Name: SHORT TALKS: Grantmaking for Placemaking: Supporting Community Projects
Start: 2024-06-05T15:45:00-0400
End: 2024-06-05T17:00:00-0400

SHORT TALKS: Grantmaking for Placemaking: Supporting Community Projects

This Short Talk session will feature presentations that that focus on funding approaches for placemaking.

Short Talks are moderated lighting round sessions with multiple short presentations, featuring presenters who will be speaking on a related topic. They are a great way to hear a range of cases, geographies, perspectives and sub-topics within one space! Short Talks are also being held in our largest venue, so they are good sessions to be in if you want some space from the crowd.

Presentation titles and speakers:

Aaron Kaufman - "Neighborhood Placemaking: Sharing the Impact of the Community Spruce-Up Grant Program"

Martha Snow - "Investing in local leaders: New models for envisioning public space across NYC’s boroughs"

Shaylee Zaugg - "Snowballing in Sunnyside: A Story of How One Denver Neighborhood uses Micro-Grants for Greater Impact"

Amy Cohen - "How a government bureaucrat co-created a citywide placemaking initiative to save San Francisco - and how it both failed and succeeded"

Sarah Lewitus - "Leveraging arts funding for Creative Placekeeping in Baltimore"

Aisha Glover - "The next chapter of Newark, NJ: how Audible is transforming its headquarters city through investments in public art, storytelling, and local business development"

Bridget Anderson - "Earth, Air, Fire and Water - Reconnecting to Cultural and Environmental Roots"

Speakers

Nate Storring

Co-Executive Director, Project for Public Spaces

Nate Storring is the Co-Executive Director of Project for Public Spaces, a nonprofit organization that promotes placemaking around the world through training, events, and on-the-ground projects. As a writer, researcher, curator, and convener, Storring has spent his career documenting... Read More →

Bridget Anderson

Indiana Director, Patronicity

Aaron Kaufman

Director of Community Projects, Central Baltimore Partnership

Aaron builds and manages coalitions of Central Baltimore neighborhood organizations and a wide range of strategic stakeholders (non-profits, governmental agencies, residents, etc), focusing on CBP’s Front and Center Equity Plan, the Greenmount, Life, Opportunities, and Wellness... Read More →

Aisha Glover

Global Head of Urban Innovation, Audible

Aisha Glover joined Audible in 2020 as the Head of Urban Innovation and became Head, Global Center for Urban Innovation in 2023. Aisha has served as President & CEO of Invest Newark under Mayor Ras J. Baraka, as President & CEO of the Newark Alliance and as VP of External Affairs... Read More →

Amy Cohen

Business Generation Manager, Port of San Francisco

Amy Cohen is Business Generation Manager at the Port of San Francisco. For 15+ years Amy worked in multiple roles at the SF Office of Economic and Workforce Development, where most recently she was the Director of Public Space Regeneration. Amy is an experienced urban strategist... Read More →

Martha Snow

Director of Community Design, Urban Design Forum

Martha Snow leads Urban Design Forum’s initiative the Local Center to equip community-based organizations to lead public space design and planning projects in their neighborhoods. Martha brings a decade of experience in community-led design and experiential learning through the... Read More →

Sarah Lewitus

Program Director, Performing Arts & Accessibility, Mid Atlantic Arts

Sarah Lewitus (she/her) is a Baltimore-based arts worker interested in performance, space, and turning imagination into action. She works as Program Director, Performing Arts and Accessibility Coordinator at Mid Atlantic Arts. Prior, Sarah was an Associate Curator at Dance Place in... Read More →