The Big Picture
ReBuilding for Justice
Be a Piece of the Puzzle
In 2021, we at ReBuilding Center shared how we can build on our strengths to help interrupt the environmental, racial, and economic injustice that continue to fuel our climate crisis.
You showed your support (thank you!). We did the work. We listened. We partnered. We accomplished so much, with even more to come in 2024.
Now, we are excited to share all we accomplished in 2023 and what’s to come in 2024!
What can we do?
We can harness reuse and repair to keep our communities whole. We can shift our focus to meet the needs of people who are most at risk of losing their homes and most vulnerable to the ravages of environmental disaster. We can leverage our huge inventory of reclaimed materials and home repair classes as anti-displacement tools to preserve affordable housing and advance climate justice.
How can we do this?
We can make our reclaimed materials and home repair classes even more affordable to support sustainable home repair, continually improve the quality of our materials, and find ways to donate materials and extend scholarships to low-income neighbors. We can offer free delivery to transit-dependent folks, take classes into the community with our new mobile shop, and open our workshop for the community to share.
YOU and your support are the most important piece of all, because together is how we will build that better tomorrow.
Please consider joining us today by making a gift to our Rebuilding for Justice Campaign.
Reuse and repair are cornerstones of community resilience and building blocks of climate justice.
Reuse
At ReBuilding Center, our materials re-vision the past into a piece of tomorrow. When we choose to donate rather than discard, when we choose to renew rather than buy new, we choose to be part of a community of makers and sharers.
Resilience
Fundamentally, ReBuilding Center provides affordable reclaimed materials and home-repair classes so people can sustainably mend and improve their homes. But the ripple effects of this work strengthen our community’s resilience further.
Repair
Can you wire a switch, frame a wall, or fix your leaky faucet? Do you know your way around a table saw, a chop saw, a planer, a jointer, and an orbital sander? If you do, did you learn how at ReBuilding Center? If not, did you know that you can?!
Climate
For decades, the decision to buy new has been made ever easier by cheap goods with hidden social and environmental costs. As individuals, we long to answer the question: “what can we do?”
Community
The practice of reuse and repair is a practice of sharing. It inspires a sense of interconnectedness, a feeling that we are all part of a continuum, creating something new together. This is the heart of COMMUNITY.
Justice
Since our founding nearly 25 years ago, ReBuilding Center has prided itself on the amount of material we keep out of landfills. But until recently, we didn’t talk about how reuse and repair can be tools for justice.