The Design Innovation network of makerspaces has the capacity to quickly react to the local and critical need for PPE on the ground in our communities. Their hope is to continue to build on this capacity to prototype, print, cut and produce much more in the future. Local healthcare and first responders have shared that local entities have a disadvantage in that when they run out of PPE, they must float their need up to the county, the state, and eventually to the federal level depending on availability, which can be a time-consuming and onerous process. By supplying the local entities with more PPE than may be needed, it is easier and quicker to distribute those supplies “upward” than it is to wait for the trickle down of supplies from the top levels of government.