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Deconstruct 


Deconstruction is an alternative way to take down buildings. Adults and youth learn real world construction skills, as well as emerging deconstruction technology and LEED certification protocols, while working side-by-side with trade professionals.


NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY – Just a willing soul, ready to learn!


If you are interested in volunteering or scheduling a group to participate in a DeConstruct project, please contact Robb Sommerfeld, Executive Director, at (970) 420-7943 or use our contact form to email us.

Release Waiver: All participants must sign and return a release waiver prior to participation. Download Release Waiver (PDF, 106 KB). 



​​NPO Development 


​The NPO Development Program helps people develop and implement funded educational projects and programs and grow them into new nonprofit organizations. 


If you have an idea for transforming a community need into hands-on action, NCC can help you. Sometimes the only thing preventing a big idea from growing is a place to nurture it. NCC provides the organizational capacity to cultivate your vision and craft a solution.


Collaborations: Helping individuals and for-profit education and economic development businesses grow and extend their programs through partnering, project management, fundraising, and marketing.


For example, the Rocky Mountain Workshops


Fiscal Sponsorships: Helping aspiring non-profits grow their programs within NCC until they are ready to take the next steps in creating a new organization to carry out their mission and vision. 


Creating New Non-Profits: 

NCC’s Pine Ridge Project resulted in the establishment of the WMCS whose mission is to preserve and protect the history, culture, language, practices and traditions of, and to educate the general public regarding the Lakota Sioux people.

For more information please contact: Neil Kaufman at (970) 215-4587 or Neil@NCCraftsmanship.org 



ReConstruct 


​Drawing on the knowledge base of highly skilled trades and crafts people in the greater Fort Collins area, NCC’s ReConstruct Program teaches youth and adults construction trades in applied settings.


During these intensive projects, students work alongside trades and crafts people who have a desire to teach the next generation the skills to be successful in the construction and related industries.


Students are also be exposed to emerging green building technologies and LEED® certification protocols.


NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY – Just a willing soul, ready to learn! If you are interested in volunteering or scheduling a group to participate in a DeConstruct project, please contact Robb Sommerfeld, Executive Director, at (970) 420-7943 or use our contact form to email us.


Release Waiver: All participants must sign and return a release waiver prior to participation. Download Release Waiver (PDF, 106 KB).


If you are someone looking to do a remodel, and would like to support our mission, please contact us to set up a meeting! 



​Education Regeneration 


​​The primary goal of this program is to divert commercial wood waste from Front Range landfills to vocational students to enhance their skills, reduce financial strain, and increase their ability to obtain careers in related fields.


One of the objectives is to provide education around reuse and recycling technology and economics to these CTE program participants. This is accomplished through partnering with local manufacturing businesses within the northern Front Range. 


NCC has engaged with commercial manufacturers and producers to provide clean hardwood and other lumber material scrap to meet the consistent demand in the existing market segment of school district CTE programs.


By partnering with local school district Career Technology Education (CTE) programs, administrators, and educators, students are provided the opportunity to design, manufacture, and build their own products in their classrooms.