Center for Community Progress

JANUARY 6, 2025

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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Stewardship Parks And Recreation Community Development Fundraising 97

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 12, 2023

We are fundraisers, so nonprofits often place us in the development department. Some metropolitan cities have grant professionals embedded in multiple departments – police, fire, parks and recreation, and transportation. Where do you belong in your organization? Who do you report to? We are involved in strategic planning.

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Fundraising Parks And Recreation Grant Writer Strategic Planning 102

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2024

I am on the board of Sugar House Park, which is owned by both the city and county, so it has some interesting intergovernmental issues. My background in planning, including parks planning, provides a knowledge base they didn't have access to before. Still, there is tension between being more active or more passive.

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Parks And Recreation Public Administration Housing Sanitation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2024

Parks with extraordinary environmental features face big losses in the face of sustained heat. national parks are trying to go carbon-free. national parks are trying to go carbon-free. What does that mean for visitors? ," National Geographic -- " What to Save?

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Parks And Recreation Sustainability Housing Management 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Students, parents, and teachers participating in a clean up of the school grounds, Wasatch Elementary School, Salt Lake. Schools as fundamental neighborhood anchors. Schools with high income demographics tend to do much better than those with low income demographics. Special Funding. Melina Mara/The Washington Post) 3.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Transportation Engagement Fundraising 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2024

Public facing civic assets--libraries, parks, schools, sustainable mobility programs like walking, biking, and transit, Safe Routes to School, public markets, farmers markets, etc. It's an interesting book.

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Parks And Recreation Engagement Urban Planning Campaign 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

Art has shaped our perception of landscapes, parks, and other public spaces for 200+ years in the United States alone, and longer in Europe (" ‘Nature’s Nation’: How American art shaped our environmental perspectives ," Princeton University Art Museum). Gene Harris Bandshell (amphitheater), Julia Davis Park, Boise, Idaho.

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Parks And Recreation Engagement Sustainability Security 52