The Trust for Public Land’s Center for City Park Excellence performed a study for the Association of Bay Area Governments, one component of which was identifying examples of how recently completed infill parks were financed. We will be publishing each of the four case studies (see the first here and the second here), with Oakland’s remarkable FROG Park [...]
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How can park agencies and park advocacy groups better cultivate volunteers? A New York Times article touches just on this and we have some thoughts on how this connects to parks. In some cities, such as Portland and Seattle, parks benefit from a huge amount of yearly volunteer hours. In Philadelphia, TPL estimated that the [...]
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The Austin Parks Foundation just hosted an event that combined volunteering and concert programming. Through a partnership with CliffBar, REI and Keep Austin Beautiful, volunteers showed up to clean up the Barton Creek Greenway and then were treated to a concert by nationally known Austin artist Ben Kweller. (Cliff’s Greenotes program helps artists become more [...]
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