Fab Foundation
About
The Fab Foundation is a US nonprofit that supports the worldwide network of fab labs, community workshops built around shared digital fabrication tools and processes. Its mission is to give people access to the tools, knowledge and financial means to educate, innovate and invent so that anyone can make almost anything. Community organizations, educational institutions and other nonprofits are its main beneficiaries, and it works with governments and companies around the world to bridge the digital divide.
The foundation grew out of the Fab Lab program at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms and was formed to support new fab labs and regional organizations. It helps deploy, install and train staff for labs, runs the Fab Academy, a distributed technical education program that uses fab labs as classrooms, and develops curriculum and teacher training through SCOPES-DF. It also gathers impact data and convenes the global fab lab community.
What to Know
- The Fab Foundation was formed in 2009 and is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
- More than 3,000 fab labs have been started in about 160 countries.
- It organizes the annual international Fab conference, with the 2026 event held in Boston.
- The SCOPES-DF site hosts more than 250 community-contributed, standards-aligned lesson plans.
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