Civic Design Center's Annual Report: FY 19

ANNUAL REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2019

JULY 1, 2018 - JUNE 30, 2019

THINK • DESIGN • CREATE • SUSTAIN

OUR MISSION NASHVILLE CIVIC DESIGN CENTER IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WHOSE MISSION IS TO ELEVATE THE QUALITY OF NASHVILLE’S BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND TO PROMOTE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THE CREATION OF A MORE BEAUTIFUL AND FUNCTIONAL CITY FOR ALL.

FROM NASHVILLE CIVIC DESIGN CENTER CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER GARY GASTON The Nashville Civic Design Center (NCDC) is pleased to present a summary of our organization’s events, engagement, publications and financial vitality for the 2019 Fiscal Year (July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019).

Much of our focus this past year was focused on our Reclaiming Public Space initiative, which served as the theme of our 2018 Annual Luncheon, featuring keynote speaker Mike Lydon delivering his message to a crowd of 700 attendees. We also revamped our luncheon to make it more interactive, featuring installations that exhibit best practices in public space design.

NCDC made a strong stance to actively “reclaim” a public space in Downtown – Church Street Park, which was faced with being closed and redeveloped into a high-rise condominium tower. Our work helped save the space and has since been focused on transforming it into a beautiful active public space for all to enjoy.

This year we also released multiple publications, including: Reclaiming Public Space Volume II, Reclaiming Public Space: Alleys, Affordable Housing 101, and a blog series focused on Church Street Park and Anne Dallas Dudley Boulevard.

We continued our close work with UTK College of Architecture and Design and Vanderbilt University, both founding partners of the Civic Design Center – with studios focused on architecture and engineering projects around Nashville.

Other highlights of the year included expansion of our Design Your Neighborhood educational curriculum – transitioning to 7th and 8th grade Metro Nashville Public Schools, with 2,500 students, 45 teachers in 26 schools.

In conclusion, we continue to promote community engagement that brings together civic leaders, stakeholders, property owners, residents, businesses, government departments, service providers, nonprofits, and philanthropists, to allow a truly public process to unfold in the creation of more beautiful and functional communities for all.

Thank you for your continued support and partnership in fulfilling our mission.

Gary Gaston CEO, Nashville Civic Design Center Assistant Professor of Practice, University of Tennessee College of Architecture + Design

CORE INITIATIVES Following a Strategic Plan for this fiscal year, the Nashville Civic Design Center made the decision to focus its efforts on four core initiatives that embody the Plan of Nashville, which is also the foundation of the 10 Principles. These core initiatives are Community Education, Reclaiming Public Space, Mobility & Land Use, and Shaping the Healthy Community.

COMMUNITY EDUCATION A major portion of NCDC's work focuses on Community Education. From monthly events, like Urban Design Forum and PechaKucha Nights, to hosting a regular flow of research internships and design fellowships, NCDC aims to keep the Nashville community informed.

DESIGN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD On a greater scale, our Design Your Neighborhood STEAM curriculum is impacting thousands of students by teaching them about the effects of design on community issues and how to elevate their voices to help make change

MOBILITY & LAND USE After great research and investment into the book, Moving Tennessee Forward, it was clear that Middle Tennessee is ready for more when it comes to Mobility & Land Use inspiration. We work with partners Greater Nashville Regional Council, and UTK College of Architecture + Design to promote safer, accessible, and more convenient connections between communities. NCDC envisions potential new developments, infrastructure, and transportation options to implement in the future.

RECLAIMING PUBLIC SPACE Reclaiming Public Space is an initiative designed to raise the quality and expand the diversity of public spaces. Global design consensus holds that the best public spaces foster community, elevate quality of life, connect us to our city and each other. Under this initiative, citizens and local leaders have tools to inspire and guide them in new ways of civic investment that supports and connects all citizens.

Some of those tools for inspiration are publications, temporary tactitical urbanism projects through TURBO, Park(ING) Day, and more.

SHAPING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES Shaping the Healthy Community: The Nashville Plan was published in 2016, but it doesn't just end there. NCDC decided to make it a core intiative on which projects are focused. Six key features emerged as key built environment influencers upon public health that guide the intiative's work including, 1) Neighborhood Design & Development, 2) Walkability & Pedestrian Safety, 3) Transporation, 4) Open Space & Parks, 5) Housing, and 6) Food Resources.

FY2019 HIGHLIGHTS & ACHIEVEMENTS JULY 2018 The Future of Parks series continues with NCDC’s Meet Wharf Park series. The series was closed with a paddling tour and two historic nature walking tours.

AUGUST PechaKucha Night Image Building had over 200 attendees come to hear how photography transforms architecture.

For the third year, TURBO partnered with Tomato Fest 2018 and Nashville School of the Arts to transform 5 Points gas station into a park. People could relax, play games, watch aerialists, while students made cyanotypes.

NCDC assisted Metro Parks with public input and planned events to encourage more participation and awareness for the new public park on Jefferson Street.

SEPTEMBER The Nashville Post's Boom Issue launched featuring NCDC's Reclaiming Public Space Initiative significantly.

NCDC and HCA partnered for the first time during HCA Volunteers Day. Volunteers spent half the day creating teaching packets for the Design Your Neighborhood curriculum. Then volunteers took the second half of the day to participate in a pop-up traffic calming effort outside the HCA office.

PARK(ing) Day 2018 was held on Friday, September 21st in downtown Nashville, the Gulch, East Nashville, and Vanderbilt areas. The event hosted over 75 parklets by local businesses, nonprofit organizations and citizens. Mayor Briley announced a pilot program for applying to install a parklet on city streets

OCTOBER The Golden Cone Awards—the official awards ceremony for PARK(ing) Day started by NCDC, was hosted at Center 615’s new courtyard.

NCDC continued to partner with Metro Parks on design charettes and public meetings for the new public park on Jefferson Street. Students at TSU also assisted.

NOVEMBER Each year, NCDC’s Annual Luncheon becomes the most well-attended, 2018 brought in 700 guests and 90 sponsors celebrating tactical urbanism with keynote, Mike Lydon.

Before Annual Luncheon, a special presentation in Wedgewood-Houston by Mike Lydon and Ron Yearwood initiated conversations around a tactical urbanism project in the Wedgewoood-Houston neighborhood.

PechaKucha Night held at WELD explored the theme, “Creative Process,”.

DECEMBER NCDC welcomed over 100 attendees to the Holiday Open House. NCDC unveiled the office renovation renderings by Gresham Smith and Global Furniture Group.

NCDC released a blog series envisioning the future of Church Street Park. The public release of these posts contributed to saving the park from a land trade development.

JANUARY 2019 An Urban Design Forum kicked off the new year with the theme of Pathways and Public Space. Following the NCDC blog series on Church Street Park, and the publication of Reclaiming Public Space: Alleys, attendees heard about the improved pedestrian experience opportunities that these underutilized spaces could achieve.

FEBRUARY The first PechaKucha Night of 2019 focused on the feeling of being at home using design techniques.

Partnering with Mars Petcare and Civil Site Design Group, NCDC submitted the first long-term parklet permit to be installed outside Mike's Ice Cream on 2nd Ave N. An Urban Design Forum was hosted in the Van Vechten Gallery, “SCAPE”, that featured 20th century African American artists inspired by the built environment. The discussion centered around the development of the new park on Jefferson Street.

MARCH Reclaiming Public Space: Alleyways was relased this month.

NCDC received the HCA Grant to work with local stakeholders in North Nashville in order to create a strategic plan for Jefferson St between 28th Ave N and 12 Ave N.

APRIL Enterprise Community Partners and Rose Architectural Fellows gave a panel discussion about effective ways to engage communities for sustainable impact.

Creating Affordable Housing Using Transit-Oriented Development was the theme for April’s Urban Design Forum. The event touched on building housing on top of the WeGo Central bus terminal by Vanderbilt Engineering students, and more.

With feasibility as a theme in April, Vanderbilt Engineering students also contributed to this month’s CityThink. The focus was on Capping the Interstate with public space to repair communities negatively affected by midcentury infrastructure.

MAY The Design Your Neighborhood Student Showcase had an inspiring display of student-envisioned projects in transit and affordable housing. Nashville public leaders were invited to listen to the powerful perspectives of young people in their city.

TURBO partnered with Walk Bike to create a traffic calming public art around Amqui Elementary as part of their Safe Routes to School program.

PechaKucha Night focused on the theme “Mexico Perspectivas”, where attendees heard stories from thosed who have visited Mexico as well as Mexican-Nashvillians.

The rich topics ranged from culture and spirit to design and architecture.

CONVERGE, SNAP, and TURBO partnered up to hear the Wedgewood-Houston community’s concerns and brainstorm artful solutions to traffic and public space.

JUNE An Urban Design Forum was hosted as a preview to Reclaiming Public Space: Downtown Nashville Volume II. Projects focused on Gay St, Lafayette, and more.

June’s CityThink was a special event devoted to all things affordable housing. NCDC released its Affordable Housing 101 report along with The Game of Rent, and attendees were dealt a hand. With that hand, players used real local data to find out what they could afford if their life cards were dealt differently.

MAJOR EVENTS & PROJECTS 2018 PARK(ING) DAY For the eighth year, NCDC organized PARK(ing) Day Nashville event held on the third Friday in September. PARK(ing) Day is a global event where parking spots in over 250 cities around the world are transformed into seating areas and mini-parks for public enjoyment called, “parklets.” Often taking up not more than a standard parking space, these installations transform city streets into places where public life can thrive and inspire.

The mission of PARK(ing) day is to call attention to the need for more urban open space, to generate critical debate around how public space is created and allocated and to improve the quality of the urban experience. PARK(ing) Day sets out to show that it’s “about open space.” During PARK(ing) Day, volunteers from all over the world challenge their communities to rethink the way streets are used and how to make them friendly to people as well as cars.

Participants in Nashville compete with others to win a coveted Golden Cone Award at a ceremony held the week after PARK(ing) Day. This PARK(ing) Day was special because Mayor Briley announced a Pilot Parklet Permit that businesses could apply for to extend the advocacy of PARK(ing) Day beyond a single day.

GOLDEN CONE AWARDS The Golden Cone Awards celebrates the hard work and creative efforts of PARK(ing) Day participant groups from the over 70 organizations and businesses in and around downtown Nashville. Judging of the installations in sixteen categories was completed during PARK(ing) Day event.

2018 ANNUAL LUNCHEON: Reclaiming Public Space At the 2018 Annual Luncheon, we hosted 700 design, civic, and government professionals, elected officials, students and engaged citizens to celebrate NCDC’s work and accomplishments over the previous year, and hear from keynote speaker and thought leader Mike Lydon. The Annual Luncheon was co-chaired by board members Dana Terebessy and Andrew Beaird.

Keynote Speaker Mike Lydon is an internationally recognized planner, writer, speaker, and advocate for livable cities. NPR, The New York Times, CNN Headline News, ABC News, City Lab, Planetizen, Salon, Next City, Architect Magazine, and Streetsblog have featured his work, among other publications.

Mike is the creator of the The Open Streets Project and the globally acclaimed Tactical Urbanism: Short-Term Action, Long-Term Change Vol.1 – 4. With Tony Garcia, Mike is the recipient of the 2017 Seaside Prize and co-author of Tactical Urbanism (Island Press, 2015), named by Planetizen as one of the top ten planning books of the year.

I AM PLEASED TO SEE AND LEARN MORE ABOUT THE WORK THE CIVIC DESIGN CENTER IS DOING, IT’S PHENOMENAL WORK, IT’S NATION-LEADING WORK, AND SO YOU SHOULD BE SUPPORTING THEIR EFFORTS. Mike Lydon

2018-2019 SCHOOL YEAR 2,500

DESIGN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD: CURRICULUM UPDATES

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Design Your Neighborhood is the youth education initiative of NCDC that engages young people in Nashville’s urban planning process. DYN offers project-based learning curriculum for 7th and 8th grade art, English, science, and social studies classes that challenges students to problem solve local transportation and affordable housing issues. DYN also offers a curriculum called Community Design 101 that teaches the basics of community design and includes activities that can be adapted to all ages and learning environments. DYN staff and teacher contractors worked over the summer to update the social studies curriculum to provide more opportunities for students to engage in concrete strategies for change. The curriculum writing team also began writing curriculum for math courses that will be rolled out FY20.

In and effort to elevate student voice and provide transformative career exposure, DYN recruited professionals to volunteer in classrooms to give project feedback and career talks. DYN students had the opportunity to showcase their work to the community during our May Urban Design Forum that included a project gallery, podcast listening stations, and a student panel discussion.

MEASURING THE IMPACTS DYN is partnering with a research team at Vanderbilt Peabody College who is measuring the effect a design-based educational curriculum has on improving education attainment, civic engagement, and well-being for youth participants. The research team conducted pre and post surveys and focus group interviews with students. While the survey data is still being processed, focus group results showed gains in students’ ability to articulate their awareness of local issues that are rooted in structural inequality. The students also showed interest in educating others, particularly those who they perceive to hold positions of relative authority, about the root causes of these injustices.

After our first year implementing 7th and 8th grade curriculum, DYN is looking forward to growing our reach in schools to have a system-wide impact, thus adding the critically important youth voice to our city and developing a generation of civicminded leaders to who understand and value built environment design.

I FEEL LIKE WE COULD CREATE A BOARD OF STUDENTS WITH--WE HAVE ALL THESE ADVISORY BOARDS, BUT THEY ARE ALL MADE OF ADULTS. AND IF WE BRING MIDDLE SCHOOLERS AND HIGH SCHOOLERS TOGETHER AND WE CREATE THIS BOARD, AND WE TALK ABOUT WHAT WE SEE AND WHAT WE WANT TO IMPROVE IN NASHVILLE, AND WE ARE ABLE TO TALK TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE IN NASHVILLE WHO HAVE AN EFFECT ON THIS, AND THEY USE WHAT WE BRING TO THE EQUATION. THAT WOULD HELP A LOT. Bellevue Middle, 8th Grade

I THINK IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO LEARN ABOUT THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN TRAFFIC AND PEOPLE. THE STRUGGLE TO GET TO WORK OR SCHOOL. FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE KIDS AT THIS SCHOOL THEY HAVE TO TAKE THE MTA BUS. SOME PARENTS DON'T HAVE THE TRANSPORTATION TO AND FROM THE SCHOOL. Head Middle Magnet, 7th Grade

RECLAIMING PUBLIC SPACE PROJECTS Reclaiming Public Space an initiative designed to raise the quality and expand the diversity of public spaces, and also the theme of this year's Annual Luncheon. Global design consensus holds that the best public spaces foster community, elevate quality of life, connect us to our city and each other. Components of NCDC’s work in support of reclaiming public space in Nashville includes: TURBO (Tactical URBanism Organizers group); parklet initiatives (including PARK(ing) Day Nashville event). With Reclaiming Public Space, Nashville civic participants and local leaders have tools to inspire and guide them in new ways of civic investment that supports and connects all citizens.

Envisioning Projects CHURCH STREET PARK Inspired by communities' concerns regarding a development in place of Church Street Park in Downtown Nashville. NCDC founded a committee to address the concerns regarding the lack of engagement for what would be a critical change to the Downtown community.

NCDC created a series of blog posts that advocated for enhancing the park design and helped explore an alternative to a proposed building on the public park or leaving it as the status quo.

ENVISIONING NOLENSVILLE This project was meant to envision placemaking opportunities along Nolensville Pike in South Nashville. This is part of a larger project that will inform locations and ideas for future art projects in the community.

NCDC helped facilitate multiple community meetings. Feedback from the community inspired renderings so that residents could visualize the possibilies.

Conexion Americas, Greater Nashville Regional Council, Metro Arts Nashville, NashvilleMTA, and the Salahadeen Center partnered with NCDC on this project. This project was a finalist for the Center for Nonprofit Management's Salute to Excellence Award that focuses on Team Building.

TURBO PROJECTS AMQUI ELEMENTARY TRAFFIC CALMING TURBO and Walk Bike Nashville received a grant from Zendrive to fund a traffic calming project near one of Walk Bike’s focus schools, Amqui Elementary (as part of their Safe Routes To School program).

The grant money was used to help students design yard signs to slow traffic in their neighborhood, host a design charrette with community members that informed the best ways to slow traffic in their neighborhood, and carry out a major tactical urbanism project. This included gateway treatments and a

significant public art piece to slow down traffic and create a sense of place in the community.

WEDGEWOOD HOUSTON PLACEMAKING At a community engagement workshop in May of 2019, a few locations were identified as potential placemaking opportunities: 1) The intersection of Humphreys and Martin was selected as the top priority for the neighborhood because of its proximity to SNAP (one of the oldest neighborhood organizations in Nashville). Highlighting this as an important place using art and traffic calming bulb-outs could signify to passerby that they are in a celebrated part of the neighborhood.

2) The SNAP and Train Bridge Intersections are almost directly connected by an alley where a display of public art and interactivity could showcase the creativity of the neighborhood.

3) The neighborhood also identified the Chestnut St and Hagan St intersection (shown right middle) as a dangerous crossing and an important connectivity piece of the neighborhood.

NOW THAT WE HAVE THIS MURAL, WE NOTICED THAT TRAFFIC IS SLOWING DOWN BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE JUST ADMIRING THE BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK. Lotoya Cobb Principal of Amqui Elementary

MOBILITY & LAND USE PROJECTS: UTK COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN Nashville Civic Design Center and the University of Tennessee Knoxville College of Architecture and Design (UTK CoAD) are a dynamic team for imagining urban design solutions. Through this partnership, architecture students get the chance to study potential real world projects in Nashville. This unique collaboration between staff and students working at NCDC has produced numerous books and research reports on studies surrounding housing, policy, public art, sustainability and transit-oriented development.

This partnership aims to 1) provide an intense service-learning experience for the students, 2) to give the students an awareness of how the urban development process unfolds, and 3) to contribute innovative ideas to the public discussion of civic design issues.�

Greater Nashville Regional Council provides critical funding needed to support this partnership with UTK CoAD. SUMMER 2018: EAST BANK AMAZON HQ2 STUDY Design concepts for the East Bank were created during the Summer Studio program, incorporating the building requirements and features highlighted in the Amazon HQ2 search material.

SPRING 2019: TSU DOWNTOWN CAMPUS STUDY In early October, nearly 100 first-year Architecture and Interior Design students traveled to Nashville to connect with awardwinning design firms and observe the city’s unique architectural SUMMER 2019: TEACHERS VILLAGE ON TECH HILL STUDY During the following Summer Studio program, twelve students began envisioning a teachers' housing village on an eleven-acre plot owned by Metro, and currently being used for public school bus storage.

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY ENGINEERING This year, an exciting new partnership was introduced to the Nashville Civic Design Center. Vanderbilt Engineering requested the organization to serve as a mentor for students working on their senior projects. Projects were explored focusing on ideas that NCDC had already had a hand in visioning through public engagement.

AFFORDABLE INFILL TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT STUDY Sometimes, in order to create more density and affordable housing, you need to build up. Students did a feasibility study around the theme of transit-oriented design. They evaluated if afforable housing could be built on top of WeGo Central Station's parking deck. This study will appear in the High Rise Wood Publication to be released in FY2020.

CAPPING THE INTERSTATE STUDY Areas with existing interstates below the grade of a city’s primary street grid have the potential to be capped with a more functional addition, reconnecting the two sides of the interstate. Students examined the feasibility of buiding a highway cap park between The Gulch and Midtown, and Demonbreun and Broadway. This would reclaim the pedestrian interruption as a new public space.

HYDRO ELECTRIC POWERED KIOSKS STUDY NCDC has proposed the idea of a "Blueway", creating kiosks similar to B-Cycle stations, but for paddle boats, along the Cumberland River to encourage more recreational activity on Nashville's iconic waterway. Students explored the feasibility of these autonomous kiosks.

BASED ON STUDENT AND FACULTY FEEDBACK, THESE HAVE BEEN AMONG THE BEST SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTS OFFERED TO CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDENTS. THE STUDENTS WERE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO CREATIVELY SOLVE A REAL-WORLD PROBLEM WITHIN MANY CONSTRAINTS MENTORED BY PROFESSIONALS. IN THE FUTURE, I ENVISION STUDENTS CONTINUING WORK ON THESE PROJECTS AND INVOLVING MORE DISCIPLINES. Lori Troxel, Ph.D., P.E. Vanderbilt Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

THIS PROJECT WAS A FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO PLAY A VERY SMALL ROLE IN NASHVILLE’S GROWTH AND EVOLUTION, AND TO LEARN FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF THE TEAM AROUND US. IT WAS SO FULFILLING TO SPEND THE YEAR CONTRIBUTING TO THE VISION OF A MORE LIVABLE NASHVILLE. WE’RE GRATEFUL FOR THE STRONG PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN VANDERBILT AND NCDC, AND HOPE THAT STUDENTS LIKE US CAN KEEP WORKING ON PROJECTS LIKE THIS INTO THE FUTURE. Ian Faucher

SHAPING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES PROJECTS: BETTER CITIES FOR PETS™ With over 91 million pets in the U.S. Shaping Healthy Communities now means considering benefits, challenges and innovative opportunities pets bring to cities. Our partner initiative with Mars Petcare, Better Cities for Pets™, is helping cities locally, regionally, nationally and globally do just that.

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FY19 projects covered a wide spectrum of work yet centered around increasing our role in thought leadership, growing the body of research and work around pets and advocating for pets to be considered in city planning and design of all types. Civic Design Center played an essential role in helping to develop the Better Cities for Pets™ Certified-City program and helping Nashville become one of the first to be certified.

We were honored to be asked to assist in hosting and participating in the world-wide premiere of an incredible IMAX® film, Superpower Dogs; as well as the Washington D.C. premiere held at the Smithsonian’s American History Museum that was attended by several members of Congress.

THE WAYS IN WHICH CITIES WELCOME AND MANAGE THIS GROWING PET POPULATION WILL BE CRITICAL TO THE FUTURE PUBLIC HEALTH, ATTRACTIVENESS AND LIVABILITY OF CITIES. THROUGH OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH MARS PETCARE WE CAN HELP CITIES EVERYWHERE BETTER CONSIDER PETS IN PLANNING AND DESIGN AND MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE FOR PETS AND PEOPLE. Jolie Ayn Yockey Nashville Civic Design Center

Recent Projects Include: •

Our CEO, Gary Gaston presenting at Royal Canin’s Future of Animal Companionship Conference in Paris, France on “Adapting Urban Environments to Pets Needs;”

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US Conference of Mayors Better Cities for Pets™ grant program assistance;

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Contributions to the Playbook for Pet-Friendly Cities publication including downloadable tools and resources featured on the Better Cities for Pets™ new website;

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Development of a Better Cities for Pets™ assessment tool for both cities and citizens;

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Design and installation of “Pet-Friendly City of the Future” exhibit that visited Washington D.C, and Amsterdam, Netherlands;

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Contributing to design and innovations in creating the “Pet-Friendly Office of the Future” at Mars Petcare’s new headquarters in Franklin, TN;

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Co-presented with Mars Petcare at Urban Land Institute’s National Conference held in Nashville on topics related to our upcoming publication, Shaping the Healthy Community: Designing with Pets in Mind (2021).

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Pets Welcome program work with Nashville Downtown Partnership;

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Commencement of a Pets Work at Work in-office pilot and study;

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Educated and helped develop two Opportunity Now high school interns who focused their learning on pets in the built environment;

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Designed and submitted the first-ever pilot parklet “barklet” application to the City of Nashville (approval pending)

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Continued work on our upcoming publication, Shaping the Healthy Community: Designing with Pets in Mind (2021).

ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET 0.5% Miscellaneous

INCOME: Grants (Restricted) 28.2% Grants (Unrestricted) 28.3% Institutions 7.8% Major Donors 2.8% Memberships 2.3% Programs and Projects 1.5% Fundraising 23.5% Miscellaneous 0.5% In-Kind 5.1%

Total Income:

5.1% In-Kind

$ 280,451 $ 281,216 $ 77,100 $ 28,197 $ 22,461 $ 15,362 $ 233,507 $ 5,034 $ 50,775

23.5% Fundraising

28.2% Grants (Restricted)

28.3% Grants (Unrestricted)

$ 994,103

7.8% Institutions 2.3% Memberships 2.8% Major Donors 1.5% Programs and Projects

EXPENSES: General Operations 20.3% Programs and Projects 68.5% Fundraising 11.2%

Total Expenses:

$ 204,996 $ 692,135 $ 113,467

11.2% Fundraising

20.3% General

$ 1,010,598

Operations

68.5% Programs and Projects

Change in Net Assets

$ -16,495

Net Assets - beginning of year

$ 295,509

Net Assets - end of year

$ 279,014

2018-2019 ANNUAL SPONSORS PRESENTING SPONSORS

PROGRAM SPONSORS

KEYSTONE SPONSORS

CORNERSTONE SPONSORS

VOUSSOIR SPONSORS Aertson Midtown Anderson Design Studio Barge Cauthen + Associates, Inc. Bell & Associates Construction Boyle Investment Co. Brasfield & Gorrie CA South Development Catalyst Design Group Centric Architecture Concept Technology Inc. Crain Construction, Inc. DIAAD Foundry Commerical Freeman Webb Companies Gardens of Babylon

Gould Turner Group Hall Strategies Hardaway Construction Corp.

Hawkins Partners, Inc. HFR Design Hoar Construction Holladay Properties Lipscomb University Lose Design MarketStreet Newbern Consulting Services Oliver McMillan Spectrum Emery Pfeffer Torode Architecture Pinnacle Financial Partners Ragan-Smith Associates

Renasant Bank S&ME Inc. Silverpointe Properties Smith Gee Studio Smith Seckman Reid, Inc. Southeast Venture Stites & Harbison Tennessee Concrete Association Tennessee Department of Health Thomas & Hutton TMPartners, PLLC Tuck Hinton Architects Urban Grout Commercial Real Estate Van Pond Architect PLLC W&A Engineering

DONORS FOUNDATIONS & ORGANIZATIONS

INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS

Over $50,000

Over $50,000

HCA Healthcare Foundation

Steve and Judy Turner

Joni Priest

$1,000 - $4,999

Kris Ahrend

Mars Petcare Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County

$10,000 - $49,999

Andrew Maxwell Berdelle Campbell Chris Powers

Buckingham Foundation, Inc

Christopher Rowe

Frist Foundation

Craig Philip

Greater Nashville Regional Council

David Powell

& Metropolitan Planning

Dee Patel

Organization

Donna Glassford

Hastings Architecture

Eric Kopstain

Maddox Family Foundation

Hemalatha Gokhale

The Brown Family

Hunter Gee

University of Tennessee

Jefferson Ockerman

College of Architecture and

John Buntin

Design

Judson Newbern

Vanderbilt University

Kara Gee

$5,000 - $9,999

Kim Hawkins Kim Shinn

Conexion Americas

Larry Papel

Miken Development

L.J. Hoke

Scott Chambers Foundation

Manuel Zeitlin

The Village Real Estate Advised

Marian Ott

Fund

Mark Deutschmann Mike Kenner

$1,000 - $4,999

Melanie Moran

John & Melinda Buntin

Melinda Buntin

Louisiana Pacific Corporation

Meg Epstein

Metro Parks Foundation

Nick Green

WalkBike Nashville

Rita Hoke Scott Chambers

$500 - $999 Urban Housing Solutions

Seab Tuck Sherry Deutschmann Tara Armistead

$500-$999

TK Davis Jordan Lee Laura McCoy Neil Kohler Renata Soto

$101-$499 Adeline Fulmer Al Cocke Ashley Howell Catherine Epstein Christine Bingham Clay Petrey Clint Camp Dave Keiser David Bailey Douglas Smith Edward Henley III Gary Gaston George J Anderson Ian Myers Irwin Venick Jay Mikolinski Jody Lentz John Harkey Lynette Fulmer Mark Magnuson Melody Gibson Philip Welker Shandi Paro Teresa Blackburn Tifinie Capehart Won Choi

Up to $100

Andrew Beaird

Ashley Segroves

Christopher Dunn

Abbey Boghozian

Eric Schultenover

Abby Wheeler

MEMBER DONORS CONTINUED Adam Blair

Gina Emmanuel

Matthew Genova

Alan Hayes

Jackie Hansom

Matthew Taylor

Alan Thompson

James Kennon

Meagan Vaughn

Ali Alsaleh

Jan Duckworth

Meaghan McArdle

Allen Patton

Jayme Jacobson

Menie Bell

Allison Crady

Jim Yockey

Michele Mazzu

Allison Diehl

John Vick

Michelle Steele

Allison Plattsmier

Jolie Ayn Yockey

Mike Thompson

Allison Quintanilla

Joseph Mayes

Miles Biggs

Allison Salisbury

Joy Jarrett

Molly Alspaugh

Amy Hardin

Judy Bayer Steele

Nicole Baxter

Andrew Wharton

Jules Shainberg

Parker Camp

Ann Roberts

Julie Mattes

Patrick Ferrell

Benjamin Vaught

Justin Lowe

Phillip Powers

Brent Hunter

Justin Wallace

Robert Grenfell

Brian Christens

Kaitlin Ward

Robert White

Brittany Doseck

Kallie Curtis

Ron Yearboard

Carlin Mayes

Kasey West

Ryan Turbeville

Celeste Jones

Kate Armstrong

Samuel Dennis, Jr.

Cheryl Patton

Kate Hyde

Sara Hanan

Christian Paro

Kate Webster

Sara Lee

Christine Whitmore

Katherine Woods

Scott Guthrie

Clay Bailey

Kathleen Monaghan

Sean Braisted

Cliff Joyner

Kathryn Withers

Shelly Hazle

Clifford Lippard

Katie McDougall

Stefann Plishka

Daniel Alderman

Keith Loiseau

Stephanie McCullough

Daniel McDonell

Kelsey Oesmann

Steve Davis

Daniel Ryan

Kerry Brock

Steven Klintworth

Daniel Toner

Kevin Bolger

Suzanne Angele

David Bordenkircher

Kristen Gruhn

Tyler Neill

David Paine

Kristen Prevost

William Rosenthal

Douglas Perkins

Laura Miller

Zaki Daouk

Drew Wharton

Laura Sherborne

Earl Dunn

Laurel Creech

Elizabeth Cashion

Lauren Laumeyer

Elwyn Gonzalez

Leslie Speller-Henderson

Emery Hartz

Lindsay DeCarlo

Eric Hoke

Lynn Maddox

Eric Malo

Lynn Walker

Erin Donnelly

Lynn Williams

Erin Simpson

Margaret Scott

Fuller Hanan

Mark Gliebe

Genie P Yockey

Maryou Melissa Yohn

FY2019 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Cyril Stewart, President Cyril Stewart, LLC

David Powell, Past President Hastings Architecture Associates

Dana Terebessy, Vice President Urban Land Institute

Chris Powers HCA Healthcare

Jennifer Carlat, Secretary Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce

Eric Schultenover Counsel on Call, Good People Brewing Company

Andrew Beaird, Treasurer Core Development Services

Philip Shepard HOAR Construction

Ron Lustig, Immediate Past President Earl Swensson Associates, Inc.

Renata Soto Conexion Americas

Tifinie Capehart Silverpointe Properties

Michelle Steele Lipscomb University

Scott Chambers, Past President Scott C. Chambers Fund

Fathiyah Suso World Africultural Cultural Project

Laurel Creech Civic Leader

Irwin Venick Dobbins Venick, Kuhn & Byassee, PLLC

Meg Epstein CA South

FY19 Non-Voting Members

Edward Henley III Pillars Development

TK Davis, Ex-Officio University of Tennessee Knoxville

Kristy Hickson Lendlease

Mary Pat Teague, Past President and Ex-Officio Vanderbilt University

Jeff Kuhnhenn Gresham Smith & Partners

Carson West, YLC Board Intern Union Bank of Switzerland

Andrew Maxwell OakPoint Real Estate

Taylor Wirth, YLC Board Intern Bass Berry & Sims

Lee Molette Frank Stanton Developers Melanie Moran Vanderbilt University News and Communications Judson Newburn Newbern Consulting Services Craig Philip Vanderbilt University

FY2019 STAFF, INTERNS & FELLOWS NCDC Staff

FY19 Fellows

Gary Gaston, Chief Executive Officer Ron Yearwood, Design Director Melody Gibson, Education Manager Eric Hoke, Design Manager Joe Mayes, Program Manager Michael Thompson, Project & Evaluation Manager Jules Shainberg, Financial Coordinator Taylan Tekeli, Design & Research Assistant

Kelsey Oesmann, Enterprise Rose Fellow Daniel Toner, Design Fellow Billy White, Technology Fellow Elizabeth Crimmins, Design Fellow Emmett McKinney, Design Fellow Edian Mece, Research Fellow Taylor Young, Research Fellow

Jolie Ayn Yockey, Special Projects

FY19 Interns Jaqueline Cox Edgar Bolivar Janiah Edmondson Elias Luna Berenice Oliva Anastasiya Skvarnuik

EVERY DAY I WAS IN THE OFFICE, I FELT CHALLENGED AND INSPIRED, BY SUCH A DYNAMIC AND PASSIONATE GROUP OF PEOPLE, TO THINK CREATIVELY ABOUT THE FUTURE OF NASHVILLE. I FEEL SO LUCKY TO HAVE BEEN A PART OF A TEAM THAT PRIORITIZES ALL FACETS OF URBAN DESIGN IN A UNIQUE WAY. ,

Elizabeth Crimmins FY19 Fellow

“WE HAVE BEEN LED, SINCE THE BEGINNING, BY AN INCREDIBLY TALENTED STAFF, BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND OTHERS WHO ARE STILL ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN BOTH ACTIVE AND ADVISORY ROLES. NCDC IS STRONGER AND MORE EFFECTIVE NOW THAN AT ANY TIME IN OUR HISTORY. WE HAVE GREAT PARTNERS WHO SHARE OUR PASSION FOR SHAPING AN EVER MORE VIBRANT AND HEALTHY NASHVILLE AND TO TAKE THAT WORK BEYOND OUR CITY.” Cyril Stewart President, Board of Directors FY19 Nashville Civic Design Center

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