We’re excited to share that CUP has been selected to receive a $2 million gift as an awardee of the <a href="https://www.leverforchange.org/learning/news/yield-giving-expands-award-amount/">Yield Giving Open Call</a>.
This is the single-largest gift in the history of our organization, and a pivotal moment for our team and everyone who has made CUP the organization it is today.
Since CUP began, we’ve worked to make critical information about the policies and systems that make up this city accessible to the people and communities most impacted by them. We believe that accessible, supportive information is critical for protecting human rights, supporting individual and collective agency, and transforming systems of oppression.
This gift marks a unique opportunity for us to deepen our partnerships with the incredible community of organizers, advocates, schools, students, artists, and designers that we work with. Everyone we work with motivates us everyday to become more thoughtful, resilient partners in our shared work to create systems that truly serve a just future, hold decision-makers accountable, and build the power of our communities.
Yield Giving is named after a belief in adding value by giving up control through unrestricted gifts for organizations to use as they see fit. This spring and summer, we will take time as a team to imagine how we’ll distribute the impact of this contribution—evolving the breadth and versatility of our programs, building our capacity as partners, and creating financial resilience—to support many more years of collaboration in the name of a more just and equitable city.
We’re grateful to share this moment with everyone who has built this organization through their collaboration, vision, financial resources, community, and belief in CUP’s work.
About Yield Giving Established by MacKenzie Scott to share a financial fortune created through the effort of countless people, Yield Giving is named after a belief in adding value by giving up control. To date, Yield’s network of staff and advisors has yielded over $16,500,000,000 to 1,900+ non-profit teams to use as they see fit for the benefit of others. To learn more, visit <a href="http://www.yieldgiving.com">www.yieldgiving.com</a>.
About the Yield Giving Open Call In March 2023, Yield Giving launched an Open Call for community-led, community-focused organizations whose explicit purpose is to enable individuals and families to achieve substantive improvement in their well-being through foundational resources. The Open Call received 6,353 applications and initially planned for 250 awards of $1 million each. In the Fall of 2023, organizations top-rated by their peers advanced to a second round of review by an external Evaluation Panel recruited for experience relevant to this cause, and underwent a final round of due diligence. In light of the incredible work of these organizations, as judged by their peers and external panelists, the donor team decided to expand the awardee pool and the award amount.
About Lever for Change Lever for Change connects donors with bold solutions to the world’s biggest problems—including issues like racial inequity, gender inequality, lack of access to economic opportunity, and climate change. Using an inclusive, equitable model and due diligence process, Lever for Change creates customized challenges and other tailored funding opportunities. Top-ranked teams and challenge finalists become members of the Bold Solutions Network—a growing global network that helps secure additional funding, amplify members’ impact, and accelerate social change. Founded in 2019 as a nonprofit affiliate of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Lever for Change has influenced over $1.7 billion in grants to date and provided support to more than 145 organizations. To learn more, visit <a href="http://www.leverforchange.org">www.leverforchange.org</a>.

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The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and art to increase meaningful civic engagement in partnership with historically marginalized communities.

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CUP uses the power of design and art to increase meaningful civic engagement, in partnership with historically marginalized communities.

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