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HBL VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITy Mailing List

From bike path cleanups to office work, HBL has many volunteer opportunities throughout the year. Please click the button below to sign up for announcements about upcoming volunteer opportunities.

Large Event Volunteer Opportunities

Our annual Haleʻiwa Metric Century and Honolulu Century Rides wouldn’t succeed without the support of hundreds of volunteers! Visit our HMC and HCR volunteering page for more info on how you can help these large events.

WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW?

4/25 – 4/28 (Thurs-Sun) Haleʻiwa metric century

Four full days of volunteering help the Haleʻiwa Metric Century succeed. Whether you want to prepare rider packets, move supplies, or offer support on ride day, we’ll have a volunteer opportunity for you at the 2024 HMC. 

4/20 2024 Pearl Harbor Bike Path Cleanup

Join HBL and other community organizations for a major cleanup on Pearl Harbor Historic Trail (aka the Pearl Harbor Bike Path) in celebration of Earth Day 2024! The cleanup is Saturday, April 20th from 8:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at Blaisdell Park.  

PAST VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES:

3/2 (sAT) HBL Annual BENEFIT DINNER BIKE VALET

On Saturday March 2, HBL will be hosting its Annual Benefit Dinner at the Queen Kapiʻolani Hotel in Waikīkī. HBL will be operating a bike valet at the hotel to accommodate event attendees, and we need your help! Volunteers receive a free meal. Shift is from 5:30pm-10pm. 

 

2/21 (Weds) Pensacola Street PBL Cleanup

You’re invited to help beautify our bikeways! HBL is hosting a cleanup of the bike lane on Pensacola Street. This Protected Bike Lane (PBL) is important to biking in the urban core and counts show on average it sees over 200 riders using it daily. Wednesday, Feb 21st, 5:00 – 7:30PM.

2/3 (Sat) Bike Valet @ Night in Chinatown Festival

HBL will be proving a free bike valet service to those biking to the Night in Chinatown Festival. Volunteers receive a free meal and can enjoy the event before or after their shift!

1/20 (Sat) Keiki Helmet Giveaway @Kam’s Helmet Night

Help get brand new helmets out to keiki on Saturday, January 20th, where HBL will be partnering with the Hawai‘i Pacific University Men’s basketball team to give away more than 100 helmets to youth at HPU’s basketball game. This helmet giveaway is in honour of Kameron Steinhoff, a former HPU teammate who tragically passed away after suffering head injuries from a skateboard crash in 2011.

Bike Valet with HBL at the 2024 Sony Open

What do flat tubes & golf have in common? . . . They both get hole-in-ones! XD

Bad jokes aside, we are looking for volunteers to help bike valet with us at the 2024 Sony Open in Hawai‘i, happening Jan. 11 (Thu) through Jan. 14 (Sun) in the Kahala area. Not only does this volunteer opportunity come with good karma for helping their event be more sustainable, but every person that volunteers at bike valet gets a ticket to the Sony Open, where you’ll be able to watch 144 of the world’s greatest golfers putt it out at the Wai‘alae Country Club!

WARD AVE. PROTECTED BIKE LANE CLEANUP

Join HBL, Patagonia, & City’s Dept. Of Facility Maintenance to help the bicycle community have a smoother commute on Ward by cleaning debris off the Ward bike lane! We’ll be meeting at Patagonia (535 Ward Ave., Honolulu) and cleaning the bike lane from 5pm-7:30pm! Click here to sign up for the 10/18 Ward Ave. cleanup!

Live the [bike] life greener, make PHBP cleaner!

Join HBL, City’s Department of Facilities’ Storm Water Quality Division & other community organizations in giving back to the ‘āina with a Clean-up of the Pearl Harbor Bike Path (Saturday, October 28th)! HBL will be responsible for cleaning the bike path section that goes along behind Waipahu High School. We’ll have cleaning supplies and light refreshments, so all you’ll have to do is bring yourself, a reusable water bottle, and some friends!

Help clean the bike path

Help keep the bike path and areas around Kapapapuhi Park free of debris and non-native plants. Every Wednesday 9am-11am and second Saturdays 8am-noon! 

Volunteers needed for HBL’s Annual Benefit Dinner!

HBL will be hosting our Annual Benefit Dinner after three years, but we need your help with the event! We’re looking for detailed volunteers to help with tasks such as: general setup/ cleanup, silent auction, & more.

Deliver Meals on [bike] wheels on friday, march 31st!

HBL & Hawaii Meals on Wheels (HMoW) are partnering up on March 31st (FRIDAY), to deliver warms meals to O‘ahu’s kūpuna community… on BIKES! We’ll meet outside of Straub Hospital (King Street side) at 10:30AM, where volunteers will be split up into groups of 2-3 (1 rider to hold the meals & 1 rider to navigate). Once volunteers receive route orientation outside the hospital, they’ll go into the kitchen to pick up the hot meals and cold items. We will go over the route, delivery instructions and delivery tips. Masks are required to enter the hospital and caps (helmets count!) to cover your head when we enter the kitchen. HMoW will provide delivery supplies and route directions. Click here to sign-up as a group or individually to be matched with another volunteer.

Volunteers needed for the 30TH ANNUAL Hale‘iwa Metric Century Ride!

The Hale‘iwa Metric Century fundraising ride is back to celebrate its 30th Anniversary on Sunday, April 30th! We have about 200 positions that need to be filled, including: packet pick-up, day-of registration, and more! Click here to be taken to the HMC page and scroll down to ‘Volunteer to Help’ tab to see volunteer position descriptions and to sign up!

Volunteers needed for the 11th Annual Waimānalo Backroads cleanup

Mālama ‘Āina! Join HBL in giving some TLC to the backroads of Waimānalo. We’ll be picking up trash (big & small!) along the roads. HBL & Storm Water Quality Divison will provide supplies, safety vests, volunteers shirts, and lunch!

Volunteers needed for the 40TH ANNUAL HONOLULU CENTURY RIDE!

The Honolulu Century Ride is HBL’s largest fundraising event. It’s been 3 years since we are able to host this event, so we hope to make this the biggest comeback ever. In order to do that, we need your help! Click here to be taken to the HCR page and scroll down to ‘Volunteer to Help’ tab to see volunteer position descriptions and to sign up!