Alder Commons: An Uncommon Project

Being residence builders, we at Hammer & Hand devote a good deal of our time performing remodels, new residences, and the occasional professional TI in Portland and Seattle. Nevertheless we pleasure ourselves on currently being top-notch builders and superior associates of our communities, it is not frequently that we get to be associated in a venture that is developed all around the strategy of neighborhood setting up alone. Doing the job on the Alder Commons community kitchen area create-out was a rare treat for us, and a person that intended a lot to many associates of our crew.

For the uninitiated, Alder Commons is a nonprofit room designed to aid multigenerational, multicultural neighborhood constructing and own expansion. They offer a put for self-directed finding out in courses and workshops on a extensive array of subject areas and for a varied array of peoples. From cooking lessons to bookshelf setting up, art courses to homeschool hangouts for little ones in the LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities, Alder Commons serves as a local community crossroad for intersectional cultural appreciation and self-improvement.

“Our mission is to cultivate an equitable, all-ages local community of self-directed learners. We aim to decrease boundaries between youth and grownups of diverse backgrounds by supplying an obtainable and inclusive area for them to share know-how and means.” (supply: Alder Commons | Philosophy)

When the Alder Commons team approached Hammer & Hand about making their group kitchen area house, we have been thrilled for the possibility to provide their dream to lifestyle. The challenge was designed by Communitecture, a regional architecture firm with an eye for creative neighborhood spaces and a mission for social justice. As standard builders with a concentrate in both design-driven jobs and progressing variety, fairness, and inclusion within just our have industry, it was a best in good shape for Hammer & Hand. We specific our heartfelt gratitude to Alder Commons for picking out Hammer & Hand to make a house that is now a commissary kitchen serving as house base for 16 compact, the vast majority-QTBIPOC foods and herbalism businesses.

Understand a lot more about the mission of Alder Commons and check out their calendar of functions at aldercommons.org

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