Design Residency will provide you with customized coaching, tools, and financial support to accelerate the design and early implementation of a scalable equity-centered solution.
Design Residency offers three distinct pathways of support:
- Design Residency: Ventures (for participants launching non-school ventures)
- Design Residency: New Start Charters (for participants launching new schools)
- Design Residency: School Transformations (for participants transforming existing schools)
Design Residency is the third and final entry point into the CityBridge Incubator aimed at creating excellent and equitable schools and educational ventures.
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“My experience with CityBridge was very personalized. The support was based on what I needed, and the connections CityBridge made were tailored for my specific journey.” —Former CityBridge Entrepreneur
What You Will Do
- Activate principles of equitable design as you build your solution
- Participate in cohort-based learning with a community of like-minded leaders
- Engage in city-wide coalition building to increase support for your solution
- Develop a robust, high-quality final deliverable (charter application, business plan, or scalable program model)
What You Will Get
- A grant for start-up expenses
- Individualized identity-affirming, strengths-based coaching
- Intensive, customized support to codify your solution
- A substantial multi-year investment for implementation (subject to the success of your solution)
- Access to a vibrant and committed community
Who Should Apply
Entrepreneurs, educators, or education-adjacent professionals across Washington, DC who have:
- Met our criteria
- Identified, defined, and explored a problem and a solution
- Piloted or tested at least one aspect of their solution
- A deep commitment to DC’s young people