Community Chapter Leader Main Goal: 

Enable people with disabilities and disability professionals to receive assistive devices built by community volunteers.
*the time commitment for this role can range from 5 – 15 hours per month, depending on your availability and involvement.

Various activities can be led to meet this goal, which may include:

• Support local disability organizations, disability support/peer groups, or other individuals with disabilities in learning about Open AT devices and the ability to make and request them
• Support local makers building  requested devices from your community 
• Host presentations, and conduct outreach in your community to raise awareness of Makers Making Change 
• Help organize “buildathon” events if necessary to have a number of volunteers come together to build a number of devices from the library

• Work to create partnerships with maker groups, disability organizations, and corporate partners in your community 
• Engage with local makers, disability professionals, students and potential members on ways MMC can help support them 
• Distributing marketing materials to potential partners  
• Work with MMC team to document deliveries of devices  

We will support you with:  

• Network of other chapters across North America to share resources, best practices and lessons learned  
• Training: background info on Neil Squire and Makers Making Change  
• Co-advertising of any events 
• Event Planning: we provide an events toolkit package that includes presentations, press releases, media release forms, videos, pamphlets, postcards etc.  
• Template emails and resources for partnership building,   
• Sponsorship and grant writing

Application for Community Chapter Leader

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Chapter Highlights:

• Fort St. John, BC chapter led by students, teachers, and principals.
• Toronto, ON chapter led by Jordana, an occupational therapist.
• New York City, NY chapter led by Loreto, an occupational therapist, and Farrukh, a professor of computer science.
• Winchester, VA chapter led Ryan, president of a makerspace.
• Gainesville, FL chapter led by robotics students and coach Leigh Anne.

See the map of all Makers Making Change chapters.