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Big News
Bigs Skills at San Rafael High!
Big Skills is running at San Rafael High School! We are thrilled to be training another cohort of high school students and construction trades apprentices. In partnership with Canal Alliance, two of this year's apprentices are supported by their wraparound services!
Bigs Skills at Branson High!
Big Skills at Branson! Big Skills is now at the Branson School! Students get both hands-on build time, and dive into the sociology of the Bay Area's current and historical housing policies in the classroom through an innovative multi-disciplinary curriculum.
Branson supports our apprentices from Canal Alliance!
Jefferson Award
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Small Homes for Good!
Fall 2020 and 2021 Build: for Youth in Oakland
We are partners with Youth Spirit Artworks who initiated a community organizing campaign to build a Youth Tiny House Village in the Oakland. As of fall 2022, they've built 28 beautiful, youth-designed houses with the help of over 900 volunteers- including us, we built two of them!
Spring 2021 and 2022 build: for Wildfire survivors
We are partnering with Tiny Pine Foundation. They are building tiny homes for survivors who lost everything in recent wildfires. These tiny homes are 100% supported by volunteers and donations. They have over 500 families on their wait list.
HUGE thank you to our major sponsor
Miranda Lux Foundation
The Miranda Lux Foundation supports innovative and promising pre-vocational and vocational education proposals that prepare young people for the world of work. The Foundation awards grants to organizations and programs in the San Francisco Bay Area