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.

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
• Matt Phillips, Office Coordinator
• Maralena Murphy, Bookkeeper
• Marc de Giere, Technology Coordinator
• Gary Marschke, Fundraising Co-Coordinator
• Rebecca Pillsbury, Fundraising Co-Coordinator

Includes some of the Board, staff, each project coordinator and other City Repair elders/activists. People you may see at Council meetings include:

• Brush, Community Activist, Social Ecology Coordinator
• Hindi Iserhott, Board member, City Riparian Coordinator, former Programs Coordinator
• Arif Kahn, DePave Coordinator
• Mark Lakeman, Village Building Convergence Coordinator, Co-Founder
• Jenny Leis, Board member
• Matt Phillips, Office Coordinator
• Bruce Podobnik, Board member

• Hindi Iserhott, Board member and City Riparian coordinator
• Mark Lakeman, Board member and City Repair co-founder
• Jenny Leis, Interim President
• Bruce Podobnik, Board member and Lewis and Clark Professor of Sociology

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.)

Also, check out our Organizational Documents & Bylaws