We believe arts organizations and artists in historically marginalized and underinvested neighborhoods are critical anchors in the city’s recovery and long-term health. Turnout NYC prioritizes these anchors and the audiences they serve. 

Design Trust for Public Space is a nonprofit organization which brings together city agencies, community organizations and private sector experts to make a lasting impact on how New Yorkers live, work and play.

Our current and upcoming: RFP: The Restorative City, a call for projects dedicated to exploring how public space and the built environment can advance health equity; Opening the Edge, a resident-led process to design a new public space at the Lillian Wald Houses; Neighborhood Commons, working with NYC Small Business Services to provide place-based organizations and small businesses the tools to recover as key community anchors; Turn Out NYC, a project increasing access to arts and culture in public spaces across the city, in partnership with SITU and the Mellon Foundation; and Alfresco NYC, a multi-stage, coalition-led effort to define the future of outdoor dining for New York City.