Your School, Your Choice!

Making Policy Public

Your School, Your Choice!

Making the Grade

Urban Investigations

Making the Grade

En El Campo De Los Impuestos

Making Policy Public

En El Campo De Los Impuestos

Keep Your Family's Home

Public Access Design

Keep Your Family's Home

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Making Policy Public

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Engage to Change

CUP is now accepting applications for Public Access Design!

CUP is now accepting applications for Public Access Design!

We’re looking for community and advocacy organizations who are working to address policy issues where the difficulty of understanding the issues is leading to social injustice. Together, we’ll collaborate with designers to break down complex problems into an accessible, culturally appropriate visual tool that you can share with the communities you work with.

Public Access Design projects are intensive 4 to 6-month collaborations with CUP, a designer, and an NYC-based community organization. Collaborations result in a pocket-sized guide that breaks down and demystifies a complex social justice issue. Projects are concise in scope and often cover urgent topics. Organizations will receive 1,000 free copies of the project.

We’re looking for organizations who work directly with the people impacted by the issue and who can directly distribute the completed booklet or poster to those people. Applicants should be interested in engaging in a collaborative design process and, most importantly, should be interested in explaining an aspect of public policy! 
We define public policy broadly proposed projects can address: 

• policies (like like the right to safe housing in prison for TGNCNB individuals)

• systems (like navigating the various housing vouchers), or

• processes (like getting your stuff back after and arrest)

Applications are due by Monday, April 4 at 11:59pm EST.

Ready to Apply? Click here to start your application.

Questions? Click here to watch our webinar.

The Good, Bad, & Unknown

Urban Investigations

The Good, Bad, & Unknown

Your Guide to Welfare in NYC

Making Policy Public

Your Guide to Welfare in NYC

Step Right Up

City Studies

Step Right Up

ICEbreaker

City Studies

ICEbreaker

Power Trip

Urban Investigations

Power Trip

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Public Access Design

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

What the Cell?

Urban Investigations

What the Cell?