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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

Our guests today, Mason Whitcomb, Aidan Moore and Griffin Caiozzo, along with their other teammates Aidan Swift and Chris Roy, noticed there weren’t any safe, legal places to skateboard in their community, and started a grassroots movement to build a permanent, concrete, public skate/BMX/scooter activity park on land donated by their town.

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Why Is Program Evaluation So Important For Nonprofits?

Grant Consulting Services, LLC

Catalysts Nonprofit missions are effective because they often begin at the grassroots level. Now that you have evaluated your organization’s programming, measured performance, and planned an implementation and timeline strategy, you have a strong foundation from which to fundraise. And then another. And another.