I need your support for my GRAMMY Ride
Grammy Rides Across America for Climate Action
Read my climate story here.
September 1 – November 23, 2024, I am riding a self-contained 3200-mile Climate Ride Independent Challenge fundraising bicycle trip called: the GRAMMY Ride – Grammy Rides Across America for Climate Action to raise $500,000 for five local and national climate action organizations. 

I recently turned 66 years old, and ever since I was 18 years old in 1976, I have wanted to ride my bicycle across America. Over the years, I have ridden tens of thousands of miles on my bicycle, and because I am not getting any younger, I am plunging toward this Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) before I get too old to make it happen! 

Adding to my BHAG, I have set an ambitious goal to raise $500,000 and community awareness for sustainable climate solutions and active transportation. My BHAG is called the GRAMMY Ride because, as a Grammy to three precious grandchildren, I am regularly thinking about how to make our world a better place for my grandchildren, your grandchildren, and everyone’s children as well as for us!

For 12 weeks, I will be cycling with my long-time bicycling friend, Becky Bolander, from San Diego, CA to St. Augustine, FL to support five fiscally responsible climate action organizations to improve our and our planet’s future:
Climate Generation
Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light
Third Act
Climate STARR (Climate Strategies for Trauma, Action, Resilience, and Regeneration) 
Climate Ride
I am covering all my personal trip costs, so 100% of the contributions toward my $500,000 BHAG will support climate justice action from money I received from my parents when my father died in February 2020. My self-contained bicycling adventure is a physical, mental, and financial challenge - so I need the help of others like you and your thousands of climate action friends! I invite you to share my story with your community so others can participate with generous giving, inspiration, and thoughts and prayers. 

Although I am a solid, sturdy cyclist, I will need all the psychological and spiritual help I can get! Together, we can work for good things to happen for the future of our life together on MotheEarth.

Make a secure online donation to GRAMMY Ride today by clicking on the 'Support Me' button. You will automatically receive an acknowledgment, and I will be notified by text and email of your generous support. Contact me at [email protected] for instructions for donor advised fund giving. I promise you, I will shout Yes!!!!! and do a happy dance with every donation! 

Thank you for your help — you are part of the positive change we so desperately need!  

Purpose feeds our dignity. Let's do this together. Yes!!!!

Feel free to follow the GRAMMY Ride on Facebook and Instagram to join my journey!

Cheers to a healed, healthier planet,
Donna Minter aka Grammy

Contact me at [email protected] if you want to be a sponsor and/or have fundraising ideas to share with me. 

P.S. Thanks to the Climate Ride Team for allowing me to make the GRAMMY Ride a Climate Ride Independent Challenge. I highly recommend Climate Ride events that are unique and life-changing experiences. Their organization delivers millions of dollars in grants each year to other nonprofits in the fields of bike advocacy, conservation, and climate solutions around the U.S. To sign up for your own amazing Climate Ride experience, you can check out their events list here!

        Left to right: "Grammy" aka Donna Minter & her bicycling sister, Becky Bolander on a Climate Ride in Joshua Tree National Park, CA.