Everyone here was new once.
Whether you're fourteen and curious, seventy and retired, or somewhere between and just want to be useful on a Saturday — there is a job with your name on it.
In the makerspace · Thursdays
Become a Changemaker.
The Career Launch Program is free, runs after school and on weekends, and is open to anyone aged 10 to 24. You don't need a business idea. You don't need to be “a maker.” You need to show up and be willing to be bad at something for a while.
If you already know you want this, ask about the NBRC Changemakers cohort — a structured workforce and entrepreneurship program, primarily for ages 14 to 18, with mentorship, microcredentials and real work experience.
Six ways to be useful.
We have a second group of people we serve, almost by accident: volunteers, mentors and retired folks with a lifetime of knowledge and nowhere to put it. CES is somewhere to put it.
Join the board.
CES is growing faster than a volunteer board of six can comfortably cover. We're interested in people who bring governance experience, financial or legal expertise, real-estate and development knowledge, fundraising reach, or lived experience of the barriers our young people face.
It's a working board, not a decorative one. Expect to be asked for something specific.
Honestly, just come in.
It's easier to understand this place standing in it than reading about it. Come to the store, walk the makerspace, see the campus on Whittier Road. Thursdays and Fridays are the liveliest.
Funders, press, teachers, parents, skeptics — all welcome. Especially skeptics; we started with a lot of those.
Can't give time? Give $250.
That's one young person, one season — materials, mentorship and a place in the program.