Join the Rockwood
Tool Library!
Sign up today to become a borrower! Our tool library is 100% free to use. Our library catalogue allows you to check our inventory and see when things are due back.
Open to folks living in Gresham, Centennial, Fairview, Wood Village, Troutdale, and surrounding areas. Not sure if you're in our service area? email Librarian@rockwoodcommon.org
Photo ID and an additional piece of mail will be needed to verify
Proof of Identity in-person before you can begin borrowing.
Saturdays: 10am-1pm
The Rockwood Center | 17805 SE Stark St
2024 Tool Drive
Seed our community tool library with your tax-deductible donations of electric and manual tools. No gas tools!
Drop off Saturdays 10—1pm at The Rockwood Center
17805 SE Stark St during lending hours.
Drop off 9—9pm at Rockwood Market Hall
458 SE 185th Ave
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Our Mission
Rockwood Common is a resource sharing collective.
We strengthen neighborhood resilience through
free access to tools and skill development workshops.
What does
Neighborhood
Resilience
mean?
The capacity for individuals, families, and institutions to withstand challenges or recover quickly through mutual support.
How can we grow
together?
Share Skills
Develop skills and pass them on to benefit your neighbors & friends.
- Repair Fairs
- Mending Circle
- Skill Workshops
Share Things
Increase access to tools through common resource hubs.
- Tool Lending Library
- Maker Spaces
Share Spaces
Build common ground by gathering diverse neighbors around common interests, concerns & goals.
- Garden Spaces
- Community Nights
We Need Your Help
Take our short surveys to tell us what workshops, tools and other items we should add to our resource libraries!
Interested in Workshops?
Tell us what skills you would like to learn from your community.
Looking to Share Together?
Tell us what you would like to see in libraries, makerspaces, and other resource hubs.
Community Organization
We are developing a special library of things to help you advance your mission with shared resources.
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Our Projects
These are the most-needed resources we have identified for the Rockwood Community.
Tool Library
A lending library of shared tools, from power saws to screwdrivers to gardening, crafting, and masonry. This core project will provide access to a wide range of home improvement and hobby tools for enrichment and economic sovereignty within Rockwood.
Sign up for the Rockwood Tool Library→
Common Woodshop
A common space with table saws, routers, sanders and more for learning construction skills and building items for personal use or commercial sale. The Rockwood Common Woodshop will provide carpentry education and shared resources for neighbors of all ages.
Community Orchard
We are reimagining the community garden as a shared space to produce free food for each other. Instead of small private plots of land with limited access, imagine an entire garden for collaborative planting and harvesting, where anyone can enjoy the restorative practice of working with nature, or stop in to harvest herbs and berries to feed their family.
Workshops
Skill sharing is essential to stronger communities and neighborhood integrity. Please take our survey to tell us what you would like to learn and receive updates when your selections become available!
Woodworking
Learn basic wood joinery, finishing, and construction skills.
Gardening
Learn seed saving, garden planning, soil building and more.
Home Improvement
Build skills for repairing drywall, installing tile, replacing window screens, and more.
Hand Sewing Workshop
Learn basic hand stitches that can be used for simple projects or mending. Plus button repair, needle threading and more. Create a take home project with your new skills. Free. No experience required.
Sashiko Inspired Mending
We're excited to have teach how to beautifully mend clothing with functional embroidery. Bring something to repair or learn stitches on a piece of fabric to transfer the skills as needed.
Free. No experience required.
Our Board
Founders, friends, and neighbors.
Jason Naumann
Board President (he/him)
Jason has been a Rockwood resident since 2018. He brings eight years of experience with Green Lents Tool Library in SE Portland and 17 years of small business and communications experience. Jason is an enthusiastic woodworker and maker of things.
Jennifer Naumann
Board Administrative Officer (she/her)
Jennifer has been a Rockwood resident since 2018. Jennifer brings eight years of office management experience and a zeal for community building. Jennifer enjoys mending and altering clothes as well as gardening food and homeopathic plants.
Anthony Crosman
Board Trustee (he/him)
Anthony has been a Rockwood resident since 2022. Anthony brings two years experience in Rockwood Neighborhood Association as a Co-Land Use Chair as well as one year in Centennial Community Resilience Network Exec Team. Anthony also serves the community in local food pantries.
Annie Cozzie
Board Trustee (she/her)
Annie Cozzie is currently a stay at home mom of 2 who is passionate about seeing her community connect and build resilience together. Her background is in administrative and event planning work with a drug recovery house in Beaverton and concerts across the country.
Natanya Epstein
Board Trustee (she/her)
Natanya is an outdoor educator, ASL translator, mother of two, and lifelong Gresham resident. She is excited to bring opportunities for hands-on learning into the Rockwood community.
Joshua Newton
Board Treasurer (he/him)
Josh has been a Rockwood resident since 2015 and is a lifelong Oregonian. He brings 27 years of experience in the outdoor gear industry and an enthusiasm for finding solutions. Josh prefers to be outdoors, close to nature.
Donate
Your gifts are essential to growing our programs and providing more services to the community.
Donate Directly
We appreciate all of the support you can provide. Consider donating 1 hour of your wage each month to bring services and resources to the community.
Pay Nothing Donations
Community Rewards donates money to your favorite charity based on your spending. There is no cost to you, and your rewards points are not deducted.
Visit fredmeyer.com/i/community/community-rewards to learn more.
Talk to Us
Ask us anything, or tell us what you think about the projects we are planning.
Thank you for getting in touch!
We will respond as soon as we are available.
Rockwood Common is a registered Oregon Charitable Organization and a 501(c) 3 Non-Profit.
