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Let Us Build Cully Park! Eco-District Approach to Community Rebuilding

Residents of NE Portland are taking an "eco-district" approach to community rebuilding that centers on creating environmental wealth through social enterprise, outreach and advocacy. The most recent project is Let Us Build Cully Park! Working with 15 community based organizations, Verde, a Surdna grantee supported by all three program areas, established the Let Us Build Cully Park! Coalition. This compelling video shows how this low-income community is building assets of all kinds through a model that we hope can be replicated in communities throughout the country.

Let Us Build Cully Park! Community Garden from PrettyGoodProductions on Vimeo.

 

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Grantee Spotlight: Design Corps and Tulane City Center

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Design Corps supports the vital role that design can play in addressing critical issues and needs of communities. Through the Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) initiative, Design Corps provides communities, institutions and design professionals with the tools and services they need to integrate community-engaged processes into design activities, leading to projects that reflect a community's values and cultural identities. Public inclusion as a "best practice" in design is increasingly recognized as a highly effective way to sustain the health and longevity of a place or a community.

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Let Us Build Cully Park! Eco-District Approach to Community Rebuilding

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Findings Released from 2010 SNAAP Survey of 13,500 Arts Alumnioject Registration and Findings from 2010 SNAAP Survey

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Surdna Arts Teachers Fellowship 2012 Applications Now Available

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