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Our challenge

To build the 4,000-square-foot community woodshop we envision, we will need to raise more than $675,000 in the months ahead. We are approaching foundations, other organizations and individuals, as well as planning a variety of fund-raising activities in the community.

To keep costs low, we are trying to build on the Johnson Farm—land that is already publicly owned. We also expect to do some of the construction work ourselves. And many professionals are donating their architectural and engineering services. We have also received donations of many of the tools we need for the shop.

Right now, we need donations to cover some of the specialized studies that need to be completed before we can get formal city approval to use the site. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, so your contribution is fully tax-deductible. Donate online by clicking on the button below. Or use snail mail to send a contribution to our treasurer, Wayne Blair, 16550 Agate Point Road, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110. Make checks payable to Bainbridge Island Community Woodshop.


  • Not your typical bus shelter

    Bus shelter framing The first houses in the new Ferncliff Avenue affordable housing project are just beginning to be built, but a beautiful amenity of the neighborhood—a timberframed bus shelter—is already in place. Volunteers from Bainbridge Island Community Woodshop assembled and finished the structure in mid November, using wood from trees that had to be cleared from the site to make way for the development. Coyote Woodworks, a Bainbridge sawmill company, milled the wood, and timberframers at Salisbury Construction cut the joinery. See how the structure took shape.