Since 1991, the Community Design Collaborative and its volunteers have supported the facility and community development goals of almost 500 nonprofit organizations.... read more

The Collaborative's 2006 Community Design Award recognizes the collaboration of Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia, Wallace Roberts & Todd, LLC, and the Energy Coordinating Agency on a conceptual design for green affordable housing in East Parkside... read more

Infill Philadelphia is a five-year initiative created by the Community Design Collaborative to promote workable solutions for revitalizing urban neighborhoods through innovative design.... read more

Listen to the proceedings of our January 18th event... read more

The Affordable Infill Housing Design Challenge was organized by the Community Design Collaborative and the Philadelphia Neighborhood Development Collaborative (PNDC). The goal of the Design Challenge was to push the affordable housing envelope... read more

How can the design process be utilized to overcome difficult sites and antiquated city policies — and support resident input and a sense of community? These case studies tell the story behind four successful new residential developments in urban places... read more

Healthy urban neighborhoods need vibrant commercial districts with employment opportunities, convenience shopping, and restaurants and shops that bring people into the community. In 2004, the Community Design Collaborative awarded five grants to CDC's... read more

Join us for Community Design Matters, an exhibit of recent architectural and landscape design projects commissioned by nonprofit organizations. The exhibit presents nearly thirty successful collaborations between designers and their nonprofit clients... read more

The Collaborative's 2004 Community Design Award recognized Beatriz Vieira, Executive Director of Lutheran Settlement House, and a team of volunteers led by Brawer & Hauptman, Architects. The honorees included... read more

Reverend Patrick Cabello Hansel started Centro Nueva Creacion to capture and support the good in West Kensington, popularly known as the Badlands. The center plans to create an inviting, environmentally sustainable outdoor space for the community... a Haven in the Goodlands... read more

Council will host its first student design competition in 2005. Students are to design a "green" community center, part of a neighborhood gateway plan developed by the Design Collaborative... read more

Let www.pnrt.org take you to Kensington, the Caribe Development Zone, Yorktown, Society Hill, and more. The Philadelphia Neighborhood Recovery Tour website offers a virtual tour of ten successful real estate ventures in city neighborhoods... read more

The Preschool Project, a provider of affordable childcare and childcare training, was offered the vacant East Baptist Church in Fishtown. But this prospective new home needed substantial improvements...read more

The Community Design Collaborative is pleased to announce the recipients of its first round of grants in 2004... read more

The Community Design Collaborative is seeking volunteers work with congregations enrolled in New Partners/New Dollars, a training program sponsored by Partners for Sacred Places. Get involved in a New Dollars/New Partners project...read more

The Community Design Collaborative presented its first Community Design Award at the AIA Philadelphia 2003 Design Awards. The award recognizes excellence in design and client collaboration in a project by Collaborative volunteers...read more