycling advocacy organization for Arizona. After a strategic planning process, facilitated by Pinnacle Prevention, CAZBIKE is being rebranded as Active Arizona (ActiveAZ). Active Arizona represents everyone who chooses active travel and recreation in their daily lives. Please follow this transformation as we champion active travel for all Arizonans.
Active Arizona is asking for financial support to propel a reinvigorated statewide organization that will advocate, educate, and supply and promote active events throughout Arizona.
Why does this matter?
- Much more progress is needed to improve the safety and comfort of Arizona for all who want to travel by foot, bike, or on any type of wheeled device. Through the assistance of members and supporters, ActiveAZ can help make this happen.
- Arizona needs a stronger and sustained effort to improve the infrastructure for Arizonans (and visitors too) who want connected convenience.
- Not everyone can drive a car or wants to drive everywhere. People want choices that allow them to walk, run, bike, or roll, in safety and comfort, regardless of age, as they make their way to work, to school, to church, the neighborhood restaurant or store, bus stop, coffee shop or trail.
- Convenient and comfortable travel is really about maximizing the public spaces and corridors that make up Arizona’s recreation and transportation network.
Why Giving Tuesday?
- CAZBIKE has never done any fundraising and has relied on membership dues, a few donations and volunteers to advocate for cyclists and cycling infrastructure. This approach has not been enough to make meaningful change and progress for cycling in Arizona.
- ActiveAZ must build on the organizational transformation that started at the 2024 Arizona Bicycling Summit and continued at the 2025 Summit through a strategic planning process. Meaningful change will happen when all of us step up and commit to an organization that is now poised to improve active travel and recreation for all Arizonans.
Will you help?
Arizona, unfortunately, has one of the highest rates of fatalities for bicyclists and pedestrians in the nation. We want to change that. We need more funds, more volunteers, and a much broader coalition of like-minded people to make Arizona a safer place to connect with our friends and each other. Arizona was once ranked 3rd in the nation for bike friendliness. Over the years, it slipped and slipped to 31st and has now slipped even further to 37th.
Each of us can contribute their time, skills and resources. Volunteers can only do so much. Our peer statewide advocacy organizations have full time staff that lead safe routes to school efforts, Cycling without Age programs, open streets events, bicycle and pedestrian safety and educations programs, courteously advocating routinely at the legislature and in the Congress. None of this will happen unless we take the first steps for ActiveAZ to be recognized as a committed leader of change.
Please join us (the Board of Directors) in the hard work ahead of us. Donate, join the board, volunteer at an event, ride your bike, roll to an ice cream shop, bike or run to your favorite trail.
Thank you!
Donate here: Donate – Active Arizona
Active Arizona (formerly known as the Coalition of Arizona Bicyclists)