Access for Today

How Your Support Helps:

1. Language Barriers: Your contributions will help provide interpreters and translation services for our workshop content.

2. Registration Scholarships: We aim to provide stipends to participants facing financial hardship, allowing them to focus on learning without worrying about financial constraints.

3. Expanded Advertisement: Print advertisement, Discord, and expanded social media offerings to reach more people.

4. Community Partnerships: Establishing new workshop locations across Maine, ensuring more individuals can access our programs conveniently and partnering with organizations within those communities to support the participants' needs.

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Our Mission

We strive to provide a safe and collaborative environment to learn carpentry skills and power tool use.

We connect participants with tradespeople and mentors to develop skills, confidence and community.

Our Story

  • “The best part was the incredible instructors, friendly and supportive."

    ~ Catharine H, Participant

    We Built This, frame to finish, carpentry, carpentry skills, Maine

  • "Thanks for a great experience. Went beyond expectations."

    ~ Brian L, Opus One Studio, Host

    We Built This, Shelf building, instructor, carpentry skills, woodworking

  • "If you're ready to learn some rad skills, check this program out!

    ~ HELM, Sponsor

    HELM, We Built This, sponsor, community, carpentry skills
Testimonials
We Built This participants gather for instruction at the Frame to Finish Workshop in 2023
Participants of the Timber Frame Workshop in Fall 2021
Frame to Finish Workshop participants in front of the completed Portland Mobile Free Pantry
Participants at the first Introduction to Carpentry workshop in 2020
We Built This participants at the 2023 Introduction to Carpentry Workshop
An Introduction to New England Porch Weave participants completes his chair
Group photo of We Built This Introduction to Chair Caning Workshop
Participants learn about standing seam metal roofing at the Mobile Free Pantry Frame to Finish Workshop
We Built This participants with their finished walnut shelves at the Opus One Studio
Participant smiles with their new finger jointed stool from the Introduction to Joinery Workshop
A We Built This Participant practices laying out cuts on a tool box in Introduction to Carpentry