ISA Partners

MetLife Foundation was established by MetLife to continue the company’s long tradition of corporate contributions and community involvement. The Foundation supports programs that improve education, promote health, encourage parental involvement and family engagement, help revitalize neighborhoods and stress accessibility and inclusion. The Foundation contributes to arts and cultural organizations, with an emphasis on increasing opportunities for young people, reaching broad audiences through inclusive programming, and making arts more accessible for all people. For more information, please visit www.metlife.org.

The Ford Foundation is an independent, nonprofit grant-making organization. For more than half a century it has worked with courageous people on the frontlines of social change worldwide, guided by its mission to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement. With headquarters in New York, the foundation has offices in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. For more information please visit www.fordfoundation.org.

The Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) resides in the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since its inception in 1933, DUSP has consistently remained one of the premiere planning schools in the country. Now totaling close to 60 teaching faculty members, it has the largest planning faculty in the United States. For the Space for Change Awards, faculty from the City Design and Development Group, as well as other programs at the Institute, provide expertise in community revitalization, urban design and community planning, architecture, economic and arts and cultural district development, and public art. Graduate research assistants provide critical support by assisting in program outreach and by conducting documentation and research activities. For more information, please visit http://dusp.mit.edu/.