Get Involved

CUP projects are created in collaboration with many people.

Whether you want to work with CUP, hire CUP, or come to one of our events, find out how you can get involved here.

One of the very best ways to support CUP’s work is by making a donation.

CUP depends on individual contributions to make the creative, accessible, and informative teaching tools that you have come to expect, and that our partner organizations have come to rely on. Make a contribution to meaningful civic engagement today.

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Get a CUP Project

CUP works in partnership with community organizations, schools, and other groups who want to improve understanding of how the city works and to foster public participation in shaping it.

Community Education Projects

CUP can help your organization, agency, or nonprofit develop visually-based educational tools that break down complex policy and planning issues for a broad audience. CUP’s Technical Assistance projects bring together multi-disciplinary teams to collaboratively produce print publications, workshops, videos, online applications, and other tools that increase your organization’s capacity to organize and advocate around specific issues.

Our projects are custom-made for the organizations that will use them in their work. We’d love to meet with you to find out your specific goals and show you our work. Projects are funded through a combination of service fees and grants. With enough lead time, we can work with your organization to apply for technical assistance funds for a project.

To find out more about our projects, or how we might work with your organization, contact CUP at 718-596-7721 or info (at) welcometocup.org

If you’d like to use CUP’s existing tools and resources, check out our products here. If you’d like to apply to our next round of Making Policy Public, find out when the next round of applications will be accepted here or sign up for our email list.

Youth Education Projects

We can develop customized, project-based in-class, after-school, or professional development programs for your school or organization, from a single workshop to a full semester of programming. CUP projects bring together professional artists and designers with New York City public high school students to investigate fundamental questions about how the city works.

In CUP projects, students develop design, critical thinking, research, and technical skills while learning to see their built environment – and their role in it – in a different way. Students collaborate with a teaching artist and each other to break down one of the city’s many complex systems and to create a teaching tool that helps other people learn about it too! Students present their final projects in a public event, developing presentation skills as well as confidence in their own work.

Projects culminate in high-quality final products. Previous projects have been featured in art venues like PS1, Anthology Film Archives, and the Venice Biennale, and used as educational tools by organizations like the Lower East Side Ecology Center, Chhaya CDC, the Fifth Avenue Committee, and the NY Department of Environmental Protection.

All of our projects are custom-made, and we’d love to meet with you to discuss your specific goals and show you what we can do. If you’re interested in having CUP work with your school, class, or afterschool program, please get in touch at 718-596-7721 or info (at) welcometocup.org

Our Youth Education programs are funded through a combination of program fees and grants. With enough lead time, we can work with your organization to raise funds for programming together.

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CUP’s work is largely supported by the generous donations of individuals and foundations that care about the city and how it works. Every donation, from $5 to $50,000 helps us to keep producing the high-quality projects you have come to expect from CUP.

If you would like to support our work, donate now through the secure donation form below:

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To make a secure online donation, please use the form below and then proceed to a check-out through Paypal or Network for Good.

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DONATE WITH NETWORK FOR GOOD

CUP is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. All cash and in-kind contributions to CUP are tax-deductible and fully support our educational programming.

Current Supporters

CUP’s programs are made possible in part with public funds from:

National Endowment for the Arts
New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council
Council Member Vanessa Gibson
Council Member Ben Kallos
Council Member Brad Lander
Council Member Stephen Levin
Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito
Council Member Carlos Menchaca
Council Member Antonio Reynoso
Council Member Ritchie Torres

CUP is also supported by the generosity of:

Brooklyn Community Foundation
Capital One
David Rockefeller Fund
Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund
M&T Bank
Mertz Gilmore Foundation
Nathan Cummings Foundation
Neighborhoods First Funders Collaborative
New York Foundation
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Scherman Foundation
Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation
Surdna Foundation

Thank you!

CUP is extremely grateful to the following donors who supported our work in 2016.

Social Justice Allies

RAB Lighting, Cycle Architecture + Planning, Gray Foundation, Leslie Kogod & Laurie Goldberger, Christine Coletta & Matt Bockelman, TransitCenter, Chicago Title Insurance Company, LISC NYC, Jeremy Robinson Leon, David Smiley & Lauren Kogod, Willy Wong

Sustainers

Work-Order, BRP Companies, Hustvedt Cutler Architects, Ariel Fausto, Laura Hansen & Jim Stubbs, Aaron Koffman, Stuart Kogod & Denise Garone, Faizah Malik & Zaahir Syed, Sam Marks & Lauren Pesso, Jonathan Marvel, Hirschen Singer & Epstein, Sage and Coombe Architects, Thanh Tran, James Vance, Cloudred

Supporters

Roswitha & A.J. Agarwal, Dress Code, Alan & Judith Appelbaum, Deborah Berke Partners, Françoise Bollack Architects, Kenneth Caplan, Nathan Elbogen, Andrew Franz Architect PLLC, Fly’s Eye Films, Belmont Freeman, Guido Hartray, Hector urban design, planning & civic arts, Julie Hertzog & Gabrielle Esperdy, Tim Howell & Elizabeth Howell, Anisa Keith, Beom Jun Kim & Letícia Wouk Almino, Warren Leon, Ellen Lupton, Kathleen & Matthew Baldwin, Thomas L. McMahon, Thread Collective, Grace Robinson-Leo, DesBrisay & Smith Architects, Frederick Tang, Althea Wasow & Paul Beatty, Edelman Sultan Knox Wood, Asaf Yogev & Pawel Tzaczuk, Architecture Research Office, Tracy & Zachary Wydra

Contributors

Joshua Barnett, Hannah Bronfman, Alicia Cheng, Ashley Cruce & Joseph Heathcott, Martin Dunn, Sharon Haar, Margarett Jolly, Francis Lam, Jean Marks, Sandro Marpillero, Thomas Morbitzer & Goil Amornvivat, Michael Parent, Ken Shulman, Tim Tompkins, Kenneth Torrey, Aneesa Wahed, Lloyd Westerman, Maya Wiley, Nevah Assang, Hester Street Collaborative, Gregory Berman, Josh Breitbart, Nikki Chung, Keith Fitzpatrick, Alexandra Ortved, Claire Weisz, Jason Babbie, Tara Kelly, Barbara Hart, Irina Verona, Dan Wiley

Friends & Fans

Shana Agid, Daniel Alexander, Gabriella Amabile, Anand Amir, Beth & Mike Anderson, Jason Anderson, Lynn Appelbaum, Mercedes Armillas, Caron Atlas, Brett Bainbridge, Joan Bartolomeo, Aurelie Barbier, Francesca Batista, Andrew Belcher, Sarah Bendit, Jess Besack, Bethany Bingham, Jonathan Bogarin, Katherine Bradley, Elaine Braithwaite, Sarah Brennan, Kristine Bruch, Mary Bruch, Dan Campo, Stephen Chen, Deanne Cheuk, Terri Chiao, Michael Chico, Yeju Choi, Jeffrey Chusid, Matthew Clancy, Matthew Clarke, Johane Clermont, Charlotte Cohen, Deb & Ed Coletta, Anita Cooney, Scott Corey, Lizania Cruz, Alexandra Cuervo, Glen Cummings, Darby Curtis, Sarah Dadush, Suzanne Dance, Timothy David-Lang, Annie Decker, Marit Dewhurst, Ken Diamondstone, Neil Donnelly, Mary Dorn, Cyrus Dowlatshuhi, Susannah Drake, Frank Dubinsky, Danielle Epstein, Iben Falconer, Janet Fastabend & Mark Fastabend, Cassie Fennell, Brian Feeney, Fitzgerald & Halliday, Natalie Fizer, Cristian Fleming, Leah Flax, Sean Flynn & Claire Steichen, Glenn Forley, Julia Foulkes, Jennifer Gardner, Lisa Garrison, Matt Galek, Rosalie Genevro, Annemarie Gray, Alison Greenberg, Liz Greenstein, Kate Grossman, Lindsay Haddix, Tony Haftel & Janiece Haftel, Matthew Hart, Sarah Bloch Harvey, Jack Heaney, Michael Heimbinder & Daisy Deomampo, Adam Hellengers, Sam Holleran, Michael Hickey, Dylan House, Winthrop Hoyt, Kemi Ilesanmi, Karrie Jacobs, Patrick Jones, Leora Jontef, Charlotte Kahn, Matthew Kane, Olympia Kazi, Stephen Kennedy, Sina Khajeh-Najafi, Inbar Kishoni, Drew Kiriazides, Rajesh Kottamasu, Robert D. & Carol H. Krinsky, Prem Krishnamurthy, Karen Kubey, John Kudos, Jeff Lai, Matthew Lasner, Ben Levine, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Sarah Lidgus, Sara Lopergolo, Katie Lorah, Hester Lyons, Gia Machlin, Elizabeth MacWillie, Peter Madden, Ivanna Majic, Tamara Maletic, John Mangin, Annie Marks & Josh Roberts, Brian Matthew, John Medina, Erik Michielsen & Debbie Kim, Greg Mihalko, Karen Miller, Bob Milner, Nisha Mistry, Lize Mogel, Mariana Mogilevich, Valeria Mogilevich, Jacque Morris, Renda Morton, Marcie Muscat, Shehzad Nadeem, Kenneth Namkung, Elyse Newman & Ben Dolnick, Liz Oakley, Mark O’Brien, Liz Ogbu, Rosamund Palmer, Molly Park, Otis Pearsall & Nancy Pearsall, Johanna Pesso, Alison Popper, Louise Quayle, James Quinlivan, Hatuey Ramos-Fermin, Sherry & Nelson Rich, Anne Rieselbach, Martha Rosler, Tamar Rothenberg, Emily Rubenstein, Kate Rubin, Haley Rubinson, Anne Savarese, Christopher Seestedt, Doree Seligmann, Alice Shay, Andrew Shea, David Schleifer, Tal Schori, Olivia Schwob, Ron Shiffman, Ian Shrank, Lisa Silbermayr, Dani Simons & Sarah Charlop-Powers, Scott Simpson, Slater & Beckerman, Andrew Sloat, Paris Smith, Julie Stein, Kevin Stokes & Kathleen Stokes, Celina Su, Caitlin Sullivan, Carol Sun Lewis, Illya Szilak, Lacey Tauber, Becci Torrey, Bruce & Kathi Torrey, Karina Totah, Maureen Trantham, Lisa Trub, Shin-pei Tsay, Shantanu Vaid, Lawrence Vale, Nicole Vlado, Anusha Venkataraman, Benjamin Warnke, Alexandra Warren, Shawn Watts, Alexis Wheeler, Ansley Whipple, Lynnette Widder, June Williamson, John Willoughby, Elizabeth Wilson, Mabel Wilson, Robert Winn & Lourdes Rivera, Karen Wolny, Andrea Wong-Miller, Ricky Wong, Paul Woody, Christopher Worrall, Ruth Yarrow, Jess Zimbabwe, Anonymous (3)