AMSAF Reaches Incredible Milestone
Last Updated: March 4th, 2024
THROUGH THE PASSION OF ITS MEMBERS, AMSAF REACHES ITS TENTH YEAR IN OPERATION
More than ten years ago, Mick Degn, AMSAF Executive Director, sought to bring his years of knowledge and experience to a non-profit organization that would promote motorcycle rider safety and awareness in an effort to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities.
HUMBLE BEGINNINGS
From AMSAF’s website we pulled this piece about their humble beginnings:
In 2011 a friend and an individual who was very active in the Motorcycle Community helping so many folks personally and through her magazine was killed in a Motorcycle crash. This individual was Kimmy Chapman. Every week we were seeing motorcycle crashes or fatalities and for whatever reason this one hit the motorcycle community hard. Many of us felt that we needed to do something to help promote motorcycle safety and awareness and hopefully through that we would help reduce crashes and fatalities. We needed an organization or Foundation that would help the community for a long time and not just a program or theme for the month.
So out of this came Arizona Motorcycle Safety and Awareness Foundation (AMSAF) which was created as a 501c3 nonprofit charity foundation. AMSAF felt that the best way to help promote motorcycle safety and awareness was through education. The next step was creating a Scholarship program that helped potential Motorcycle riders or motorcycle riders get the education they needed through motorcycle training.
Since that time AMSAF has helped over 2500 individuals throughout the State get into a Motorcycle training course. In addition, we have a Facebook page that has weekly safety tips, a newsletter and Billboards that are constantly promoting motorcycle safety.
Motorcycle crashes isn’t just a motorcycle rider problem, it’s a community problem. Motorcycle crashes are about 50 % the fault of the motorcycle rider. We all have to be careful and looking out for the other, no matter if it’s a caged vehicle or motorcycle.
AMSAF’S 2021 EFFORTS
As AMSAF begins its second decade of helping Arizona motorcyclists, it has pledged its efforts towards:
- Developing motorcycle rider education and training awareness
- Supporting legislation that directly affects motorcycle safety and awareness
- Supporting rider training programs
- Promoting media campaigns and public safety announcements
AMSAF bridges the gap between motorcycling and various industries, including healthcare, law enforcement, government agencies, and insurance to attack their mission from multiple angles.
If you want to Ride It Forward and make a donation to AMSAF, please do so today!
