If You Can Make It Here...

Urban Investigations

If You Can Make It Here...

Bottled Up

City Studies

Bottled Up

$ Breakdown

Urban Investigations

$ Breakdown

What is asylum?

Making Policy Public

What is asylum?

Happy Meals?

City Studies

Happy Meals?

News

news

Check out this amazing look inside the Participatory Budgeting (PB) process from Bill Moyers. CUP helped to create outreach and voting materials for PB in NYC and is excited to be a part of next year’s expanded PB process.  To see the projects that were selected ... more

news

CUP’s Making Policy Public project on street vendor rights was featured in designer and author Andrew Shea’s new book, “Designing for Social Change.”

news

Are YOU ready to decide how to spend millions of taxpayer dollars? Voting is now underway for Participatory Budgeting in NYC! Anyone 18 or older who lives in one of the participating districts can help decide how to spend millions of dollars on community projects – and ... more
  • Visit pbnyc.org for more info about how to vote and what’s on the ballot.

launch event, news

Thursday, November 10, 2011 12PM

On November 10, CUP presented our Urban Investigation “Power Trip” to a buzzing group of Queens high schoolers. The project —a collaboration between CUP, CUP teaching artist Samantha Contis, and students from Aviation High School— asked “where ... more
  • Queens Public Library, Broadway Branch
    40-20 Broadway
    Long Island City, NY

news, award

Thursday, August 11, 2011 10AM

The Rockefeller Foundation has selected CUP as one of the recipients of this year’s Cultural Innovation Fund Grants! The grant will allow CUP to develop a new program that helps communitiy organizations access design services to demystify complex policy and planning ... more

news, award

Monday, June 28, 2010 12PM

CUP’s What Is Affordable Housing? guidebook was recently selected by AIGA, a professional association for graphic designers, for its “50 Books/50 Covers of 2009,” a traveling exhibition that honors outstanding book and cover design.

Pay Up!

City Studies

Pay Up!

Pass It On!

Making Policy Public

Pass It On!

Education Rights for Families

Technical Assistance

Education Rights for Families

Making Change

City Studies

Making Change

Rent Regulation Rights

Making Policy Public

Rent Regulation Rights

Soda Census

City Studies

Soda Census

Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Engage to Change

What's On Your Plate?

City Studies

What's On Your Plate?