03/27/2024
So proud of our Educational & Research Collaboratory, The Design Academy, for receiving the WDC 2024 and The City of San Diego Community-Driven Design Grant for advancing our work on Democratizing Design ! The Design Academy is part of the 17 incredible organizations and businesses that will receive a total of $550,000 in grant funding! A special shout out to our partners and the Democratizing Design team Michelle Morris, Michelle Woodhouse , Diana Robinson, Elysia Mac, Anuujin Tsedenbal, Thomas Htet, Sabrina Cheng, Lauren Ibarra, Summer Williams with support from Mai Thi Nguyen, James White, the Youth & Education Design-to-Action Network leads Jorge F Sanchez-Jofras & Joe Erpelding and WDC Impact program manager Olivia Gale.
This grant program is a partnership of WDC 2024 and the City of San Diego, and funding for the grant program is made possible by the City of San Diego.
Celebrate with us and the rest of the incredible grant recipients:
Casa Familiar
Insiteart
OurWorlds
The Design Academy, Inc
Art Produce
Blindspot Collective
California Lawyers for the Arts
Poetic Justice
Project Blank
San Diego Jazz Ventures
The Art of Jazz
The David’s Harp Foundation, Inc
Berry Good Food Foundation
Here & There/ Aquí y Allá
Outside the Lens
San Diego Craft Collective
San Diego Environmental Film Festival