City Fabrick

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Organization Description

City Fabrick is a nonprofit design studio dedicated to enhancing communities through collaborative public interest design, planning and policy development.

Based in Long Beach, City Fabrick engages with existing communities willing to explore change as ideal laboratories for creating innovative examples of how to repurpose, retrofit and develop sustainable cities. By leveraging the prototyping, piloting and experimentation.

 City Fabrick collaborates with other purpose-driven organizations to fast-track these communities for invention and best practices. City Fabrick adapts to working in a diversity of environments, filling a variety of roles and providing a broad spectrum of expertise – based what best serves those partnerships, programs and projects. As a consultant, the organization provides professional services to other nonprofit organizations, government agencies and private entities dedicated on projects that serve the public good.

City Fabrick plans, designs and implements projects spanning open space, mobility, land-use, housing and cultural development with concepts that are both site-specific and globally relevant. City Fabrick prepares research studies, formulates policies, develops communication resources and implements designs that proactively engage and empower professionals, officials, community leaders and the public on a broad range of topics related to urban planning, policy and design.

Program Information

Design (Graphic, Urban, Architectural, Interior, or Landscape), Research, Writing, Community Organizing, Data Analysis, Presentations, Walk Audits (walking around the neighborhood and assessing walkability), Marketing, In-Person Surveying

Health & Safety

N/A

In-person engagement with community members will involve training to deal with community members who are unstable or are verbally or physically violent.

Low-income communities BIPOC communities

Our office currently operates in a hybrid model, meaning that most supervision on work will be done virtually, communicated via email or a messaging software. Each student will have a direct supervisor that they will be able to report to. Less frequent in-person engagement will take place will at least one supervisor on-site to ensure safety and direction.
Additional requirements and/or considerations
  • Computer Literacy
  • Must be 18 or older
  • Vaccinations
Address 
425 E. 4th Street Unit E
LONG BEACH, CA 90802
United States
General Phone 
(818) 635-5769
Website:
http://www.cityfabrick.org

Current Opportunities

Title Program Start Date Location Type
City Fabrick Service Learning Ongoing Hybrid (combination of on-site and remote)
City Fabrick/Walk Long Beach Service Learning Ongoing
GEOG 482/582 Geographic Information System Service Learning Ongoing
View all opportunities here
Program(s) 
Service Learning
Organization type 
Human, Social, or Employment Services (Nonprofit)
Focus Population(s)
Non-specific/any population
Focus Area(s)
Arts, Culture, and Humanities, Civic Engagement, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Social Justice, Education, Emergency Services & Public Safety, Health & Medicine, Natural Resources, the Environment, and Ecosystems
Hours of operation 

9 AM - 6 PM, M-F (sometimes community engagement events on Saturday/Sunday)

Minimum required hours 
45
Maximum students 
5