The Hideo Sasaki Foundation’s 2024-2025 Design Grants Research Report is now available. Our Design Grants advance equity in design, funding community experts to create design solutions for challenges in their neighborhoods. This sixth cohort explored innovative solutions to address environmental justice, inclusive planning processes, and community land use.

In June 2024, after an open call for proposals and our annual Pitch Night, we awarded $45,000 to three community-based research teams in Mission Hill, Dorchester, and Chinatown. Teams spent the next ten months advancing their projects. During the grant period, they had the opportunity to connect with designers, who shared their expertise to support the projects. Project benefits are already visible in their respective communities, and the open source research serves as a resource for communities tackling similar issues, in Greater Boston and beyond.

And stay tuned: our 2025-2026 Design Grants cohort is hard at work, wrapping up their projects next month. We’ll share more in our newsletter this summer.