Making Community Thrive

The Warsinsky Family checks out the Free Little Library, right next to the new Free Little Pantry in the Rotary Centennial Park.

Tasha Werry, BB2C Executive Director

Some partnerships are just meant to be, like the one that popped up between the BB2C Makerspace and the Marietta Noon Rotary. When you want something creative, sturdy, and useful, that can help the community and provide a service to families, there’s no better place to begin than with the creative and useful folks found in the Makerspace! (I might be biased, though). 

Noon Rotary had the idea to create a Little Free Library and set it in the Rotary Centennial Park. The idea quickly grew to include a Little Free Pantry alongside the library. With the idea solid and a vision of what it could look like, the Makerspace then took the vision and brought it to life. With a few more fortifications planned and additional accessible features to be added, the Library and Pantry are open and providing a service. 

We invite you to take a book and leave a book from the library and to take items and leave items in the pantry. You can’t miss them as they stand large and blue against the backdrop of the Putnam Street Bridge alongside the Muskingum River. When you see them, I hope you think of the impact of creative partnerships and ways in which you too can use your network for good, no matter how small the effort. All of the little things add up, even the Little Free things!

Interested in exploring what the BB2C Makerspace can do and brainstorming ideas together? Visit makestuff.space or email us at makerspace@bb2careers.org.