Originally Posted by Dave Mayer

Volunteers: you'll need experienced bike mechanics and instructors, shop administrators and fundraisers/promoters. Whatever you do, do not allow WOKE social justice warrior volunteer types to highjack your shop mission. Not only do they not know much about bikes or business, they will not contribute to actually keeping the shop operating. Their underlying objective will be to consume all shop resources (shop profile, money and volunteers) to serve their personal crusades including anti-poverty, immigration, climate change, green energy, ban the car, deforestation, save the narwhale, etc. Plus tear the shop apart from the inside with divisive politics. My former favorite Co-op imploded this way.