SUSTAINABLE DESIGN COLLABORATIVE ATLANTA (SDCA) 
Our Vision:
Creating enhanced communities through equal access to cross-disciplinary sustainable design solutions.
Our Mission:
To provide a means for pooling talent, sharing ideas, and developing programs to better the community through integrative solutions for the built environment.
What we Do:
Our cross-disciplinary approach focuses on providing our partners, whose missions often emphasize sustainability and community enhancement, with a completed, integrated schematic design vision.
Our Previous Clients:
Our clients have been reflective of both our teams flexible range and the non-profit organizations of the Atlanta Metropolitan Region:  Decatur Cooperative Ministry (Decatur), Our Giving Garden (Mableton), Solomons Temple (Atlanta), ArtsNow (collaboration with Barrow County School System), Hagar Civilization Training Missionary (Vine City), Friends of Refugees (Chamblee), The Lifecycle Building Center (East Point), the Lithonia Woman’s Club (Lithonia) and a design for Adams Park and Recreation Center (Atlanta). Detailed information about these projects and their final presentations can be found at our website - www.sdcatlanta.org.
The SDCA Board of Directors is soliciting qualified projects and proposals for our 2026 project. The objective of this Request for Proposal is to locate an organization that will provide the best overall value to SDCA. As a design-focused non-profit organization, we are interested in locating non-profit or community-based organizations in which SDCA will perform Design Development-specific activities, and are accepting submissions in response to this Request for Proposal. Our purpose is to obtain information that will allow SDCA to qualify organizations to:

1. Achieve a high-performance, Sustainable Design opportunity.
2. Assist in generating a quality deliverable through a clear Design process.
3. Receive added value from SDCA in terms of excellence in Product and Service.
4. Establish a partnership with SDCA for future growth.

Proposed Schedule of Events 2026
    a. February 2nd                    5:00 PM; Deadline to Submit Proposal to SDCA (See below submission requirements)
    b. February 16th                   SDCA Proposal Short List Announced (Interviews will follow)
    c. March 7th                          Project Kick-Off Meeting
    d. March – May 31                Production of Deliverables
    e. June (TBD)                          Presentation to Client

Qualification Review Process: Provide a detailed description of your group and/or organization along with the specific project you are requesting support for. In addition to the basic parameters of scope and scale, we want to understand how your group or organization, and this project, foster community enrichment and create value. Describe how your project will incorporate sustainable practices to the fullest extent. Nonprofit organizations are encouraged to apply. 

Submission Questions:

1. Provide a history and brief background on your organization.
2. Provide drawings or sketches of your property (building(s) and/or land).
3. What are the goals of your organization and their relation to your proposed project?
4. How do you envision using our support to further the implementation of your proposed project?
5. What are some of your organization’s recent accomplishments/successes?
6. How do you feel our involvement in your project will help your goals and the community?
7. Our efforts will need your involvement and ongoing commitment. Select a minimum of two people who will be dedicated to working with us on this project and state their qualifications. Will they commit to attending all charrettes, meetings, and how will they contribute to the project development?

Review Process:
Once all responses/proposals have been received, our review committee will study each proposed project for the following:

1. Legitimacy of the group and project
2. Enrichment of the community, the group, and sustainability
3. Perceived effectiveness of the project
4. Commitment to the project and its implementation

Submit proposals to: [email protected]
 
Further clarifications or an interview may be requested of the finalists. The Committee will then make a final decision and notify all responders no later than Monday March 2nd, 2026. Work will then commence with a Kick-Off meeting per the above date.  If you have any questions or comments, please direct them to:

• Brent Redmon, SDCA Chair
• Reed Thomas, SDCA Vice-Chair
• Liset Robinson, SDCA Executive Director

Center for Innovative Teaching Destination Playground in front of Arts Now Building, SDCAtlanta's 2020 project

Please join us this Saturday April 17th for our charette at Our Giving Garden at 10am. Please bring your creative minds, inspirational imagery, and your own supplies to sketch and draw. 
If you are unable to attend the charette, we would still love for you to help us with deliverables. 

As always, please feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions or concerns.
Look forward to see you there!