✔️ Phase 1: Creating a Place for More Things = $30,000 RAISED

Phase 2: Room for Friends = $20,500 needed

Interior classroom and community spaces required extensive clean-up, reconstruction, and renewal. This work was completed by our AMAZING volunteer crew!

Mechanical, electrical, and comfort upgrades were necessary to make this space a safe gathering space, and a Response Center in all weather conditions, including ice, heat, and smoke.

Work has been performed as funds became available, through donations, grants, and sponsorships. We are SO CLOSE!

Additional Major Expenses

Performance Bond: $4,200

A bond is required by our landlords, Multnomah County, to protect the property during construction. This is standard for commercial construction and renovation projects.

Backflow Valve: $3,900

Rockwood Water Public Utility District requires a backflow valve be installed in all commercial properties, regardless of the risk of contamination and water pressure usage inside. While the probability of our freshwater backing up is less than 1%, this is an unavoidable improvement that ultimately ensures the protection of our community water supply.

Immediate Impacts of Your Investment

Frequent Repair Cafes & Skill Sharing Workshops

Classroom space with storage and comfortability improvements will enable us (and partners) to host free and low-cost classes to build skills, share information, and grow neighborhood resilience.

Why It Matters?

Imagine neighbors exchanging skills and problem solving over a cup of coffee and a piece of cake. That's real community: resilient, connected, and ready for anything.

Youth STEM Activities

Our Scavenger Club empowers elementary students to take apart toasters, DVD players, and small electronics to learn how they work.

Why It Matters?

Hands-on learning builds core competencies in STEM, and empowers children to explore the built environment. Indoor learning and exploration activities like our Scavenger Club build lifelong skills and friendships on the neighborhood.

Community Action Meetings

Join your neighbors to plan public events, improve air quality, organize clean-ups or advocate with government representatives.

Neighborhood Listening

Government and community leaders need to hear from Rockwood residents. This classroom space will facilitate private and public meeting space for Associations and community groups to organize and make an impact!

Emergency Response Classes

Building resilience skills during blue skies helps keep neighbors safe when wildfires, earthquakes, or storms roll in. Trained professionals from local and state departments are ready to teach preparedness in our community right now.

Phase 3: A Pathway to Free Electricity!

» $78,500 needed «

Within 5 years, we will be replacing the roof to prepare for solar installation.* This phase cannot be started until fully-funded.

Timeline

March 2026

Multnomah County approves community-supported proposal for
Rockwood Repair & Reuse Center at 18600 SE Stark St!
The lease agreement secured 2,600 sq ft in Rockwood Town Center
for 20 years as a tool library, classroom and skill building site, and reuse center!

May 2026

Phase 1 fully funded, with over 40 contributing community members, grants, and small businesses!

✔️ Phase 1: Creating a Place for More Things

» View Original Phase 1 campaign «

» $30,000 RAISED «

Together with our community of builders, makers, and doers, we will be revitalizing a dormant building in the heart of Rockwood Town Center. These deferred maintenance tasks and improvements are a requirement of our rent-free lease. All of these items will be completed before we can move in this summer.

Repairing Rockwood: Phase 2

Community Classroom & Resilience Building Hub

Team Members