Behrend Builders connects both skilled and unskilled volunteers to service-learning opportunities in the greater DC area. Behrend Builders works in low-income neighborhoods in DC to repair, renovate and rebuild low-income family homes, community centers, public schools, homeless shelters, parks and other vital community spaces. Click here for a list of our most current projects!

Volunteering with Behrend Builders is always an amazing learning experience. Behrend volunteers not only learn valuable construction skills like painting and basic carpentry, but also have the opportunity to explore and engage with social justice issues that the DC community struggles with everyday. Behrend Builders is committed to addressing these issues, which include hunger, homelessness, and poverty, not only through our direct-service projects but also by expanding awareness in our volunteer groups and also in our community at large.

Click here to learn how to get involved as an individual, group or, donor!

Please email the Behrend Builders Program Coordinator, Danny Obeler, with any questions, or call him at (202) 777-3245.

Our Partners:

Behrend Builders maintains a strong working relationship with a wide variety of non-profit agencies and organizations in the greater DC area. Find out more about the organizations we work with here. Behrend Builders also maintains a special relationship with ServeDC, the mayor's office on volunteerism.

Note: While Behrend Builders operates through the Washington DC Jewish Community Center, we welcome volunteers of all faiths and will never ask any volunteer to engage in religious practice of any kind.