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Programming for Success in Parks and Recreation

Let's Talk Parks

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.

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Opportunities to Connect Urban Conservation and Vacant Land Stewardship

Center for Community Progress

A land conservancy can maintain and permanently protect vacant land that has natural, recreational, scenic, historical, or agricultural value. A land conservancy can maintain and permanently protect vacant land that has natural, recreational, scenic, historical, or agricultural value. What do urban land conservancies do?

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Sustainability and Environmental Resilience in Parks — Episode 163

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

Sustainability and Environmental Resilience in Parks — Episode 163 On today’s episode of Open Space Radio, I’m excited to share our collab episode with GovLove Podcast, which we recorded live back in October at the 2024 NRPA Annual Conference. This was our first live episode recording — with an audience.

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ARPA and Public Spaces: How Cities are Investing in Places to Live, Work and Play

NLC (National League of Cities)

Across America, public parks and recreational spaces have long offered free-to-low-cost opportunities for visitors and residents to engage in local communities. During the pandemic, the value of these spaces as an accessible public amenity became even more apparent.

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Community safety partnership for MacArthur Park in Los Angeles?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) Steve Lopez of the LA Times has been following the decline of MacArthur Park in LA (" Can MacArthur Park be saved? The tough task of policing MacArthur Park ," " I cant deal with life sober: Response to the MacArthur Park drug epidemic just isnt enough ," and " The time for excuses is over.

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A Doomscroll Break: Parks and Recreation on Social Media — Episode 135

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

If you’ve been following NRPA on social media, you may already be familiar with my guest today via some very fun, informational, and engaging Instagram reels that have been gracing your feeds for the last few months.

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Celebrating Earth Day with Parks and Recreation — April Bonus Episode

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

The April issue of Parks & Recreation magazine is out now, and on today’s bonus episode we’re diving into one of this month’s feature stories, “ Celebrating Earth Day.” Toolkit (Webinar on April 14, 2022) Parks for Pollinators BioBlitz NRPA Green Stormwater Infrastructure Certificate Program Related Links: Park.Change.