The City Repair Project is group of citizen activists creating public gathering places and helping others to creatively transform the places where they live.

City Repair’s projects:

• inspire people to both understand themselves as part of a larger community and fulfill their own creative potential, and
• activate people to be part of the communities around them, as well as part of the decision-making that shapes the future of their communities.

The many projects of City Repair have been accomplished by a mostly volunteer staff and the help of hundreds of volunteer citizen activists.

City Repair was formed in Portland, Oregon in 1996 by citizen activists who wanted a more community-oriented and ecologically sustainable society. Born out of a successful grassroots neighborhood initiative that converted a residential street intersection into a neighborhood public square, City Repair began its work with the idea that //**localization**// (of culture, of economy, of decision-making) is a necessary foundation of sustainability. By reclaiming urban spaces to create community-oriented places, we plant the seeds for greater neighborhood communication, empower our communities and nurture our local culture.

We are an almost entirely volunteer-run social-profit (non-profit) organization. Our projects include:

• temporary and permanent placemaking installations,
• community events,
• educational presentations,
• consultation and technical assistance,
• community placemaking facilitation, and
• the development of our own egalitarian community of activists and volunteers.

The City Repair Project maintains an office in Portland, operating with over 15 largely volunteer and part-time staff, coordinators, and assistants.

• Placemaking and architecture
• Urban planning and design
• Ecological and Social Sustainability
• Community resource localization
• Nonhierarchical decision-making: Resources include:

Seeds for Change, Making Decisions Co-operatively, Starhawk's Activism Page

• Equality, diversity and peace
• Cultural identity and Bioregionalism
• Paradigm reconstruction

Find out how you can create an **organized group action** here...

We’re Portlanders and newcomers, students, professionals, laborers, cooks and bottle-washers. Check out People for a sampling of profiles of many others involved with City Repair.

• Marc Kochanski, Volunteer Coordinator
• Hindi Iserhott, Program Coordinator

Includes most of our paid staff, some of the Board, and also each project coordinator. People you may see at Council meetings include:

• Marc Kochanski, Volunteer Coordinator
• Hindi Iserhott, T-Horse Coordinator, Program Coordinator
• Brush, Community Activist, Social Ecology Coordinator
• Leonard Barrett, “City Riparian” / Village Planting Convergence
• Jonathan Brandt, Village Information Systems Coordinator
• Bob New, Earth Day Coordinator
• Mark Lakeman, Village Building Convergence Coordinator, Co-Founder
• Arif Kahn, DePave Coordinator

• Jenny Leis, Interim President
• Mark Lakeman, Board member and City Repair co-founder
• Bruce Podobnik, Board member and Lewis and Clark Professor of Sociology
• Jenn Brenner, Treasurer
• Jan Semenza*, Board member and PSU professor (*on sabbatical)

We depend almost entirely on individual donations to cover our general operating expenses. Please help support our work with a monetary or in-kind donation! (All donations are tax-exempt under our federal 501©3status.)

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Also, check out our Organizational Documents & Bylaws