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Radian is a women-founded and -led architecture and urban design nonprofit with the mission to advance social equity in the built environment. Radian envisions a world where residents, who have been traditionally underrepresented in design and planning, have the agency, power, and resources they need to shape their own communities and neighborhoods.

Radian was founded in 2013, and our work 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.

Radian partners with trusted community groups and leaders in neighborhoods that have been historically excluded in design and planning. Our projects support BIPOC, low-income families, immigrants and refugees, our unhoused neighbors, and other groups that are vulnerable to involuntary displacement.

Current projects include The 303 Artway Heritage Trail, The RNO Equity Toolkit, The Colorado Zoning Atlas, The Education Land Use and Real Estate Framework, The ECE Development Handbook, and Design and Technical Assistance for 5280 Freedom School, Be the Change Community School, and Radical Arts Academy of Denver. We also designed and manage a nonprofit community co-working space, BUILD, in Five Points. 

We couldn’t do any of this important work without our partners, and that includes YOU!

Starting today, you can be a part of Colorado’s biggest giving day of the year, and support our community work through a donation of any size now through December 6th.

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