Repair Café Pittsburgh Launches in Partnership with Construction Junction
Dust off your broken appliances, furniture, and electronics: Repair Café Pittsburgh is partnering with Construction Junction to officially launch our event series! Starting April 5, 2025, we’ll be offering a Repair Café the first Saturday each month at Construction Junction’s warehouse in Point Breeze North. Repair Cafés are always free and open to the public.
Established in cities across the world, Repair Cafés are community events where you can learn how to fix your stuff or help other people fix their stuff. They empower participants with the mindset that we are all capable of learning new skills and fixing things with our own hands.
Repairing items can save money and resources, and even help minimize CO2 emissions by keeping materials out of the landfill. But above all, Repair Cafés just want to show how fun and easy repairing things can be.
Here in Pittsburgh, it’s clear that many other people share our enthusiasm to start a Café of our own. We’re joining forces with Construction Junction because they’ve long supported our city’s local reuse economy and are now generously providing space to grow our repair community.
Join Us
There are several ways you can get involved with Repair Café Pittsburgh:
Volunteer
Want to help us make a Pittsburgh Repair Café happen? Fill out our volunteer form if you can help out with the following roles:
Event organizer
Repair specialist
Outreach coordinator
Social media smartypants
Grant writer
Vibe curator
Any other way you can share your knowledge, skills and talents.
Supporting green jobs is important to us. We’re initially asking for volunteers but intend to provide stipends to repair specialists and core organizers once we’ve shown proof of concept.
Donate Materials or Services
In-kind contributions greatly help reduce the operational costs of Repair Café PGH. If you have one box of materials, you can drop it off at Construction Junction during normal business hours, or fill out our donation form if you want to donate a larger quantity. Check the list on our donation form page first to see if you or your organization has eligible materials.
Tabling Organizations
Are you a nonprofit organization, community or mutual aid group, or education program that focuses on resource reuse or repair? Fill out our tabling form if you’d like to share information and resources at a future Repair Café.
Food and Beverage Vendors
We’re looking for food and beverage vendors to help fuel our monthly Repair Cafés. Fill out our vendor form to get started.
Sponsor
Your dollars can equip people with the tools and knowledge they need to fix broken items. With your help, we can find common ground through reuse and repair to build a more sustainable Pittsburgh. If your organization or business supports the right to repair and is invested in community development, we invite you to apply to be a Repair Café sponsor.