Bicycle Advocacy Volunteer Application Form

Make Your City More Bike-Friendly: Join Our Bicycle Advocacy Volunteer Team

Are you passionate about cycling, urban planning, and creating safer streets for everyone? Our bicycle advocacy volunteer program is looking for dedicated community members who want to make a real difference in how our city approaches cycling infrastructure and policy.

Why Bicycle Advocacy Matters

Cities worldwide are recognizing that bicycle-friendly infrastructure isn't just good for cyclists—it's good for everyone. Safe bike lanes reduce traffic congestion, lower carbon emissions, improve public health, and create more vibrant, walkable neighborhoods. But change doesn't happen without dedicated advocates pushing for better policies and infrastructure.

That's where you come in.

What Our Volunteers Do

Our bicycle advocacy volunteers work on meaningful projects that directly impact local cycling infrastructure and policy:

• Safe Routes Mapping: Help identify dangerous intersections, gaps in bike lane networks, and priority areas for new infrastructure. Your local knowledge helps us build data-driven cases for improvements.

• City Council Advocacy: Attend city council meetings to represent cyclist interests, provide public comment on transportation proposals, and build relationships with local officials who shape policy.

• Urban Planning Collaboration: Work with city planners, transportation departments, and community organizations to ensure cycling infrastructure is included in development projects and street redesigns.

• Community Engagement: Lead group rides, host community meetings, conduct rider surveys, and help build a broader coalition of cycling advocates in your neighborhood.

• Safety Education: Help develop and deliver cycling safety programs for schools, community centers, and new riders of all ages.

How Paperform Streamlines Your Volunteer Application

This bicycle advocacy volunteer application form is built with Paperform, the flexible form builder trusted by nonprofits and advocacy organizations worldwide. Unlike rigid survey tools, Paperform lets us create an application that feels personal and on-brand while capturing all the details we need to match you with the right volunteer opportunities.

Here's what makes this form work for volunteer recruitment:

• Conditional logic shows different questions based on your interests—if you're excited about urban planning, we'll ask about your background; if you want to focus on community rides, we'll learn about your group facilitation experience.

• Multi-page layout keeps the application organized without overwhelming applicants, breaking the process into logical sections: your background, your interests, your availability, and your skills.

• File uploads let you attach your resume or portfolio if you have relevant professional experience in urban planning, transportation, or community organizing—but it's entirely optional.

• Scheduling integration (when connected to your calendar) could let applicants book their volunteer orientation session right after submitting the application, eliminating back-and-forth emails.

Automate Your Volunteer Onboarding with Stepper

Once someone submits this application, you can use Stepper—Paperform's AI-native workflow builder—to automate your entire volunteer onboarding process:

• Automatically send personalized welcome emails based on volunteer interests
• Create tasks in your project management tool for volunteer coordinators to follow up
• Add approved volunteers to your CRM or mailing list with appropriate tags
• Schedule orientation sessions and send calendar invitations
• Route applications to the right team leads based on geographic area or interest area

This means your small volunteer coordinator team can handle more applications without drowning in manual admin work, and new volunteers get a faster, more welcoming experience.

Perfect for Advocacy Organizations and Community Groups

This template is designed specifically for bicycle advocacy nonprofits, but it works equally well for any transportation advocacy organization, environmental group, or community planning initiative. Whether you're a registered 501(c)(3) with paid staff or a grassroots volunteer collective, Paperform scales with your needs.

Organizations using Paperform for volunteer recruitment appreciate:

• Professional branding that matches your organization's visual identity, building trust with potential volunteers
• Mobile-friendly design so people can apply from their phones after hearing about your work at a community event
• SOC 2 Type II compliance and GDPR features that protect volunteer data and demonstrate your organization's professionalism
• Affordable pricing with nonprofit-friendly plans that don't nickel-and-dime you for every submission

Take Your Advocacy Further with eSignatures

If your volunteer program requires waivers, photo release forms, or confidentiality agreements, you can integrate Papersign—Paperform's eSignature solution—to automatically generate and send signature-ready documents based on application responses. Keep everything connected: the application, the approval, and the signed agreements, all in one clean audit trail.

Built for the Realities of Volunteer Coordination

We know volunteer coordinators are juggling dozens of tasks with limited time and resources. This template is designed to save you hours every week by:

• Capturing all the information you need upfront (reducing follow-up emails)
• Using smart questions that help you quickly identify highly-qualified volunteers
• Providing clear next steps so volunteers know what to expect
• Integrating with tools you already use like Google Sheets, Airtable, or Slack for instant notifications

Join the Movement for Better Cities

Bicycle advocacy is about more than just bike lanes—it's about creating cities that prioritize people over cars, health over convenience, and community over isolation. Every volunteer who steps up helps shift the conversation and push for real change.

Ready to welcome more passionate advocates to your team? Use this template to create an application process that's as welcoming and organized as the bike-friendly city you're working to build.

Get started with Paperform today and turn your volunteer applications into your volunteer community.