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.

Member Exclusive
Request for Proposals
Denver Parks and Recreation RFP for Park Stewardship Crews
Denver Parks and Recreation
This RFP seeks organizations that provide volunteers, youth, and pre-apprenticeship crews for park stewardship projects.
Member Exclusive
Agreement
Denver Parks and Recreation Letter of Partnership
Denver Parks and Recreation
This informal letter outlines roles, responsibilities, and expectations for partnership between the department and Sloan's Lake Park Foundation.
Report
Surfacing Solutions: How Addressing Conflict and Reframing Challenges as Opportunities Can Create More Equitable and Sustainable Parks
Park People
Takeaways on trends, challenges and strategic directions in Canadian city parks in 2023.
Report
Key Park Equity Policies: Toward a 10-Minute Walk Park Equity Policy Framework
Trust for Public Land
This report outlines policy solutions and examples that help create scaled, sustainable change and address the park equity divide.
Report
Cornerstone Parks Reports on Stewardship and Park Use
Park People
This research from Canada shows that volunteer stewardship in large urban parks makes people happier and healthier and points to the need for equity.
Report
The Common Ground Framework: Building community power through park and green space engagement
Trust for Public Land
This paper explores how parks and green spaces can increase a community’s power, particularly communities of historically excluded groups.
Report
Examining facilitators and challenges to implementing equitable green space policies: Lessons from Los Angeles County
Journal of Urban Affairs by co-authors: Alessandro Rigolon, The University of Utah, and and Jon Christensen, University of California, Los Angeles
This research report investigates facilitators and challenges of implementing equitable green space policies in Los Angeles County.
Report
Austin Adopt-a-Park Program: Technical Assistance Panel Report
Urban Land Institute Cohort for Park Equity
Urban Land Institute (ULI) Austin, as part of the ULI Cohort for Park Equity, convened a panel of experts to examine equity issues as they relate to the city’s…
Report
What Makes Parks Safe?
Dr. Anna Barker and Professor George Holmes (University of Leeds) with Dr Rizwana Alam, Lauren Cape-Davenhill, Dr Sally Osei-Appiah and Dr. Sibylla Warrington Brown, in collaboration with West Yorkshire Combined Authority
This research report promotes the use of parks by women and girls, by understanding and responding to the barriers to feeling safe.
Member Exclusive
Policy
Austin Parks and Recreation Department Partnership Levels
City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department
This document categorizes and describes the various partnership levels the parks department has with different organizations and community groups.