The Immigration Law Project at Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid provides direct legal services to address the critical needs of eligible immigrant clients in Hennepin and Anoka counties.

This winter, CURA Community Viz worked with the Immigrant Law Project to create a Safety Planning Card for immigrants: a wallet-sized card that can hold important information like your A-Number, important medical information, and the number of your attorney, as well as your rights and responsibilities if you have an encounter with law enforcement.

MMLA staff hand out these cards in workshops they do and has them available at their…

As Frogtown neighborhood in St Paul got ready to update their 10-year Small Area Plan, the neighborhood association wanted to make sure they communicated the process and the plan itself in a way that would get more people involved. CURA Community Visualization staff and artists collaborated with Frogtown Neighborhood Association to make a guide to the Small Area Planning process,…

CURA’s Community Visualization staff and designers worked with American Indian Cancer Foundation to create a resource that shares important facts about the American Indian cancer burden. Information on cancer for American Indians and Alaska Natives is often presented for the United States as a whole, which can mask some important differences that exist for these regions.

This…

Interfaith Outreach & Community Partners is an organization in suburban west Hennepin County that responds to emergency needs, moves families toward stability and positive change, and engages volunteers and partners in service, leadership, and capacity building.

This spring, CURA's Community Visualization staff and designers worked with IOCP to create an improved one-pager for their Great Expectations effort,…

This spring, CURA’s Community Viz staff and designers worked with creators of the Equitable Development Scorecard to turn the Word doc into a graphic pdf that can be printed, filled in, and customized.

The Scorecard was created by Twin Cities community leaders to make sure that the principles and practices of equitable development, environmental justice, and affordability are available to all communities as they plan for…

CURA's Community Visualization program recently wrapped up a collaboration with Growing Up Healthy in Rice County.

Growing Up Healthy is a coalition of organizations and agencies founded in 2007 to address the social factors influencing the health of young families in Rice County. Latinx leaders and Growing Up Healthy program staff wanted to create a visual version of the ACLU's Know Your Rights guide, including local resources and highlighting the information most important…

What Repairs Are Required in My Apartment is a visual guide created as a collaborative effort between the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA), Minneapolis neighborhoods, and housing organizations who support tenant organizing.

Read more about What Repairs are Required in My Apartment and the story of how the guide came together at the Minneapolis Renters Coalition blog.

Community members are invited to participate in an upcoming “Cafe Con Alondra” forum about renter…

Stephen Peyton is a Graduate Research Assistant working primarily on Community GIS for the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs. Stephen’s perspective on making maps user-friendly and accessible really embodies the mission of CURA and our work with community partners. Below is a Q&A with Stephen and details on the powerful airplane noise map application he built in partnership with the MSP FairSkies Coalition. Also, we have a…