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The Haight-Nopa Repair Café has a list of about 130 volunteers, built up since May 2025.  Of those about 60 have volunteered one or more times.  Of course, weekends are valuable and many of those volunteers who have not yet participated may have always had a conflict with the Repair Café date and/or time.  Alternatively, they may have gone to the event specific form to sign up and found that their preferred role is already full….  

I am continually delighted (and pleasantly surprised) by the positive response to the Haight-Nopa Repair Café.  At least one of the reasons that originally spurred me to set it up­­ ….such as reducing resource use, encouraging a repair not a throwaway culture, building community, saving money, giving life to a loved object…. seems to resonate […]

There was a line snaking down the sidewalk outside the Park Branch Library well before the second Haight-Nopa Repair Café opened.  Word of mouth, flyers in the surrounding neighborhoods, postings on various event listings and on Next Door had worked some magic.  Clipboards with the registration forms and waivers were handed out down the line to speed up

It was a hubbub of activity at 1pm, Sunday 4th October in the community room at the Park Branch Library on Page Street. Repair volunteers were arriving with their tools, bakers were dropping off plates of homemade muffins, cakes and cookies, and general helpers were moving tables and putting up signs. Soon the room was […]