Waterside Workshops
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News Flash! Street Level Cycles has new hours! COMMUNITY OPEN SHOP takes place FRIDAYs, SATURDAYs, and SUNDAYs 12-6pm. Street Level is no longer be open to the general public on Tuesday and Thursday! Youth Programs: Youth programming takes place throughout the week and is scheduled on an individual basis. Please call our office for more information. 510-644-2577 Also, hot off the presses is our 2011 Newsletter! Click here to see what we have been up to this year!   Waterside Workshops is a nonprofit organization that provides recreation opportunities, classes, and job-training for local youth while offering services to the community including a bicycle shop and repair facility, a full service wooden boat building shop , and Berkeley's only waterfront coffee shop, so come by and check us out! Click here for our HOURS OF OPERATION. |
MISSION
Waterside Workshops employs vocational education as a method of promoting youth development, encouraging sustainable and healthy lifestyles, and cultivating positive change in the Bay Area community.
Waterside Workshops served over 250 youth in 2011. Over 80% were low-income and 45% of those youth were living below the poverty line. Donations from our community play a major role in supporting our free programs for low-income youth, please visit our Funding Waterside page for more information.
Vocational skills and job training are vitally important to older youth who will soon be entering the job market. Above and below, our older interns show off their new skills. Many of these young people are hired at Waterside, or placed in jobs with local businesses.
Younger interns attend our daily after school program to get a head start on valuable handcrafts and skills. Below, the construction of a Norwegian Pram begins.
Youth in our boat building program have the opportunity to go on-the-water to explore boat design, learn about local ecology, and pick up trash from the shoreline. We are committed to teaching young people about the ecology of Aquatic park in hopes of fostering the next generation of stewards who will help to protect it.
Please click here for more information on our bicycle mechanics and boat building programs!
Generous donations from community members play a major role in allowing our organization to provide free services to youth and people in need. To donate, please click the link below or visit our Donations page.
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