UnitedHealthcare Donates 26 Bicycles to Rocky Mountain Prep Students

  • Bicycles were built by UnitedHealthcare employee-volunteers at Denver’s Bike to Work Day event in June

Denver Police Department Community Resource Officer Mike Borquez delivers bike safety tips to students at Rocky Mountain Prep. The kids received brand-new bicycles and helmets from UnitedHealthcare (Photo courtesy of UnitedHealthcare).

DENVER--()--UnitedHealthcare donated 26 bicycles to students at Rocky Mountain Prep – Creekside Elementary School, a public elementary charter school. The bikes were assembled at Bike to Work Day 2017 in Civic Center Park at the UnitedHealthcare booth by UnitedHealthcare employee-volunteers and Bike to Work Day participants, with assistance from Wish for Wheels.

The kids who received the bikes were selected from a pool of students in grades K-2 with perfect attendance during the first two weeks of the 2017-18 schoolyear. During the donation event, the 26 students were properly fitted for their new bikes and helmets, and received a safety demonstration from Denver Police Department Community Resource Officer Mike Borquez.

This is the third year in a row that UnitedHealthcare has partnered with Wish for Wheels during Bike to Work Day to build and donate bikes to Denver-metro-area kids.

About UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping people nationwide live healthier lives by simplifying the health care experience, meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and sustaining trusted relationships with care providers. The company offers the full spectrum of health benefit programs for individuals, employers, military service members, retirees and their families, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and contracts directly with more than 1 million physicians and care professionals, and 6,000 hospitals and other care facilities nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and well-being company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare at uhc.com or follow @myUHC on Twitter.

About Rocky Mountain Prep
Rocky Mountain Prep is an innovative, public elementary charter school network in the Denver-metro area. Our mission is to educate students in prekindergarten through fifth grade with the rigorous academic preparation, character development, and individualized support necessary to succeed in a four-year college and life. Rocky Mountain Prep scholars and staff work hard to uphold our core PEAK values – Perseverance, Excellence, Adventure, and Kindness – on a daily basis. On both the 2015 and 2016 PARCC assessment, Rocky Mountain Prep Creekside was the top-performing elementary school in Denver serving a majority of students from low-income households. For more information, visit http://rockymountainprep.org.

About Wish for Wheels
Wish for Wheels is a Denver based nonprofit whose mission is to transform the lives of kids from low-income families, broadening their scope for personal growth and a healthy lifestyle through the gift of a new bicycle. We have given away over 16,000 new bikes and helmets mainly working with companies to do Team Builds, corporate philanthropy and positive social change. Wish for Wheels also has a kid2kid program and a Bike Team/Club. Visit https://wishforwheels.org/ to learn more.

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Contacts

UnitedHealthcare
Lisa Contreras, 602-255-7068
Lisa_Contreras@uhc.com

Release Summary

UnitedHealthcare donated 26 bicycles to students at Rocky Mountain Prep – Creekside Elementary School.

Contacts

UnitedHealthcare
Lisa Contreras, 602-255-7068
Lisa_Contreras@uhc.com