My name is Zac Shapiro, and I am a senior at Palisades High School and an avid cyclist. As some of you may know, I spend my free time biking all across Los Angeles. However, you may not know that I also dedicate my time volunteering with El Nido Family Centers, an LA non profit serving only the LA County community. El Nido’s mission is to empower families in low-income communities of Los Angeles County to break the cycle of poverty, child abuse, violence, academic failure, and teen pregnancy through outstanding educational, youth development, health, and therapeutic services (if you want to know more about El Nido, please visit https://www.elnidofamilycenters.org/about).

My time spent volunteering at El Nido is incredibly rewarding, as is being able to contribute to the amazing El Nido community. In order to raise money for El Nido, I am organizing a bike ride on the beach bike path across the Pacific Palisades and Santa Monica, and would be grateful if you would ride in the Bike - a - Thon and/or pledge a donation based on my biking or someone else's. There are several ways you can participate in the Bike - a - Thon. You can bike yourself, you can pledge a certain amount to support a biker, or you can pledge an amount per mile biked (by me, you or somebody else). If you participate in any of these ways, I would be very appreciative and you will be supporting an amazing organization.

Riders will be asked to obtain sponsors and we will have prizes for the top three riders based on amounts obtained from their sponsors.

I am so excited to see you all, and hope that you can join me and/or contribute to this awesome activity and great cause.

Zac's Bike-a-Thon!

Join us for a fun beach ride and support life-changing programs!

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