Ready, Set, Apply!

Technical Assistance

Ready, Set, Apply!

Show Me the Money!

City Studies

Show Me the Money!

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Draw the line!

Technical Assistance

Draw the line!

Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Engage to Change

Pinned Down? Rise Up!

Making Policy Public

Pinned Down? Rise Up!

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!

Making the Grade

Urban Investigations

Making the Grade

I Heart East New York

Urban Investigations

I Heart East New York

Block Party

City Studies

Block Party

Happy Meals?

City Studies

Happy Meals?

Shelter Skelter

Urban Investigations

Shelter Skelter

Bottled Up

City Studies

Bottled Up

Share, Where?

Urban Investigations

Share, Where?

Is Your Neighborhood Getting Too Expensive?

Technical Assistance