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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…
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…
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…
The Movement for Black Lives & Building Belonging in Parks
As uprisings against police brutality and structural racism swept the country, Fort Greene Park emerged as a central location for protest gatherings in Brookly…
Hot, Wet, and Racist: Democratizing Data for Climate Justice
Join us for Hot, Wet, and Racist: Democratizing Data for Systems Change and more than a dozen other sessions during the Summer Series.
Being Black and Brown Outside: Connecting Our Youth with Nature
Between the pandemic and civil unrest, now more than ever, members of black, indigenous and communities of color need to utilize nature and outdoor spaces to h…
Parks Driving Large-Scale Equitable Development
There is broad consensus in the urban parks field that every resident deserves access to quality parks and recreation resources close to home. But there is le…
Building a Diverse Workforce for 21st Century Parks
For decades, environmental and parks organizations have struggled to diversify their staff and leadership. Where they have diversified, people of color often c…
An Introduction to City Parks Alliance’s Equitable Park Funding Hub
Join us for an introduction to the Hub, including what types of funding sources are included, how to utilize it, and examples of how cities have used these fun…
Low-Income Communities Need Park Funding Too | Next City
It is crucial to ensure that all communities receive the benefits of parks. City managers and park professionals interested in investing in these results shoul…
Memorandum of Understanding Between Verde Forest Park Conservancy, West Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District, and Portland Parks & Recreation
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.
City Parks Alliance: Summer Series 2021
Click here for all information on the Summer Series happening June 14-25, 2021!
Process of Partnership Development Between Verde Landscape, Forest Park Conservancy, West Multnomah Soil, Water Conservation District, and Portland Parks and Recreation
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…
Investing for Equitable Outcomes
Exclusively for grantmaking foundations, we'll discuss challenges around inclusive development, mitigating gentrification, and catalyzing cross-sector partners…
Effective Park Stewardship Programs in Marginalized Communities
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…
City Parks Alliance Launches Equitable Park Funding Hub to Help Users Explore More Than 50 Federal, State, and Local Park Funding Strategies
Support for this work was provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Nina Scarito Park
This $2.9 million park project was made possible through a combination of federal, state, city and private funds. Over 500 hours were volunteered by local resi…
Manchester Street Park
Through a series of partnerships, the city of Lawrence developed a former industrial site into a five-acre community park, leveraging more than $3.7 million to…
Placemaking for an Aging Population: Guidelines for Senior-Friendly Parks
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…
