
Our mission is to support positive youth development through the building and use of boats.

Urban Boatbuilders is a youth service agency that uses wooden boatbuilding as a means to support positive youth development, academic achievement, and the development of a variety of hard and soft skills that help young people find and keep jobs. We work with at-risk young people in schools, after school, and in correctional settings.

Help Us Stay Afloat! UBB has more programs than ever before, but to keep our programs going we must raise $20,000 by the end of the year. Please Help! Any contribution is welcome, we hope you'll give generously and encourage someone you know to donate as well so Urban Boatbuilders can cross this critical hurdle and keep serving kids.
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Wednesday Night Open Shop
On Wednesdays nights volunteers help prepare material and parts for building projects. Our volunteers learn the fine points of traditional wooden boat construction while helping make our youth building projects possible.