For ten years, Open Works has been serving up power tools, practical education, and camaraderie in Greenmount West and beyond!

At the ribbon cutting for our current facility, in Sept. 2016, Congressman Elijah Cummings called Open Works "a house of dreams." He understood that access to tools could be a great equalizer of opportunity, and with your help, we will keep making good on that promise for decades to come. Help write the next chapter of our story with a tax-deductible donation towards our Ten for Ten campaign!

There are 4 easy ways to support:

Buy or reserve a free ticket to our 10th birthday party!
Make a recurring monthly donation
Bid on an artist-designed saltbox for our charity auction
Check out some limited-edition merch on our Shopify page

The first $24,000 in donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar by our generous 10 For 10 sponsors, including STV Inc., Rosenberg Martin Greenberg LLP, Mr. Vinyl Records, C.E.A. Scholtes and Associates CPA, Figure 53, Heller Kowitz, Brailsford and Dunlavy, C.L. McCoy Framing, BGE, and Enhanced Computing Solutions.

As one of the largest nonprofit makerspaces in the United States, we've enrolled over 9,000 adults and 2,000 young people in STEM education programs since 2016. Just over 400 small businesses and startups have been nurtured within our walls. Our members have made everything from wedding rings to installations on the White House lawn. We've brought free hi-speed wi-fi to broadband deserts and made face shields during Covid. In 2022, we helped pass the first statewide funding for makerspaces in the whole country.

But if we truly want to make technology accessible to everyone, we still have a lot of work to do! In 2027, we are breaking ground on Westside Open Works at Walbrook Mill, next door to Coppin State. Baltimore will be the first city in the United States to have a public makerspace network.

"Hypergrafia Salt Box" by Josh Burggraf