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Dykes With Drills was proud to partner with Rebuilding Together to help build 18 preschool sized picnic tables for low income preschools in San Francisco. We had both seasoned DWD participants and new builders a like. After a full day of building, we celebrated our accomplishment with a trip to the local queer bar. We are grateful for this opportunity and for all of those who came to build with us.

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Dykes With Drills teamed up with Otis Elevator to build eight beautiful planter boxes. 15 participants worked in teams to complete all planters, and gained confidence using tools, as well as team bonding, and leadership. Thanks to everyone who joined for this project!

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Dykes With Drills was proud to partner with Malcolm X Elementary School to build a new worm bin for their school garden. Even more special about this project is that we built the worm bin with youth! Thank you to Camp Beaverton for sponsoring this event and making it all possible. And thank you to everyone who came out and built with us!

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Dykes With Drills spent a day at Rodgers Ranch to install a new worm bin and beautify the community garden. Rodgers Ranch Heritage Center in Pleasant Hill, is a non-profit that offers classes, community garden beds and other ways for folks to get more connected with the earth.

Formerly known as Friends of Rodger Ranch, the non-profit organization was formed in 1986 to raise money for the restoration, preservation and maintenance of the Rodgers Ranch Historic Site. In 1991 the 1867 buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places and represent the few remnants of California's wheat growing past and Pleasant Hill's oldest structures.

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Dykes With Drills joined Habitat for Humanity for their Build With Pride community build in September.

Habitat is a proud partner of the LGBTQ community. In 1991, Steve Jacoby took the first steps toward bringing Habitat for Humanity to San Francisco. He died from AIDS before ever seeing the organization incorporated, but without his vision and work, Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco would not exist today.

The Build With Pride event honors the memory of Stephen Blake Jacoby. Dykes With Drills was excited to partner this year with Habitat for Humanity and thanks the Golden Gate Business Association for making this volunteer build possible.

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We are giving back to the community and making a wheelchair accessible planter box in San Francisco for the local community. In honor of Martin Luther King we gave back to our community and built a Wheelchair accessible planter box at the Argonne Community Garden in San Francisco. We lucked out on both volunteers and weather and had a great day building in the city.

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We had so much fun at the World Wide Women Girls Festival in San Francisco! Here are some photos from our life size picture frame activity and the girls who participated with us.

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This summer we worked with Youth Spirit Artworks to build one of twelve tiny houses going to serve homeless youth. We had ninety volunteers over three weekends join our fearless leaders Feifei and Anna Maria to build this house.

Here are some photos from the build! Thank you to Lydia Gonzales for taking these photos for us.

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Dykes With Drills teamed up with Map Box to create a beautiful light installation in their office. Each person worked on at least one, if not two letters, to complete this beautiful message, that is much needed in these times. Thanks to everyone at Map Box who joined for this project.

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Dykes With Drills hosted 3 work days in Graton, Ca building a deck, installing drawers, and tiling the fireplace of a queer owned tiny house.

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Dykes With Drills partnered with the Chico Housing Action team and the Saint Francis Homelessness Challenge to bring two tiny homes to those experiencing homelessness in Chico. We had more than 11 volunteers participate with us and raised over $2000 for this project. Thank you to everyone who came to support and who donated to make this possible.

Watch a video of this event here!

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We helped build a roof for the worm bins at the Social Advocates for Youth garden in Santa Rosa. This was a collaboration between WestSideTiny and Dykes With Drills and was a huge success. We are excited for more partnerships like this in the future. Thank you to everyone who came and built with us.

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Our first large scale community project was building a skate ramp at Playland Skate Park in San Francisco. We brought awareness of the plan to close the park to put in teacher housing to the neighborhood.

We had two weekend builds and ended the project with a Best Trick Skate Contest. Everyone was included - parents, kids, friends and family. That build marked the beginning of Dykes With Drills. It was something that couldn’t have been accomplished without the help of everyone. 

Watch a video of this community project here.

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