> here's a bit of info about this community
> building non-profit:
>
> The City Repair Project
> www.CityRepair.org
>
> The City Repair Project is group of citizen
> activists creating public gathering places and
> helping others to creatively transform the
> places where they live. We take space and make
> place like turning intersections into piazza's
> and special places to be. We also do Earth Day,
> VBC ( 10 days of natural building and events-
> building a village essentially), and many other
> place-making projects.
>
> With a mostly volunteer staff and the help of
> hundreds of volunteer citizen activists, our
> many projects:
>
> educate people about why most American
> neighborhoods are socially isolating and
> culturally inactive, and how we can transform
> them from the grassroots,
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> There ya have it! Let me know if you want more
> info, or want to get involved or know others
> that do. I used to do volunteer coordination
> with them. Now I do national outreach and
> consultation with cities aspiring to do this
> work as well.

If you ever want me to come to your city and do a workshop/ presentation just let me know I'll be happy too!!

love,
kachina Katrina*