Resources

Resources for Park and Recreation Professionals

With help from our members and research partners, we make the following resources and tools available to equip parks and recreation departments, municipalities, urban design and landscape architecture firms, and advocacy organizations to enhance capacity and build equitable, healthy, and engaged communities.

Report
Creative Placemaking Guide
The Trust for Public Land, City Parks Alliance
This handy guide outlines the definition of creative placemaking and how it can make for better parks and stronger communities.
Report
Closing the Gap: Public and Private Funding Strategies for Neighborhood Parks
Public and Private Funding Strategies for Neighborhood Parks
Report
A Smart Investment for America’s Health, Economy, and Environment
City Parks Alliance
This report highlights the physical, mental, and environmental benefits that city parks provide and demonstrates how funds from the LWCF’s Outdoor Recreation L…
Technical Tool
Active Parks, Healthy Cities Toolkit
City Parks Alliance
Share Active Parks, Healthy Cities with your colleagues, elected officials, local agencies, and partners.
Member Exclusive
Technical Tool
Public Skatepark Development Guide
This website contains a 5-step development guide for public skateparks, with sections outlining how to establish a vision, advocacy, fundraising, design, and m…
Report
Smart Investment for Health, the Economy, and the Environment
City Parks Alliance
City parks play a vital role in the social, economic and physical well-being of America’s cities and their residents.
Member Exclusive
Agreement
Westminster Little Dry Creek InterGovernmental Agreement
City of Westminster
This is an inter-governmental agreement between the City of Westminster, the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District and Adams County regarding the design, c…
Member Exclusive
Agreement
Wood River Valley MOU
City of Ketchum Parks and Recreation Department
Memorandum of understanding regarding the conservation and protection of the Wood River Valley, as well as the collaborative dissemination of educational mater…
Member Exclusive
Agreement
Youth Entrepreneurship Program MOU Miami
City of North Miami Parks and Recreation
Memorandum of understanding between the listed organizations for the shared implementation of a Youth Entrepreneurship Program (established by the Advocacy Tru…
Member Exclusive
Agreement
Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Lease Agreement
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, Inc.
Lease agreement outlining the dissolution of the MOU between the listed organizations and the continuation of lease agreements.