- People everywhere are searching for ways local parks can better serve their communities. Here are lessons from six great ones.
- In Cleveland, good public spaces and parks are regarded as critical in helping the city attract highly mobile "New Economy" businesses and workers. This article reports on an effort to identify potential new open spaces downtown and build a constituency for investing in them.
- A Denver business leader explains why the creation of Commons Park, along the Central Platte Valley, was a cornerstone in developing new mixed-use downtown neighborhoods.
- The story behind an award-winning fire-and-music installation by artist Barnaby Evans, which has had an impressive cultural and economic impact on downtown Providence.
- Extensive coverage on design and its influence on safety, including layout, "active edges," visibility, amenities and their coordination, and more. From Toronto Parks & "Recreation's Planning, Designing and Maintaining Safer Parks"
- New York, New York New York City’s playgrounds are cleaner and their equipment is in better structural condition as a result of quicker detection of…
- Susan Rademacher of the Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy, on how the conservancy was formed and its first steps toward restoring and increasing use in Lousiville's parks.
- Nonprofit bylaws, management tools and a host of other helpful resources can be found at the Internet Nonprofit Center. The Nonprofit FAQ
- Eleven keys to success, developed from those on the inside. Excerpted from Project for Public Spaces' Public Parks, Private Partners.
- Prospect Park Alliance President Tupper Thomas, on her experience building one of the U.S.'s premier parks organizations. Project for Public Spaces' Urban Parks Institute
- Extensive articles on marketing, communications and fundraising from gb3group.com, a company offering “nonprofit marketing solutions.” GB3 Nonprofit Marketing
- Research from the Urban Parks Institute