Stand Up to Clean Up!

Public Access Design

Stand Up to Clean Up!

Dick & Rick: A Visual Primer for Social Impact Design

Technical Assistance

Dick & Rick: A Visual Primer for Social Impact Design

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Rent, Rights, and Repairs

Public Access Design

Rent, Rights, and Repairs

Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!

How Can I Improve My Park?

Making Policy Public

How Can I Improve My Park?

news

CUP is pleased to announce our Making Policy Public collaborations for 2015! We will work with four groups of inspiring designers and advocates to break down complex policy issues so that more people can be involved in the decision-making impacting their ... more

open call

Monday, January 12, 2015 5PM

CUP is seeking a spring intern to assist with several current projects, which may include:

open call

Thursday, January 8, 2015 11:21AM

Like many of our fellow New Yorkers, and Americans, we at CUP struggled with the news of the Michael Brown and Eric Garner grand jury decisions. Many of us joined in protests and in supporting the work of our partner organizations who continue to work to reform ... more

news

Friday, December 19, 2014 2:02PM

Help foster more meaningful civic engagement by making a contribution today! Click here.

open call

Monday, December 15, 2014 10AM

CUP is seeking a graphic design team or studio to collaborate in developing the third in our series of hands-on, popular education workshop tools. Each toolkit is made up of a soft-cover, illustrated guidebook; physical components that help convey information about workshop ... more

talk

Saturday, December 6, 2014 9AM

CUP’s Executive Director, Christine Gaspar, will be speaking on a panel for the 40th anniversary of the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. As part of the How to Make a Smart Museum series, the discussion will explore the way in which art can be ... more

news

Thursday, November 20, 2014 1:36PM

CUP is a partner in the project, Curb Your Litter: Greenpoint, that is a finalist to receive funding support from the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund. Want to see a CUP youth education project about garbage infrastructure in Greenpoint?

open call

Monday, November 17, 2014 10AM

CUP is seeking a full-time Program Director to manage our Youth Education programs. The Program Director will oversee our Urban Investigations and City Studies programs, as well as our professional development programs for educators, and development of curricula.  

open call

Monday, November 10, 2014 10AM

CUP is seeking a full-time Youth Education Program Assistant to provide general project and organizational support on our Youth Education programs.

open call

Monday, November 3, 2014 10AM

CUP is seeking a full-time Program Assistant to provide general project, organizational, and administrative support on our Youth Education and Community Education programs.

news

Tuesday, October 28, 2014 12:51PM

Last year, Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority asked CUP to show them how they could create their own version of our Urban Investigations program. This year, they launched Urban Matters with their first project in which local high school students ... more

open call

Monday, October 20, 2014 10AM

We’re looking for a teaching artist to lead an Urban Investigation project for high school students in the Spring of 2015.

What is asylum?

Making Policy Public

What is asylum?

Sign Up!

Public Access Design

Sign Up!

Your School, Your Choice!

Making Policy Public

Your School, Your Choice!

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Making Policy Public

Innocent Until Proven Risky

The Internet is Serious Business

Urban Investigations

The Internet is Serious Business

Happy Meals?

City Studies

Happy Meals?

Is Your Neighborhood Getting Too Expensive?

Technical Assistance

What Is Affordable Housing?

Envisioning Development

What Is Affordable Housing?