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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.

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  • Member Exclusive
    Technical Tool

    Guide to Activate Undeveloped Parks of Austin

    Austin Parks and Recreation and Central Texas Interfaith, Design Workshop

    This is a road map for community members to temporarily activate undeveloped park sites in Austin.

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    Report

    Pathways to Play: Community School Parks Program Report

    Los Angeles Park Foundation

    This report examines the Community School Park (CSP) program's effectiveness to increase use of school campuses for public recreation during periods when schoo…

  • Report

    Nature-Based Solutions for Managing Stormwater in Parks

    City Parks Alliance

    This report from a cohort of parks and stormwater agency leaders from eight cities informs how to increase collaboration between the parks and stormwater manag…

  • Member Exclusive
    Agreement

    GSI Conservation Easement Funding Agreement Template

    Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District

    Template for conservation easement funding agreements for green stormwater infrastructure from the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.

  • Report

    Transit to parks initiatives in the U.S. and Canada: Practitioners’ perspectives

    Transport Policy

    This study explores motivations, facilitators, and challenges related to transit to parks initiatives in the U.S. and Canada.

  • Report

    Riding transit to parks in Utah: Motivations, constraints, negotiations, and policy recommendations

    Transportation Research

    This research studied the motivations, constraints, negotiations, and policy changes for riding transit to parks in Utah’s Wasatch Front region.

  • Report

    Leading Together: A New Model for Thriving State Parks

    Potrero Group

    This report examines how a new nonprofit partner is enhancing the CA park system's ability to meet unprecedented challenges and scale innovation.

  • Member Exclusive
    Agreement

    Master Community Food Habitat Agreement

    Denver Urban Gardens

    This is a land use agreement template used by Denver Urban Gardens as an initial framework upon which all of their agreements are built.

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