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.

Technical Tool
Park Friends Survey
Partnership for Providence Parks (P3)
Survey in Providence to create a definition of Park Friends Groups, identify services they provide and uncover needs to sustain them into the future.
Report
2020 Menino Survey of Mayors
Boston University Initiative on Cities
Mayors have had to deal with COVID-19’s consequences and its impact on their cities' future. Between June and August 2020 this Survey asked 130 mayors about th…
Member Exclusive
Agreement
Memorandum of Understanding Between Verde Forest Park Conservancy, West Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District, and Portland Parks & Recreation
Forest Park Conservancy
An MOU that shows how to build a partnership model to improve restoration practices and achieve equity outcomes that can be replicated by other orgs.
Technical Tool
East Bay Regional Park District FEMA Application
East Bay Regional Park District
A model application for FEMA funds following 2005 rain storms at the Great House Portal, when the Black Diamond Mines started caving in.
Report
Extreme Weather Mitigation in the Las Cruces Infill District Through Green Stormwater Infrastructure
Las Cruces Infill District
A report describing how a $1.8 million investment in trees supported by green infrastructure will double the Infill District's shade canopy while also conservi…
Technical Tool
East Bay Regional Park District Hazard Mitigation Grant Program Project Subapplication
East Bay Regional Park District
Technical Tool
East Bay Regional Park District Pre-Disaster and Flood Mitigation Assist
East Bay Regional Park District
Member Exclusive
Report
Process of Partnership Development Between Verde Landscape, Forest Park Conservancy, West Multnomah Soil, Water Conservation District, and Portland Parks and Recreation
Forest Park Conservancy
Documents the process in which four organizations formed a partnership to establish a model to achieve common and individual goals related to economic and work…
Technical Tool
2020 Funding Guide
GameTime.com: A Playcore Company
Useful list of funding sources to access resources to plan, build, and program parks and other communities assets.
Member Exclusive
Technical Tool
Placemaking for an Aging Population: Guidelines for Senior-Friendly Parks
Luskin School of Public Affairs
People over age 65 in the U.S. remain highly underserved in regards to parks. This report draws from different sources to understand how parks can be best desi…