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Building Your Network of Park Advocates for Stronger Budgets
Learn how park and rec professionals are harnessing the current enthusiasm about parks and directing it toward action.
We Walk PHL
This free walking program promotes healthy lifestyles and increases the use of local parks. Active Parks case study platform sponsored by REI.
Pursuing Equity Goals with Citywide Park Nonprofits
Learn from your peers about citywide park nonprofits, including how they got started, their relationship with the city and other groups, funding, and keys to s…
Park Study Tour: Austin, TX
Thanks to our sponsors and partners: KOMPAN, Agency Landscape + Planning, The Trail Foundation, WRT, Austin Parks & Recreation, and City of Austin.
Using Climate Mitigation and Disaster Relief Funds to Build Resilient Communities
Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and more severe. Parks and green spaces that are designed for resilience play an important role in preventin…
Memorandum of Understanding Between Mayor’s Office of Community Empowerment & Philadelphia Department of Human Services
MOU builds opportunities for disconnected young people and returning citizens, creating promising futures by tackling environmental challenges.
MOU Between Mayor’s Office of Community Empowerment & Opportunity and Philadelphia Parks and Recreation
Agreement between Philly Parks & Rec Dept. and PowerCorpsPHL, an AmeriCorps initiative that engages “Opportunity Youth” in advancing their lives through servic…
Funding Brownfields to Parks
Learn about projects that have successfully funded transforming brownfields into parks and positively impacted their surrounding communities.
City Parks Alliance Statement on Racial Equity and Justice
We must reexamine and recommit to our values as people, and as institutions, and do better collectively to end racism and seek justice.
Active Parks, Healthy Cities: Increasing Physical Activity Among Teen Girls and Seniors
This webinar explores creative models and programs that engage teen girls and seniors in physical activity in their parks and community spaces.
New York City: Framework for an Equitable Future
NYC Parks analyzed capital investment data from the past 20 years and established long-term community partnerships that sustain investment in the city’s parks.
Unified School District MOU
Memorandum of understanding between the listed organizations for the shared use of sports fields under the ownership of the San Francisco Unified School Distri…
Resources
Resources for Park and Recreation Professionals With help from our members and research partners, we make the following resources and tools available to equ…
Job Bank
Urban Park and Recreation Employment Opportunities If you love parks, our nationwide job bank could be the door to your dream job with park-related organizati…
Fit2Play
Fit2Play is an MDPROS park-based afterschool health and wellness program promoting healthy weight and cardiovascular health.
City Parks Alliance Urges the Incoming Biden Administration to Revoke the Interior Secretarial Order 3388 and Direct Funding to Cities as Intended
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the outgoing Trump administration continued implementation of its Interior Secretarial Order 3388 making changes to Land and Water Co…
Mayors for Parks
Champions for Urban Park FundingThe Mayor for Parks Coalition, a project of the City Parks Alliance, is a national, bipartisan coalition of mayors from large a…
The Movement for Black Lives & Building Belonging in Parks
As uprisings against police brutality and structural racism swept the country, Fort Greene Park emerged as a central location for protest gatherings in Brookly…
Open Letter to City Council Supporting Parks Funding for COVID Recovery
Philly Parks Alliance seek co-signers supporting funding for essential services for communities disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.