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How a Group of Teens Is Bringing a Skatepark To Their Community — Episode 082

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

What kinds of fundraising activities were the most successful. How they have engaged the community with the project. What advice they would give park and recreation professionals who are thinking about a project like this for a community space. What their initial planning process looked like.

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National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Arts Festival and fundraiser, Uintah Elementary School, Salt Lake City. Although many of the schools do art festivals in the Spring, doing great projects as fundraisers. Most figure that PTAs suffice, but again, PTAs are mostly comprised of parents of schoolchildren, not interested parties without children. It dates to the 1980s.

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Empowering Change: How Grant Writing Certification Transforms Nonprofits and Communities

Grant Central USA

They freelance writers create narratives that engage readers emotionally, making a stronger connection with the audience. Consistency They ensure consistency in messaging across different grant applications, fundraising materials, and public communications.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The committees would concern design and maintenance, business development and recruitment, organizational development including fundraising and organizational communications, and what the model calls "promotion," which includes generally marketing of the building/district, special events and programming, and cross promotion between businesses.

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The Role of Philanthropy in Parks

Park Leaders

Her team works closely with the National Park Service and the National Park Friends Alliance to advance innovation, inclusion, and community engagement. Sarah Unz, who oversees strategic partnerships at the National Park Foundation, offered a broader perspective on how collaboration fuels progress across the National Park System.

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How One Library Got All the Stock Photos It Needs for Promotions in Just One Day!

Super Library Marketing

Photo courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library At the Library Marketing and Communications Conference this past November, I watched as Jody Lazar , Director of Community Engagement at Winter Park Library in Florida made half a dozen mouths drop to the floor.

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Martin Luther King Day

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It was initially under the umbrella of The Boston Foundation, and organizers said Friday that the institutions will continue to be close partners after Embrace Boston takes over fundraising and other responsibilities and moves to its own offices. They were kind enough to send the draft to me, although it's in my slush pile to read still.