Sawhorse Revolution

Mission

Sawhorse Revolution fosters confident, community-oriented youth through the power of carpentry and craft. As more and more shop classes are pulled from Seattle high schools, Sawhorse Revolution seeks to provide trades, skills, career, and leadership training for the young people most impacted by this loss, offering free-of-cost carpentry and design education programs for students primarily in Central and South Seattle neighborhoods.

Why Give? 

Your contribution to Sawhorse Revolution will directly benefit a more equitable, intersectional vision of the future of architecture, design, and community engagement. We deeply value the opportunity to support our neighbors through unique build projects, and we see the effects ripple out with huge impact throughout our city.

Your donation supports:
+ Teens learning carpentry and architecture through the creation of a project that benefits the community
+ Long-term infrastructure for grassroots organizations
+ Youth collaborating on thoughtful, creative approaches to systemic issues

Our Goal: 
Our goal is to raise $15,000 through GiveBIG to support our Resilient Environments Laboratory programs: a series of thoughtful, collaborative, community-centric carpentry and design programs that interrogate pressing concerns facing our region. "RELab" 

Project History:
Since 2012, Sawhorse Revolution has offered free-of-cost, holistic, hands-on design and build programming for teens furthest from educational justice. In 2022, we expanded our year-long design build programs to include a deeper dive into sensitive, high level issues like homelessness, community wellness, mutual aid, and more. Our high school youth are more than ready to take on these issues with respect, creativity, and hope.