Keep Ann Arbor's Makerspace Thriving
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MATCHING FUNDS AVAILABLE!
Members have generously committed to match $500 more in donations. Help meet our goal before January 1st!
This giving season, help us keep the creative sparks alive at All Hands Active, Ann Arbor's Makerspace! We're on a mission to cultivate Ann Arbor's creativity by providing classes, workshops, workspace, tools, and materials to our community!
Your generous donations to the annual Holiday Fundraiser help to support our long term development goals. Over the next year, we will be working on the following goals:
- Developing of a greater variety of beginner-friendly classes to reach a more diverse community of makers! We have always offered beginner-friendly classes on how to use the laser cutter, 3D printers, and CNC machines. This year we added generative art, sewing, and more! With your help, next year will include 3D modelling classes, digital art classes, crafting classes, and lots of kids activities.
- Developing intermediate- and higher-level classes geared toward career development. These classes will include higher-level training on the laser cutter, 3D printers, and CNC machines, as well as more intensive 3D modelling, digital art, and programming classes.
- Expanding instructor pay for our amazing instructors! This will help us diversify our class offerings
- Improving infrastructure at the space, which includes upgrades to our public PCs and creating dedicated kids materials.
- Increase our outreach efforts by attending (and demo-ing our tools at) more community events, and connecting with other organizations in the Ann Arbor area.
- Putting together ready-to-make projects for visitors to our space so that anyone who visits us leaves empowered to make! With your donations, we can keep soldering kits, Arduino kits, simple sewing kits, and craft kits on hand.
Your support also helps us improve, maintain, and expand our shop capacities! Funds from this year's Holiday Fundraiser will help purchase upgrades for our tools, such as...
- Improved ventilation to increase safety for 3D printing
- a dedicated painting area
- A wash and cure station for the newly donated Elegoo Mars resin 3D printer.
- a volcano hot end to improve non-planar 3D printing options
Moreover, your contributions ensure that visitors and members have access to materials for their projects. High material costs are often an individual's greatest barrier to becoming a maker - but when materials are a shared community resource, everyone has the opportunity to be a maker!
Of course, your donations also help us keep our doors open and the shop clean and safe.
Join us in spreading the joy of making this holiday season – donate to All Hands Active and be a part of our creative journey! ️
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All Hands Active
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Ann Arbor, MI