Citizen's Institute on Rural Design (CIRD)

Description:

The program is funded by National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Housing Assistance Council. The program focuses on communites with populations of 50,000 or less. Their goal is to enhance the quality of life and economic vitality of rural America through planning, design, and creative placemaking. The program offers competitive funding to small towns, rural and tribal communities to host a local design workshop. It also includes support for rural communities through the Design Learning Cohort which provides peer learning, training in design, planning, community engagement, and facilitation techniques, one-on-one technical assistance on the community design challenge, and support in navigating funding opportunities.