Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

What's in the Water?

Making Policy Public

What's in the Water?

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Making Policy Public

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Food Stamped

City Studies

Food Stamped

Power Trip

Urban Investigations

Power Trip

Making the Grade

Urban Investigations

Making the Grade

Students Spring into New Investigations!

Students Spring into New Investigations!

In the past several weeks, CUP launched two Urban Investigations with students to explore social justice issues impacting New Yorkers.

CUP and Teaching Artist Hugo Rojas are collaborating with students from the Bronx School for Law, Government, and Justice to investigate parole and its impact on New Yorkers. What’s the difference between parole and probation? How many people are impacted by these systems and how could things be different? 

Over the next several weeks students will interview directly involved individuals, elected officials, public defenders, people working in the system, and members of their communities. Through collaborative filmmaking techniques, students will explore the issue and record what they learn to produce a video documentary. Stay tuned for more updates!

CUP and Teaching Artist Chaparro are collaborating with students from the High School for Climate Justice to explore the issue of flooding streets and subways. Why do NYC streets and subways stations flood?  How do these floods impact New Yorkers? How can we work towards a greener future? 

To explore this issue, students will interview stakeholders and members of their community, engage in collaborative artmaking, and create a final printed project that explains what they learned. Check out some images of students in action as they learned how to marble paper, make styrofoam prints, and map their neighborhood!

Pinned Down? Rise Up!

Making Policy Public

Pinned Down? Rise Up!

Show Up

Public Access Design

Show Up

Work Forced

Public Access Design

Work Forced

The Newtown Creek BOA

Technical Assistance

The Newtown Creek BOA

Sign Up!

Public Access Design

Sign Up!

Child Support?!

Making Policy Public

Child Support?!

Government in Plain Sight

City Studies

Government in Plain Sight

Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Engage to Change