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Alliance of Community Trainers

CSF Grantee
Can design increase civic engagement? The Alliance of Community Trainers works with communities to create a shared vision and to empower communities with tools for problem solving, conflict resolution, alternative technology, environmental sustainability and more.
  • Advocacy
  • Community Development
  • Conflict and Disaster
  • Environment
  • Resilience
  • Urban Strategies

Bethlehem Inn

CSF Grantee
How can designers address poverty in American cities? Bethlehem Inn provides shelter to individuals and families experiencing homelessness in Central Oregon. Recognizing the impact economic cycles and unexpected life events have on peoples’ livelihoods, especially those from the lower rung of society, Bethlehem Inn seeks to provide assistance to help people get back on their feet.
  • Community Development
  • Housing
  • Resilience

Blue Star Integrative Studio

CSF Grantee
How can design support community development? Blue Star Studio works with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to discover creative solutions to develop and protect their land.
  • Advocacy
  • Environment
  • Housing

Chautauqua Poets & Writers

CSF Grantee
Can community engagement be cultivated using artistic expression? The Chautauqua Poets & Writers features award-winning writers who bring the community together with their insights.
  • Community Development

Designing Justice + Designing Space

Podcast
CSF Grantee
How can designers challenge structural racism? Oakland-based Designing Justice + Designing Space (DJDS) is an architecture and real estate development non-profit that addresses America's structural racism, inequity and mass incarceration by integrating architecture and design with the philosophy of restorative justice.
  • Advocacy
  • Community Development
  • Resilience

Earth Activist Training

CSF Grantee
Can we design education for environmental sustainability? Author, activist and founder Starhawk offers Earth Activist Training in permaculture, nature awareness, earth based spirituality and more for individuals, teachers and community groups.
  • Community Development
  • Environment
  • Resilience
  • Urban Strategies

Means of Exchange (MOE)

CSF Grantee
How can we democratize currency? Means of Exchange is working on the reinvention of exchange currencies using local community currencies, shared resource platforms, crowdfunding and more.
  • Advocacy
  • Community Development

Mozambique Well Project

CSF Grantee
How can access to water revitalize communities? Mozambique Well Project in partnership with Maranatha Volunteers International drill wells to provide water to rural communities.
  • Healthcare

Myna Mahila Foundation

CSF Grantee
How can education be supported through design? Myna Mahila Foundation charges women to speak about menstruation and empowers them through education and micro-entrepreneurship.
  • Advocacy
  • Healthcare

Open Architecture Collaborative

CSF Grantee
Can design increase civic engagement? Open Architecture Collaborative works through participatory engagement and by fostering grassroots design coalitions to build power within underserved communities.
  • Advocacy
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Qigong Sensory Training Institute

CSF Grantee
What is the role of parent education in the healthcare of autistic children? Qigong Sensory Therapy is a revolutionary approach to treating autism developed by integrating Western and Chinese medicine.
  • Advocacy
  • Healthcare

YAYA Arts Centre

CSF Grantee
Can community engagement be cultivated using artistic expression? YAYA provides visual arts education, entrepreneurship training, and leadership skills to creative young people, empowering them to become successful adults. YAYA is an expansive creative community where young people have the freedom, opportunities, and resources to discover their artistic voices and passions.
  • Community Development

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  • "I’m grateful to be a vessel. To have a life that allows me to devote myself to giving space and form to my thoughts."  Artist, urbanist and #SocialDesignCircle #Honoree Theaster Gates
  • Our term for the week in the #SocialDesignDictionary series is Conflict This definition has been shared by Palestinian-American architect Rania Qawasma (@raniaqawasma), who focuses her work on social justice and equity for displaced and underserved people around the world. She associates the term Conflict with her Grandparents
  • Congratulations to Avni Sethi (@avnisethi), founder of #SocialDesignCircle #Honoree Conflictorium (@conflictorium) on receiving the 2020–2022 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics (@veralistcenter) at New York’s New School (@thenewschool)   An extract from the Jury Citation: "Deeply embedded in the surrounding communities of Ahmedabad, Conflictorium is opening up histories of individual and collective trauma and holding space for challenging and difficult conversations. The museum operates within a complicated political context and is an intellectual and ethical sanctuary in the region—particularly at a time when democracy and basic human rights, including religious freedoms, are
  • We are excited to share our latest initiative- A Dictionary of Social Design Each week, we will bring you a new term from the field of Social Design and its definition from a practitioner
  • Congratulations to Zulfiya Hamzaki (@zulfiyahamzaki), the talented filmmaker and archivist from our Mumbai based design studio, whose short film "Doori" (Distance) is being screened live today, October 8th at Bay Made Films (@baymadefilms) at 7PM PST, followed by a Q&A with the director herself! Doori is also being screened at the Silicon Valley Asian Pacific Film Festival (@svapfilmfest) till October 10th. You will find the RSVP and registration links to both the events on their respective Instagram profiles and websites. "I made this film when I had just arrived to the United States to start my MFA in Documentary Film
  • Curry Stone Design Prize winner Liter of Light (@literoflight) has been awarded the Asia Pacific Social Innovation and Partnership Award (APSIPA) for its “Light it Forward” campaign, that challenges people to hand-build solar lamps for donation to electricity-deprived communities while paying tribute to frontliners of the COVID-19 pandemic. Inspired by the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, the Light it Forward campaign gives Filipinos a chance to build solar lamps (swipe left to see @ria perform the challenge!) which takes less than 30 minutes, challenge their friends and family, and help communities living without electricity in the midst of this global health

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REQUESTS FOR FUNDING

We are struggling to comprehend the magnitude and horror during this period of Covid-19.

The deaths, the illnesses, millions unemployed, millions in quarantine, borders closed and the disruption of normalcy.

Curry Stone Foundation is receiving numerous unsolicited requests for support in light of this crisis. Many of these have significant merit, and we understand the need is great.

Prior the Pandemic, our budget for 2020 and 2021 was committed to projects still in process, in India and elsewhere. Now, as a direct result of the crisis, we anticipate that these will need supplemental funds to reach completion. As these projects impact fragile, marginalized populations, we need to reserve emergency funds for that purpose.

For these reasons, we will not be able to assist financially with any immediate requests for funds.

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