Search for Shelter Design Charrette

Past Boards 2021-2025

2025 Search for Shelter

Five agencies brought a wide range of projects at varying stages of development for our volunteers to tackle to the 2025 Search for Shelter design event. View their final boards in the gallery below.

2025 Agencies: Asian American Business Network, Asian Media Alliance, Kootasca Community Action, St. Paul Downtown Alliance, and YouthLink.

Search for Shelter 2024

Thank you to the five agencies who worked with our volunteers at the 2024 Search for Shelter design event. View their final boards in the adjacent gallery.

2024 agencies: Lyndale Neighborhood Association, Our Savior’s Lutheran, Redeemer Center for Life, Simpson Housing Services, and Touchstone Mental Health.

Search for Shelter 2023

Volunteers worked with five agencies  at the 2023 Search for Shelter design event. View their final boards in the adjacent gallery.

2023 agencies: Hamline Midway Coalition, Interfaith Action of Greater St. Paul, Lyndale Neighborhood Association, Solid Ground, and Stepping On Up.

Search for Shelter 2022

North Country Cooperative Foundation, PRG, Inc., Riverton Community Housing, Smart North, and the St. Paul Public Housing Authority brought design challenges to our volunteers for Search for Shelter 2022.

View the final boards in the adjacent gallery.

Search for Shelter 2021

The COVID pandemic forced Search for Shelter into the virtual world, but that expanded both volunteer and agency participation! Teams participated from Europe, and more than twice the normal number of volunteers gave their time to solving design challenges for ten housing nonprofits during this unique time.

View the final boards in the adjacent gallery. Agencies served in 2021: Alliance Housing, Eagle Bend Economic Development Corporation, Haven Housing, Metta Meditation Center, NRRC, People Incorporated, the Public Housing Authority of St. Paul, Servants of Shelter of Koochiching County, Two Harbors HRA, and Women’s Advocates.