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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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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. One project that stood out during our conversation was the renovation of St.