Rideshare Insurance Co-op Fund

Hi,

We are raising money to get the first months insurance of $12,000,  and kick off the initial buy.  

People's Ride has been up and running but  currently has reverted back into development mode.  We need company wide insurance in order to make cost for insurance reasonable for drivers and to function as a rideshare. We imagine if 200 drivers put in $41 a month we will easly have affordable coverage here on out. 

A little about my background, I am a substitute teacher and an Uber driver in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  I believe in creating a new world for tomorrow's youth.  Change needs to happen everywhere.  My whole higher education involved figuring out what that might look like.     

People's Ride is about creating a new economy and a better future.  It is about creating a different kind of job.  One where people are able to use both their brain and muscle together and be wholly human.  

People's Ride is a worker co-op where those who drive also own and control the business.  If a work week is 5 days, a driver picks up people and collects fares 4 days while on the 5th sit in meetings to make decisions about the company.      

Though it goes against the grain for business as usual here in Grand Rapids, the co-op community is growing.  Housing, live/ work co-ops, land, food, beer, bicycling, honey bee, ridesharing co-ops are working together in solidarity to bring about an alternative.   I think it goes without saying, people around the nation yern for an alternative to the current politics and work life.  

To find out more on People's Ride take a look at an article put together by our partner Democracy at Work out of New York City, Coop Profile, People's Ride: http://www.democracyatwork.info/profile_peoplesride spanish, http://www.democracyatwork.info/cooperativadestacado_peoplesride . 

We have been following the Cooperative Development Institute's guide to starting cooperatives.  As in the spirit of the cooperative movement, we collaborate and learn from other ride sharing cooperatives from around the nation.  We have the potential to grow very fast.  Right now we are focusing on putting in place a solid infrastructure.  

Any amount makes a difference!  Big or small, $10, $50, $100, $500, you name it.  A contribution of $50 makes you a consumer member and gives you 10% off, $100 gives you 10 rides for half off, $200 gives you 20 rides, $500 gives you 50 rides.   Help build the co-op community in Grand Rapids and around the nation.

People who do crowdfunding say that their success is owed, to how many people are reached.  So please, after you make a contribution, send this to all the friends you can think of.  


Big Thanks,

Matt Bair

We have an app similar to Uber, download it for Android or Apple and take look here: 

PRide app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.multibrains.taxi.passenger.peoplesride 

PRide driver
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.multibrains.taxi.driver.peoplesride 


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