Accountability, Management and Parks And Recreation

Programming for Success in Parks and Recreation

Let's Talk Parks

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Parks and Recreation programs are one of the key ways of delivering service to thousands of community members every year. In this conversation, Becky sits down with Chris Bass (Parks & Recreation Director, City of Douglasville) to discuss the in’s and out’s of programming for success.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Development Budgeting Management

Opportunities to Connect Urban Conservation and Vacant Land Stewardship

Center for Community Progress

JANUARY 6, 2025

According to the National Land Bank Networks 2023 State of Land Banking Survey, vacant lots account for 86 percent of all land bank properties and half of all survey respondents listed vacant land stewardship as one of their top priorities. What do urban land conservancies do?

Stewardship

Stewardship Parks And Recreation Community Development Fundraising

CAPRA Volunteers: Together We Grow Parks and Recreation — Episode 128

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

NRPA's Commission for Accreditation of Park and Recreation Agencies (CAPRA), is the only national accreditation of park and recreation agencies and is a valuable measure of an agency’s overall quality of operation, management and service to the community. Blog Post: What Does It Mean To Be a CAPRA Volunteer?

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Campaign Coordinator Community Programs

Safely Celebrate Earth Day with Parks and Recreation — Episode 064

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

APRIL 21, 2020

On today’s episode, we’re joined by three dedicated and creative staff members of the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department in Ohio to talk about the virtual Earth Day celebrations they have planned so their community can learn more about the environment around them and how to protect it.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Accountability Coordinator Laws

Strategies for Landing Your Dream Job in Parks & Recreation

Let's Talk Parks

MARCH 2, 2022

Thanks for your understanding Becky: Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Let’s Talk Parks. This is Becky Dunlap and Marissa Moravec joining you for a conversation around the state of jobs in parks and recreation. The Show [Transcript]. Note: The transcript below is an abbreviated version of the podcast.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Budgeting Nonprofit Operations

How to build awareness of flood risk and gain buy-in for flood control measures

American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

What’s missing from current methods of managing flood risk? To understand how local governments can better manage flood risk, it is important to understand how this work is done at present. annual chance (500-year) flood events based on historic data. The 1% and 0.2% Current extreme rainfall events are often beyond the 1% or 0.2%

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Local Government Disaster Response Management

Where in the Organization Chart Does Your Grant Professional Belong?

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 12, 2023

Some metropolitan cities have grant professionals embedded in multiple departments – police, fire, parks and recreation, and transportation. Some metropolitan cities have grant professionals embedded in multiple departments – police, fire, parks and recreation, and transportation. Where do you belong in your organization?

Fundraising

Fundraising Parks And Recreation Grant Writer Strategic Planning

Fresh Ideas to Recruit Seasonal Employees

Let's Talk Parks

MAY 6, 2021

As summer approaches, agencies are preparing to open their pools, recreation centers, and facilities to the public in 2021. Prioritizing the safety of your employees and guests while also creating a memorable experience continues to be a challenge for recreation professionals. The reason for the shortages?

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Social Media Transportation Implementation

The Plot: Not against Pickleball in Denver | Parks planning and making objective decisions about facilities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2023

Amateur pickleball players play mixed double matches during the Professional Pickleball Association (PPA) Baird Wealth Management Open at the Lindner Family Tennis Center, September 11, 2022, Mason, Ohio. The article discussed how a pickleball enthusiastic lawyer submitted a 37 page legal appeal for the parks department decision.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Development Transportation Management

Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Four | Seasonality, Activation and Public Art as an element of facilities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 26, 2024

For example the Salt Lake City park master plan, ReImagine Nature , does discuss programming and activation. Still, a majority of parks master plans don't address these items in a systematic enough way. The park allows all community members to enjoy the space simultaneously. Not so much public art. Seasonality.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Press Release Strategic Planning Engagement

Introducing: The Zencity 360 Comms Toolkit

zencity

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

If a new park has been built and no one knows about it, does the park exist? We don’t mean to get too philosophical here; the answer is obviously yes, the park exists. Publishing Tool Imagine this: You’ve been alerted by Zencity 360 to a peak in negative sentiment around waste management.

Press Release

Press Release Social Media Parks And Recreation Communications

Change takes a long time: Parks edition

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Today we had a ribbon cutting for the new Fabian Lakeside Pavilion at Sugar House Park in Salt Lake, where I am on the board. The Park is about 70 years old, a regional park, and unusually, owned by the City and County jointly but overseen by an independent board. One of seven pavilions, they are about 60 years old.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Engagement Transportation Accountability

What’s the deal with rural land banks? A Q&A with West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett

Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

To account for these limitations, we’re seeing land banks step in as the property developer. Addressing vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated (VAD) properties—what some call “ blighted ” properties—is not just a “city” problem. We spoke with Taylor Bennett , Executive Director of the West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation (WVLSC).

Stewardship

Stewardship Legislation Advocacy Parks And Recreation

Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

TransMilenio bus routes. Photo by Julio Plaza for the New York Times. Transformative projects like TransMilenio require long-term “cathedral thinking.” They don’t conform to election cycles. They’re not the work of any single person. They’re like cities themselves: endless, incremental, evolving and collective.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Elected Officials Implementation Development

20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

This entry became very long, so I broke it up. This entry became very long, so I broke it up. There are plenty of posts I don't remember writing!) I got tired of reading over and over of the displacement of arts groups and the like.

Transportation

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning

Harry P. Hatry, Leader and Performance Management Pioneer, dies at 92

Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Harry Hatry, a pioneer of great renown in the field of performance management died on February 20th from complications resulting from pneumonia. Hatry, the renowned, respected and remarkable leader in the world of #performancemanagement had died, at age 92, from complications that followed a case of pneumonia.

Management

Management Public Administration Parks And Recreation Public Policy

Public Administration Today

Programming for Success in Parks and Recreation

Opportunities to Connect Urban Conservation and Vacant Land Stewardship

Trending Sources

CAPRA Volunteers: Together We Grow Parks and Recreation — Episode 128

Safely Celebrate Earth Day with Parks and Recreation — Episode 064

Strategies for Landing Your Dream Job in Parks & Recreation

How to build awareness of flood risk and gain buy-in for flood control measures

Where in the Organization Chart Does Your Grant Professional Belong?

Fresh Ideas to Recruit Seasonal Employees

The Plot: Not against Pickleball in Denver | Parks planning and making objective decisions about facilities

Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Four | Seasonality, Activation and Public Art as an element of facilities

Introducing: The Zencity 360 Comms Toolkit

Change takes a long time: Parks edition

What’s the deal with rural land banks? A Q&A with West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett

Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Harry P. Hatry, Leader and Performance Management Pioneer, dies at 92

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