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#ColoradoGivesDay Project Highlight: ECE Developme

#ColoradoGivesDay Project Highlight: ECE Development Handbook

Research shows that the most critical period in a child’s development occurs within the first five years of life. The quality of learning experiences during this period often has a life-long impact on later school success, behavior, and health.

Radian has consistently been committed to rethinking how to equitably advance Early Childhood Education (ECE), specifically tackling Colorado’s deficit of affordable, high-quality ECE centers in underserved areas. Whether designing ECE centers, performing ECE land use and real estate support, or being a thought leader in developing creative built environment solutions for ECE development, Radian has been able to support ECE operators and advocacy groups navigate and overcome the most common development barriers.

There are only a few more days until Colorado Gives Day! If you are able, please consider supporting our ECE advocacy work.

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Celebrate #GivingTuesday with Radian! Radian envi

Celebrate #GivingTuesday with Radian!

Radian envisions a world where residents, who have been traditionally excluded in design and planning, have the agency, power, and resources they need to shape their own communities and neighborhoods.

Our approach is based in the acknowledgement that discriminatory policies and institutionalized racism, woven throughout the built environment, have created gross inequities in health, wealth, and power that have compounded over time. To confront this reality, we center residents' expertise and lived experiences through community partnerships and design processes that are inclusive, collaborative, and responsive.

The best way you can help us achieve this vision is by supporting our work! We have one week until #ColoradoGivesDay, but you can support us today, #GivingTuesday, as we build a more equitable Colorado.

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#ColoradoGivesDay Project Highlight: Safe Outdoor

#ColoradoGivesDay Project Highlight: Safe Outdoor Spaces

Radian supports and advocates for communities experiencing homelessness, providing project management, design services, and technical assistance to advocacy organizations who support Denver’s most vulnerable. From co-designing tiny home villages to co-developing safe outdoor spaces, Radian is proud of the role design can and should play in creating spaces of belonging for everyone.

This year, we focused our design and technical assistance efforts on several Safe Outdoor Spaces throughout Denver. If you had the opportunity to volunteer with us, thank you for showing up and helping out!

Please consider donating to our design work that continues to support and shelter our unhoused neighbors.

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#ColoradoGivesDay Project Highlight: Design Techni

#ColoradoGivesDay Project Highlight: Design Technical Assistance

Following our Education Land Use and Real Estate work, Radian partners with several community-led schools throughout Denver (including Radical Arts Academy of Denver, 5280 Freedom School, and Be The Change Community School) to provide them with the design and technical assistance they need to build and operate their dream schools.

This is what we do best, using our design skills to make community visions a reality! Please support us as we support the development of community-serving spaces with design and technical assistance.

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#ColoradoGivesDay Project Highlight: BUILD BUILD,

#ColoradoGivesDay Project Highlight: Denver’s Re

#ColoradoGivesDay Project Highlight: Denver’s Readiness for ADUs Report

Radian’s latest report, Denver’s Readiness for ADUs: Expanding ADUs to Work Citywide, examines the preconditions of an ADU movement such as Denver’s affordable housing crisis, high land values, role of zoning regulations, design standards, and access to capital.

This ADU report examines and identifies whether ADUs can be an affordable tool for low- to moderate-income families in the Denver metro area while mitigating involuntary displacement. Driven by stakeholder and community conversations, this report evaluates how these preconditions, along with community understanding and political will, could drive a transformative systems change in Denver’s land use and housing policy.

Please consider supporting Radian’s housing research work! Your support makes a BIG difference in advancing social equity in the built environment.

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#ColoradoGivesDay Project Highlight: RNO Equity To

#ColoradoGivesDay Project Highlight: RNO Equity Toolkit Phase II

Registered Neighborhood Organizations (RNOs) in Denver suffer from distinct challenges when it comes to accurately representing the diversity of the communities they serve, disproportionately impacting low-income residents, renters, and communities of color. RNOs in Denver are volunteer organizations that are often constrained by a lack of resources to perform time- and cost-intensive outreach and engagement to identify cultural gaps, structural barriers, and creative solutions.

Building off the findings in Phase I of the RNO Equity Toolkit, Phase II focuses on supporting up to nine neighborhood RNOs in West Denver to fund, implement, test, and iterate tailored recommendations to increase diverse representation, participation, and decision-making in RNOs. In order to best support these community partners, Radian is administering our first-ever community grant program, where we can directly distribute funds to RNOS to support their budgeted goals outlined in their equity action plans.

Please consider supporting community projects like the RNO Equity Toolkit.

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#ColoradoGivesDay Project Highlight: Education Lan

#ColoradoGivesDay Project Highlight: Education Land Use and Real Estate Framework

Central to Radian’s work is the acknowledgement that quality, community-led education is a defining factor in a child’s health, well-being, and opportunities to thrive; representation in the development and leadership of schools matters; and new educational models are foundational to life-long creativity, resilience, and problem-solving for students. Radian works with and alongside Denver schools with the understanding that traditional school environments cannot always meet every child’s specific needs, disproportionately impacting students of color.

As community leaders set out to develop new quality schools to meet the needs of the full diversity of Denver students, Radian is supporting them with land use and real estate technical assistance in the development of their new school visions. With a pipeline of new community-led charter schools, Radian assists each school operator on a case-by-case basis to identify and prioritize specific neighborhoods, parcels, and real estate assets in Denver tailored to the development of education facilities that align with their visions. We are proud and grateful to be a small part of a big team that is transforming the education landscape in Denver toward equity and justice.

Please consider supporting community projects like the Education Land Use and Real Estate Framework.

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Radian is the only architecture and urban design n

Radian is the only architecture and urban design nonprofit in Colorado, and we are proudly woman-founded and -led with an all-female team working to advance social equity and design justice in the built environment!

Support our team during #ColoradoGivesDay as we challenge the status quo by donating today! And stay tuned as we highlight some of our favorite 2022 projects throughout the month.

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