20 minutes
Bring a dish, stack a chair
Come to a potluck. Carry something heavy. Introduce yourself to one person. This is genuinely most of it.
Participate
Twenty minutes counts
There is no minimum. Twenty minutes counts. Pick the size of yes that fits your season of life.
2 hours / month
Join a crew
Welcome walks, repair café fixers, green crew, event setup. Crews have rotas, so nobody is the person who always does it.
4 hours / month
Sit on a committee
Streets & Safety, Events, Newsletter, Tool Library, Archive. Committees propose, the board ratifies, the minutes remember.
A season
Host or chair something
Porchfest block captain, soup night host, committee chair. The Commons hands you a binder, a budget line, and backup.
Open roles right now
Crews have rotas and committees have charters, so saying yes to one thing never quietly becomes everything.
Porchfest block captain
6 neededTwo hours on festival Saturday: a clipboard, a map, and the best seat on the street.
Repair café fixer
OngoingLamps, hems, wobbly chairs, stuck zippers. Teach while you fix — that’s the whole café.
Welcome committee walker
3 neededKnock on a new neighbor’s door with the welcome envelope and the good map of the district.
Tool librarian (Saturday rota)
2 neededCheck tools out, check tools in, tell people the pressure washer story.
Archive digitization crew
Winter projectScan fifty years of photos and minutes before the basement humidity does what basement humidity does.
Raise a hand
Tell the secretary which role fits and a crew lead will be in touch before the next event. No interview, no onboarding deck — this is a neighborhood, not a job.