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Supporting Adaptive Public Spaces in the Pandemic and Beyond
Please join your grantmaking peers for the next Funders Learning Network event, a conversation with the Knight Foundation as they share findings from their rec…
How to Capitalize on Park Demand after COVID: Springing Open Safely
With warmer temperatures springing wide open, pent-up demand for parks offers opportunities to increase park use and build strong support for parks through fri…
Partnership Agreement of Portland Parks & Recreation and The Forest Park Conservancy
Key assumptions outlined for how Forest Park Conservancy works cooperatively with city agency to care for a 5,000+ acre park with 70+ miles of trails.
Recommendations to Create a 21st Century Civilian Climate Corps
How to engage thousands of young Americans in community improvement, conservation and resilience projects.
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The Brickline Greenway: Charting a Path towards Social Equity in St. Louis
With cities everywhere focused squarely on equity issues right now, it is a hopeful time for those in St. Louis who’ve been advocating for, funding, and buildi…
Fighting the winter “blahs” in Cleveland: embracing the season for our collective wellbeing
By: Nelson Beckford
In traditional cultures, the cycle of the seasons is recognized and celebrated with ceremonies. These ceremonies and traditions encourage connection to people …
Engage Protect Connect
Engage, Connect, Protect highlights the need to create opportunities to engage with diverse youth as the next generation of environmental stewards through cult…
Youth Employment in Parks
Are you looking for innovative and productive ways to engage your community with your park? Share ideas with your peers during our next peer-to-peer conversati…
The Play Fair Campaign
This conversation revolved around how city-wide park nonprofit organizations are positioning themselves in relation to their public and nonprofit partners and …
Turning Crisis into Opportunity
As public sector budgets face significant cuts, how are citywide park nonprofits pivoting to respond? Join us for a conversation with your nonprofit peers who …
Creative Strategies for Generating Revenue
City Parks Alliance is hosting a joint Peer-to-Peer meeting for Nonprofit Park Operators + Citywide Park Nonprofits. Raising revenue is on everybody’s mind, so…
Managing in Uncertainty
Please join us for a peer-to-peer conversation for nonprofit park operators hosted by Eric Landau with Brooklyn Bridge Park. This is a unique opportunity for n…
Pandemic Response and Recovery
This session will be curated later this Spring to highlight the innovative ways that leaders are placing parks at the center of recovery efforts. Speakers will…
Creating Culturally Relevant Programming
When communities can help design programming in their parks and open spaces, those spaces become well-loved gathering places that reflect the community's uniqu…
Effective Cross-Agency Collaboration on Green Infrastructure
Climate change presents unique challenges to cities, and these challenges increasingly demand innovative solutions and partnerships. Join us to hear how parks …
Resilient Waterfronts
As extreme weather events become more frequent and sea level rise accelerates, coastal and Great Lakes communities, in particular, are under increasing threat …
Monuments: Sharing Your Stories on Reinterpreting Park Narratives
CPA is exploring a partnership with Monuments Lab to engage conference participants in sharing stories on how they are reinterpreting historic narratives in th…
Youth: How to Capture the Voice of Your Communities
In late 2018, our friend Khobi was an innocent victim of gang violence. We were already working on community outreach and park design for St. Charles Park, but…