Keep Your Family's Home

Public Access Design

Keep Your Family's Home

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Making Policy Public

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

If You Can Make It Here...

Urban Investigations

If You Can Make It Here...

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Field Guide to Federalism

City Studies

Field Guide to Federalism

Open Call for Advocates!

Open Call for Advocates!

Calling all advocates and organizers!

Collaborate with CUP on our next issues of Public Access Design!

We’re looking for community and advocacy organizations that are working to address policy issues that would benefit from a visual explanation, and where the lack of understanding of that issue is leading to social injustice. Together, we’ll collaborate with art and design professionals to break down complex problems into an accessible, culturally appropriate visual tool for your constituents.

Public Access Design (PAD) projects are short, intensive collaborations that result in a visual tool that meets a New York City-based advocate’s organizing needs as they arise. They are concise in scope, cover urgent topics, and take around 4-6 months to create, and our advocate partners will receive 1,000 free printed copies at the end!

We’re looking for groups who work directly with the constituency impacted by the issue and who can directly distribute the completed tool to that audience. Applicants should be interested in engaging in a collaborative design process and, most of all, interested in explaining an aspect of public policy! (We define public policy broadly – past topics include: how to avoid wage theft if you’re a domestic workerhow to get your stuff back after an arrest, and navigating the bail process). We welcome applications addressing issues related to COVID19. 

Applications are due by April 20th, 2020 at 5pm – click here to learn more!

Sign Up!

Public Access Design

Sign Up!

Dick & Rick: A Visual Primer for Social Impact Design

Technical Assistance

Dick & Rick: A Visual Primer for Social Impact Design

A Fair Chance

Making Policy Public

A Fair Chance

Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!

Common Cents

City Studies

Common Cents

Rent Regulation Rights

Making Policy Public

Rent Regulation Rights

Shelter Skelter

Urban Investigations

Shelter Skelter

Planning for your children's future

Technical Assistance

Planning for your children's future