Each City Parks Alliance program has clearly defined learning objectives and brings together practitioners across sectors to learn and innovate together.
Volunteers are the backbone of city parks, supporting everything from community cleanups to long-term stewardship. Then there are super-volunteers, community leaders who dream up improvement project ideas, rally fellow volunteers,…
Greater & Greener is the only conference dedicated to exploring the full potential of parks as city-building tools. It’s a conference for doers from government, nonprofits, and communities who are…
Event format: WorkshopParks serve urban residents of every age, race, and background, so meaningful engagement is essential to build park systems that meet community needs. But engagement can mean different…
Greater & Greener is a conference unlike any other. With nearly as many sessions outside as in, it offers an immersive, energizing, and innovative learning experience, focused on the issues that…
Break down the components of a successful tax referendum to secure long-term funding for your park system.Securing funding for parks is a major challenge, especially with shifts in federal funding…
Event type: Peer ConversationDesigning and maintaining parks for resilience and adaptability is increasingly complex as climate impacts evolve, from flooding and sea level rise to drought, wildfires, and biodiversity loss.…
Houston’s urban parks and green spaces are bold, innovative, and deeply rooted in community engagement.
Event type: WebinarParks are important allies for addressing climate change and protecting ecosystems, but making a real impact takes a systemwide, strategic approach through partnerships, inter-agency collaboration, and data collection.In…