Executive Director

Company Description Free Bikes 4 Kidz® (FB4K™) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the wellbeing of children by providing free, quality bicycles to kids in need. FB4K™ brings together volunteers, donors, and community partners to collect, refurbish, and distribute bikes in a sustainable, environmentally responsible way. By focusing on access to active transportation, FB4K™ helps create pathways to better health, joy, and opportunity for young people. The organization emphasizes community engagement, collaboration, and inclusivity in all of its programs. Prospective team members will join a mission-driven organization that values impact, innovation, and strong relationships.

The role:

Executive Director — Free Bikes 4 Kidz Arizona

Location: Phoenix Metro Area, Arizona

Organization: Free Bikes 4 Kidz (FB4K)

Compensation: Initially volunteer; compensation dependent on successful fundraising and chapter financial sustainability

Get Bikes. Fix Bikes. Give Bikes Away.

At Free Bikes 4 Kidz (FB4K), our mission is simple: bring communities together to get bikes into the hands of kids who need them—creating a pathway to health, happiness, and opportunity.

FB4K has delivered more than 225,000 bikes across the country and is working toward an ambitious goal: 1 million bikes in 100 communities by 2033.

Our Arizona chapter is looking for its next leader.

The current Phoenix Executive Director has helped keep the chapter and its mission moving forward and would love to continue in the role, but personal circumstances no longer allow her to give the chapter the time and hands-on commitment it requires. She remains passionate about FB4K and will help make the transition to the next leader successful.

We are looking for an entrepreneurial, hands-on Executive Director who can take what has been started and build the next chapter of FB4K Arizona.

An Important Reality About This Position

This position is initially a volunteer executive role.

FB4K Arizona is in a build-and-grow stage and does not currently have the financial resources to support a paid Executive Director. A critical responsibility of the incoming ED will therefore be to develop the fundraising, sponsorships, grants and recurring revenue necessary to make the chapter financially sustainable.

As fundraising and chapter finances allow, the intention is for the Executive Director position to become compensated.

Part of the entrepreneurial challenge is building both the organization and the financial foundation that can ultimately support the position.

We want to be completely transparent about where the chapter is today and find someone who is excited by the opportunity to build it.

This Is an Executive Position—but It Is Not a Desk Job

The Executive Director is ultimately responsible for four things:

Get the bikes. Fix the bikes. Give the bikes away. Raise the money to make it happen.

At this stage, think one-person band with volunteer support, not a traditional nonprofit executive overseeing a large staff.

You might spend Monday meeting with a potential corporate sponsor, Tuesday recruiting volunteers, Wednesday arranging donated warehouse space, Thursday talking with schools and community organizations, and Saturday working alongside volunteers repairing bikes.

Sometimes you may be the person loading the truck, moving bikes, setting up workstations or sweeping the warehouse at the end of the day.

There is no “somebody else” department.

You are expected to build the organization while simultaneously doing the work.

What You Will Own

Get Bikes

Build relationships with individuals, businesses, municipalities, bike shops and community organizations to generate donated bicycles.

Organize bike collection campaigns and events, and develop the logistics needed to receive, transport, store and manage hundreds—and eventually thousands—of donated bikes.

Fix Bikes

Secure affordable or donated warehouse/workshop space and build an effective refurbishment operation.

Recruit, organize and retain volunteers; coordinate tools, parts, supplies, transportation and work sessions; and turn donated bicycles into safe, functional bikes for kids.

You don’t need to be a professional bicycle mechanic. You do need to be willing to learn, help and lead from the floor when necessary.

Give Bikes Away

Develop relationships with schools, nonprofits, tribal organizations and other community partners serving children who need bikes.

Coordinate distributions so bikes reach children effectively and responsibly, and create experiences that kids and families will remember.

Raise the Money

Fundraising is one of the most important responsibilities of this position. It isn’t delegated to a development department—there isn’t one.

You will identify and cultivate individual donors, corporate sponsors, foundations and community partners; pursue grants and sponsorships; and develop fundraising campaigns and recurring sources of support.

That fundraising has two purposes: put more bikes into the hands of kids and build an organization capable of sustaining its operations—including, eventually, a compensated Executive Director.

Build the Chapter

While operating the program, you will progressively build the infrastructure that allows FB4K Arizona to grow beyond a one-person organization.

That includes:

* Recruiting and developing a strong volunteer base

* Building an active, working board

* Developing corporate and community partnerships

* Establishing appropriate accounting, legal and compliance processes

* Driving marketing, communications and social media

* Creating repeatable collection, refurbishment and distribution processes

* Building sustainable fundraising

* Developing future operational leadership

The goal isn’t to remain a one-person band forever.

The job is to build something that eventually doesn’t have to be.

Who We Are Looking For:

We are looking for a builder and doer—someone entrepreneurial enough to see opportunity where infrastructure doesn’t yet exist and practical enough to turn ideas into action.

You may come from nonprofit leadership, business, operations, entrepreneurship, sales, fundraising, community development—or somewhere completely different.

More important is how you operate.

You should be comfortable:

* Working independently and figuring things out

* Asking people and companies for money

* Building relationships throughout the community

* Recruiting and motivating volunteers

* Managing multiple priorities with limited resources

* Creating structure where very little exists

* Solving problems without waiting for someone else

* Moving between strategy and physical execution

* Representing FB4K professionally with donors, corporations and community leaders

And ideally, you like bikes.

You don’t have to race them, know every component or spend your weekends in Lycra—but you should genuinely believe that every kid deserves the opportunity to experience the freedom, independence and joy of having a bike.

This Role Probably Isn’t for You If…

You’re looking for an executive position primarily focused on strategy, meetings and managing a team.

You need established systems before you can operate.

You believe fundraising belongs to somebody else.

You aren’t comfortable asking volunteers to help—and then working right beside them.

You’re looking for an immediately salaried executive position.

Or you think being Executive Director means somebody else loads the bikes.

This Role Might Be for You If…

You look at an empty warehouse and imagine hundreds of bikes being repaired inside it.

You can walk into a meeting with a CEO in the morning and work in jeans moving bicycles that afternoon.

You enjoy building organizations, relationships and systems from the ground up.

You’re resourceful, resilient and comfortable operating without a large staff or budget.

You see raising the resources to build the organization not simply as fundraising, but as entrepreneurship.

And when something needs to get done, your instinct is:

“I’ll figure it out.”

The Opportunity

This is an opportunity to build something tangible—not a program measured only in reports or meetings, but in bikes repaired, volunteers engaged, communities mobilized and kids riding away on bicycles of their own.

FB4K National provides the mission, brand, experience and connection to a national network that has already put more than 220,000 bikes into the hands of kids.

You also won’t be starting completely alone. The current chapter leader wants to see FB4K Arizona succeed and will support an effective transition, transferring the knowledge and relationships already developed.

What happens next in Arizona will depend heavily on its next leader.

Get bikes. Fix bikes. Give bikes away.

Everything else exists to make those three things possible.