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Pullman Peace Playground Project
The story of a neighborhood struggling with poverty and gun violence that rallied to construct a playground. This and other case studies sponsored by REI.
Restoring Pittsburgh Parks
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and the City of Pittsburgh plan for equity in every park in every neighborhood in Pittsburgh.
Confluence Park
Once an industrial dumping ground, Confluence Park is now the premier outdoor recreation destination and educational resource for the city of Denver.
Active Parks, Healthy Cities: Increasing Physical Activity Among Teen Girls and Seniors
This webinar explores creative models and programs that engage teen girls and seniors in physical activity in their parks and community spaces.
Greening without Gentrification: Learning from Parks-Related Anti-Displacement Strategies Nationwide
Results shared of an ongoing study to identify and classify parks-related anti-displacement strategies in marginalized neighborhoods in 19 cities.
How Cities Like Birmingham, Alabama, Are Unlocking New Funding for Parks and Green Space
By: Matthew EldridgeArticle from Urban Institute on how connecting parks to social benefits can generate new support and funding.
Mitigating the Effects of Fees on Low-Income Residents
Explore the equity implications of park fees and explore creative models that ensure all park users, regardless of income, can access park resources.
Active Parks, Healthy Cities Toolkit
Share Active Parks, Healthy Cities with your colleagues, elected officials, local agencies, and partners.
Greater & Greener 2022
Greater & Greener 2022: An International Urban Parks Conference comes to Philadelphia, PA from June 18-21, 2022.
Racial Equity Action Plan
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) has been working on equity, inclusion and diversity since 2011. Currently, three areas of work – Racial Equity…
Recreation Center Funding Equity Matrix – Dollars
This is an equity matrix used by MPRB to make decisions on funding allocation for recreation centers.
Healthy Development Without Displacement
In this new paper, we explore: What can people working on “healthy community” issues—like active transportation, parks, healthy food, planning, public health, …
Equity Criteria for Allocating Recreation Center Funding
In building a more equitable park system, it is important for the MPRB to target investment of public funds into parks in racially diverse and low-income neigh…
Equity Criteria for Capital and Rehabilitation — Neighborhood and Regional Park Project
The City of Minneapolis and the Park and Recreation Board enacted 20 Year Neighborhood and Regional Park Plan ordinances to achieve a shared goal of closing a …
Criteria-Based System for MPRB Capital and Rehabilitation Project Scheduling
In selecting projects to be funded by the 20 Year Neighborhood Parks Funding Plan, the MPRB has developed a set of equity-based criteria for prioritizing capit…
Criteria Based System for MPRB Regional Park and Trail Capital Project Scheduling
This document outlines an approach for quantifiably evaluating regional parks and trails, in order to ensure that investments are equitably targeted and suppor…
A New Way of Working for Cities
This one-page flyer outlines the Reimagining the Civic Commons project, a national initiative to foster engagement, equity, environmental sustainability, and e…
Workforce Equity in Parks and Recreation
Does the work of your park organization or agency reflect the priorities of the communities you serve? Across the country, urban park practitioners know that i…
Parks and Inclusive Economic Development
Investing in high-quality parks often leads to significant economic development in surrounding communities with new real estate and commercial investments and …