Title: Communications Intern
Location: San Francisco, CA
Degree Required: Bachelors

Thunderhead Alliance for Biking and Walking is the national coalition of state and local organizations working together to promote bicycling and walking in North American communities. We bring leaders together to help them grow their organizations and become more effective by sharing best practices and innovations. The Alliance’s mission is to create, strengthen, and unite state and local bicycle and pedestrian advocacy organizations.

Position Overview

The Communications Intern will help implement the results of a year-long communications strategy and rebranding process. You will help shape and style Thunderhead Alliance’s online and/or print communications. This internship could involve creative and engaging tasks such as writing for Alliance publications and website, editing our communications, designing publications and print materials, helping launch new online communication tools and establish the Alliance in social networking channels, and creating marketing materials for our programs. Tasks assigned will depend on your skill set and interests.

This is a virtual internship (meaning you work from home) offering a flexible schedule with a fifteen-hour-a-week minimum commitment. We are happy to work with any academic requirements you may have, to help you earn course credit for their efforts.

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Title: Grassroots and Training Coordinator
Type: Full Time
Location: Washington DC
Degree Required: Bachelors

Thunderhead Alliance for Biking and Walking is the national coalition of state and local organizations working together to promote bicycling and walking in North American communities. We bring leaders together to help them grow their organizations and become more effective by sharing best practices and innovations. The Alliance’s mission is to create, strengthen, and unite state and local bicycle and pedestrian advocacy organizations.

Job Description

The Thunderhead Alliance for Biking and Walking is looking for an experienced grassroots organizer to manage a new program working directly with state and local bicycle and pedestrian advocacy organizations across North America. Based out of the Alliance’s office in Washington DC, the job will involve working closely with staff of the League of American Bicyclists and will require regular travel. Under the supervision of the Alliance President, the Grassroots and Training Coordinator will coordinate multiple components to the Alliance’s new State and Local Investment Program (to supercharge bicycle and pedestrian organizations across North America). Specifically the Grassroots and Training Organizer will: [continue reading…]

…got bounced around this week.

Just as it was getting close to being voted on in the Senate, an amendment came forward from Sen. Cuccinelli that would make it apply only to text messages. That amendment was defeated.

Then, a motion was made to re-refer the bill to Committee, but this time to the Courts of Justice Committee (the bill had originally come up through the Transportation committee) and that was done. Courts of Justice has long had a reputation as a “Killing Fields” committee, where no bills come out alive, but as I look at its current composition, that may not necessarily be the case on this one, as I only see about 3 arch-conservatives in its present composition.

This is a committee we don’t often deal with, so check to see if any of
you have your Senator among Chairman Marsh (Richmond), Saslaw, Stolle, Quayle, Norment, Howell, Lucas, Edwards (Roanoke), Reynolds, Puller, Cuccinelli, Obenshain, McDougle, Deeds, and Hurt. Give them a call if you do, since the bill could be heard as early as Monday.

Update: as Bud reports, SB 874 has been Passed By Indefinitely (killed) in committee. Read Bud’s report to find out why, and how things can happen at the Capitol.

…was reported out of the House Transportation Committee this afternoon by a 14-6 vote.

Now it’s on to the floor of the House in the next few days, where it went down by 48-47 last year. We have a few more votes this year, and Delegate Loupassi changed his position from his previous “no” votes, after being contacted by Emily Kimball and several other RABA constituents. So I think we have an excellent chance to get it through this time. If we do, I think it will go through the Senate by a wider margin.

Now we need everyone to call their Delegate’s office soon, and ask them to support HB 2386, Stop for Pedestrians in Crosswalks, on the House Floor.

Thanks to everyone who called their House Transportation Committee members!