Today, together with U.S. PIRG, we’re launching the Community Repair Hub: one central place to find free repair events near you.

We didn’t build this from scratch. The Hub runs on software made by The Restart Project, the team behind the global Restart Party and Repair Café network. Without them, there’s no Hub. Our partners at U.S. PIRG and Fixit Clinic did the on-the-ground work, finding and welcoming hundreds of repair groups across the country.

The Hub isn’t here to replace the local networks organizers have spent years building. It’s here to make that work easier to find.

iFixit hosts a Repair Café for local community members to bring in their broken stuff.

Don’t see a repair event near you yet? More groups are signing up, so check back as the calendar fills in.

The Hub’s event listings, where you can find repair events near you and RSVP.

How to list your events on iFixit

If you run a Repair Café or Fixit Clinic, or you’re thinking about starting one, the Hub is free to use. Register your group, add your upcoming events, and they show up for anyone looking for repair help in your area. The Boulder U-Fix-It Clinic in Colorado, for example, posted its entire 2026 calendar to the Hub at once, so people there can plan months ahead.

Listing your events also puts you in touch with other organizers around the country. It also helps you keep track of things your group has fixed, with stats including net carbon savings from repairs. 

We’re also providing event insurance

One of the biggest obstacles to running a repair event isn’t tools or volunteers. It’s liability insurance. Libraries, churches, schools, and community centers often require proof of coverage before they’ll let a group use their space, and for small, volunteer-run groups, getting that coverage can be expensive, confusing, or out of reach. Without it, a venue can fall through.

We’ve covered our local Repair Cafés for years, and now we’re opening up that coverage to events everywhere in the United States. By listing your event on the Community Repair Hub, your event insurance is tied to iFixit’s policy. To qualify, your group needs to be a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in the US, each event needs to be listed on the Hub, and attendees need to sign a waiver.

Here’s how it works. We extend iFixit’s existing general liability coverage to your event. If needed, we’ll issue a Certificate of Insurance for it at no cost to you.

To be clear about what it is: this is general liability coverage for the event itself, which is what venues mean when they ask for proof of insurance. It’s not a warranty on the repairs your volunteers do, and it doesn’t guarantee any particular item gets fixed. 

To get started:

1. Register your group and your event on the Community Repair Hub.
2. Make sure your event is located in the United States.
3. Email the following details to community@ifixit.com:
   • Event Name/Title
   • Care of (Event Organizer)
   • Event Location (full address)
   • Event Date and Hours

If your venue needs to be named on the certificate, just let us know and we can add them.

Once we receive this information, we’ll process your certificate. We do our best to get these back within 5 business days, but with the influx of requests that can take longer, so keep that in mind when requesting coverage.

We’ve already issued certificates for groups like the Takoma Park Fixit Clinic, which runs free monthly clinics out of its local Maryland public library, the Westside Repair Café in Santa Monica, which rotates between venues and gets a certificate matched to each location, and Repair Café SFV in California’s San Fernando Valley.

If you have any questions, email us at community@ifixit.com.

Our dream: regular events in every community

Two iFixit staff help a community member fix their power station.

Fixing things can be intimidating. Lots of people have never worked with high voltage. Opening your phone can be scary! It’s a lot easier when you have someone who’s done it before who can lend a hand or point you in the right direction.

All events listed on the Community Repair Hub are available via API, and these events are already listed on PIRG’s website. We’ll be sharing the calendar with the global repair community, and look forward to helping coordinate International Repair Day in October. 

Fixing things is fun, great for your wallet, and pretty good for the planet too. The default should be fixing our stuff, not ditching it and buying new stuff that didn’t need to be made again. Let’s make that happen!

We’ll see you around the neighborhood.