Surdna Foundation 2014 Annual Report
2014 Approved Grants > Thriving Cultures
Thriving Cultures

Thriving Cultures Grants Descriptions

The University of Texas at Austin Center for Sustainable Development

Austin, TX | $70,000

To create the Austin Mobile Community Design Hub to foster community engagement in the city's lower income neighborhoods, and to support a plan for how to diversify leadership in community engaged design.

Category: Community Engaged Design

Tucson Meet Yourself, Inc.

Tucson, AZ | $75,000 (24 months)

To support the Borderlands Folk Arts and Culture Network, aimed at strengthening the work of tradition-bearers in the Southwest region.

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change

Tulane City Center

New Orleans, LA | $48,000 (24 months)

To provide capacity building resources, and targeted support for the new Director of Community Outreach, who will serve as the chief community liaison and coordinator of staff community outreach efforts across projects and partners. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Sustainable Environments and Strong Local Economies Programs.

Category: Community Engaged Design

Tulane City Center

New Orleans, LA | $240,000 (24 months)

To support projects that prioritize community needs, desires and values in the planning & implementation processes, and support the development of long-term partnerships with public agencies to ensure community voices shape revitalization policies in New Orleans.

Category: Community Engaged Design

UBW, Inc.

Brooklyn, NY | $405,000 (36 months)

General operating support for Urban Bush Women's dance and community engagement work, as well as targeted support for its New Orleans-based Summer Leadership Institute.

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change

University of Connecticut Foundation, Inc.

Storrs, CT | $100,000 (24 months)

To create a model of green infrastructure implementation that incorporates public education, civic engagement, community building, youth involvement, and artful design and place-making into stormwater management efforts. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Sustainable Environments Program.

Category: Community Engaged Design

University of Detroit Mercy Detroit Collaborative Design Center

Detroit, MI | $15,000 (3 months)

To support the Association for Community Design National Conference in Detroit, which will build a collaborative working conversation that strives to connect local civic engagement and community design projects to build regional and national systems.

Category: Community Engaged Design

University of Detroit Mercy Detroit Collaborative Design Center

Detroit, MI | $150,000 (24 months)

Continued support for the Detroit Collaborative Design Center's work in catalyzing revitalization in Detroit's North Central District through community-based design projects and relationships with emerging organizations focused on community engaged design

Category: Community Engaged Design

University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning

Albuquerque, NM | $200,000 (24 months)

To support the Indigenous Planning and Design Institute (iP+Di) program development and design and planning work among Indigenous communities in the Southwest.

Category: Community Engaged Design

University System of Maryland Foundation

Adelphi, MD | $95,882 (10 months)

To support planning for the design, build, and implementation of an online interface for Liz Lerman's 'toolbox' of artistic practices in community-engaged projects.

Category: Community Engaged Design