Get Involved with Repair!

Volunteer to work in cyberspace to help further a culture of repair!

(In-person volunteer opportunities in The East Bay, California, are HERE.)

The Culture of Repair Project is currently focused primarily on supporting teaching about repair in educational setting, bringing the mindset, technologies, thinking skills, systems understandings, and caring values, into K - 12 educational settings.

The most exciting objective is to provide educators what they need to integrate repair into core subject areas, fulfilling curricular standards, thereby enriching classroom instruction.

This initiative also maintains resource pages for people interested in various other dimensions of repair: technical how-to’s, scholarship and research, global repair initiatives, arts, mind, body and spirit, and others.

This work, with its global reach, is almost entirely virtual.

Because everything I do is in collaboration with others I often write as “we”. But, in fact, “we” = me. My time and technical expertise are limited and many, many opportunities get by for lack of resources.

Principal areas of work I could use help in:

  • Finding and creating images for newsletters, the website and social media

  • Supporting newsletters: editing text for clarity, brevity and punch; reviewing the overall flow of content; checking spelling, grammar, syntax; creating content

  • Scouring the internet for materials to add to resources pages

  • Turbocharging distributing educational materials

  • Maintaining this website

  • Helping administer the grants program

  • Networking

  • Thinking through programming — what, when, how

  • Reflecting with me about repair —> thinking big thoughts!

I could use a hand.

If you’d like to help out, take a look around the website. Then email and tell me a little about yourself, including what work you’re interested in and what skills and experience you would bring to that work.

My intentions are to give people enthusiastic about repair a space to deploy their strengths for the largest impact, to manage this project with a high degree of professionalism, and to get things done.

As a non-educator focused on repair in educational settings, I particularly need input and guidance from professional K-12 educators.

The Culture of Repair Project is a volunteer and private initiative, run by me, with the support of many generous souls volunteering their time and expertise.

The initiative is not a 501(c)3.

Yet.