The Community Design Collaborative is pleased to announce its latest grants of preliminary design services. The Collaborative’s spring crop of service grants will build stronger neighborhoods through design—and lead to high-quality affordable housing, engaged youth, vibrant commercial corridors, and healthy families.

The Friends Housing Cooperative, in partnership with WCRP, will receive design services to guide renovations of its historic and affordable cooperative housing in East Poplar and Northern Liberties.

The Landsowne Boys and Girls Club was awarded a grant to investigate the replacement of a deteriorated park pavilion that is instrumental to operating its recreational and sports programs.

Manayunk Development Corporation will work with a volunteer design team to explore design strategies for the canal-side facades of several Main Street Manayunk businesses.

Puentes Salud (Bridges of Health) will receive design assistance to transform a vacant commercial space into an innovative community health and wellness center serving South Philadelphia’s Latino immigrant population.

Revelation Outreach Community Center, Inc. will work with a volunteer team on a conceptual design to envision a sustainable, mixed-use development in the Mantua neighorhood.

Know a nonprofit that needs us? The Collaborative’s service grants can answer important questions: What’s our vision? What do we need? What will it look like? What will it cost? With a Collaborative report in hand, nonprofits are well positioned to answer these questions, establish partnerships, obtain funding, and gain community support for their projects. Apply!