Over the last 15 years, the City Repair Project and the Village Building Convergence (VBC) has built community throughout the Portland metro area by facilitating over 350 projects – like sculpted benches, cobb ovens; community gardens, mini-libraries, kiosks, and incredible intersection repairs and paintings. These projects have been accomplished by a strictly volunteer staff and thousands of neighborhood members. As a result of our work we have seen tremendous results within Portland - including lower crime rates, increased property values, and more neighborhood involvement.

We need your help maintaining VBC’s existing structure and expanding into new, worthwhile communities. 

We are at risk of losing our hard-won knowledge and experience as our operation expands and our unpaid volunteers are being asked to commit to ever more complicated and time intensive projects without proper financial resources or compensation.

Between this past April 15 and June 14, Mark Lakeman and his non-profit, the Village Building Convergence (VBC), helped crowdsource $5,995 through Indiegogo to contribute towards pictures, stories and documentation; grant writing seed fund and seed funding; core leadership compensation; and central location for evening events.