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Predatory Equity

Making Policy Public

Predatory Equity

Welcome to Health Care!

Making Policy Public

Welcome to Health Care!

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Urban Investigations

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Not on Our Watch!

Making Policy Public

Not on Our Watch!

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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

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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.”

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Making Policy Public

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

It's Not Just in Our Heads

Urban Investigations

It's Not Just in Our Heads

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Urban Investigations

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Stand Clear of the Rising Fares

Urban Investigations

Stand Clear of the Rising Fares

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

Making Policy Public

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Making Policy Public

Figuring Out Health Insurance

What Up With DAT?

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Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights