What is RamRide Night Operations?
RamRide Night Ops is a safe ride for CSU students. We operate a fleet of 16 vehicles on Friday and Saturday nights, 10:00 pm-2:30 am, and provide rides within Fort Collins. Students can request a ride via the RamRide app or by calling 970-491-3333.
RamRide was founded in ASCSU in the fall of 2003. Its first night of operations was October 24. ASCSU ran the program until 2013. During those 10 years, ASCSU built the fleet up to 19 vehicles and operated on Thursday nights. The program grew so large that it needed full-time staff support which spurred moving the program into Off-Campus Life in fall 2013. Off-Campus Life continued to operate the 19 vehicles and Thursday nights until COVID, which brought some changes to the program including a small reduction in fleet size and reducing nights of operation.
What is RamRide Food Operations?
RamRide Food Ops delivers boxes of food from the Rams Against Hunger Food Pantry on Friday afternoons to students, staff, and faculty who cannot visit the food pantry in person. Students/staff/faculty submit a request form online for a box to be delivered to their residence on most Fridays.
RamRide Food Ops started in February of 2020, when two CSU students, Brandon Paez, and Courtney Hagg, came up with an idea to help their fellow rams. Their idea started as a class project to address a societal problem. Paez and Hagg decided to focus on food insecurity and advocate for additional initiatives on campus.
After meeting with the students, RamRide and Rams Against Hunger teamed up to start the pilot program at the beginning of February 2020. The original program included driving students from the LSC to the Food Bank for Larimer County, giving them time to shop, and then driving them home. 126 students were given a ride home within the first few weeks that RamRide Food Ops was operating. But unfortunately, because of COVID, Food ops had to be put on hold.
What is RamRide Secure?
RamRide Secure, in a partnership with Lyft, is a basic needs service to support students who have a temporary or sporadic transportation insecurity. Students can apply to receive up to $150 that can be used towards Lyft rides or Spin e-scooter/e-bike rentals.
RamRide started partnering with Lyft in 2020 due to our inability to run our own fleet to keep people socially distanced. Once the RamRide Night Ops fleet returned to the road in the fall of 2021, RamRide maintained its partnership with Lyft so we could support student’s transportation needs 24/7, nationwide.
What is RamRide Secure?
RamRide x Lyft allows RamRide to provide free, safe rides (via Lyft) nationwide. RamRide will launch a code to give students free Lyft rides during holidays where we expect to see an increase in drinking and the RamRide fleet is not on the road. We typically launch codes during holidays such as the 4th of July, Halloween, New Year’s Eve, St. Patrick’s Day, and Cinco de Mayo. The codes are usually available either throughout the state or throughout the country to support students’ safety regardless of where they are located. The amount of free rides and/or holidays we support is budget-dependent.
RamRide started partnering with Lyft in 2020 due to our inability to run our fleet with keep people socially distanced. This partnership gave us the option to continue supporting students with their transportation needs 24/7, nationwide.
Mission
National: Partner and collaborate with Town-Gown communities to exchange resources and knowledge in order to enhance off-campus living experiences for our communities.
Vision
Off-Campus Life’s vision is to unite people in locations with institutions of higher education in building informed and evolving communities.
Purpose
Off-Campus Life helps students moving or living off campus to have a successful transition and integration into the Fort Collins community.