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A Partnership Leads to Community Enhancement

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2009 | Add Comment
A partnership helps a vocational high school in Chicago extend its student-run food service to the Garfield Park Conservatory across the street. A Success Story from the Urban Parks Institute.
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Preventing Graffiti

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2009 | Add Comment
Tips and techniques for keeping graffiti writers at bay - and getting more community involvement in your park to boot. From the Urban Parks Institute.
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Assets Management: Chicago Communities Find Hidden Strengths

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Most communities, even when money's tight, are sitting on unacknowledged treasures in the form of other assets - such as human capital. This article shows real-life examples of assets-based management at work. The Neighborhood Works Journal
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Written Agreements

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A primer on the various types of agreements nonprofits can create with their partners, from the most formal to the most flexible. Excerpted from Project for Public Spaces' Public Parks, Private Partners.
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Inappropriate Activities

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Discourage "undesirable" situations in your park by evaluating and changing the physical conditions that support those situations. From Toronto Parks & Recreation's Planning, Designing and Maintaining Safer Parks
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Small Grants Reap Large Rewards in Savannah, Georgia

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A Success Story from the Urban Parks Institute.
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The New York Council of Dog Owner Groups

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Representing over 10,000 dog owners, NYCDOG is dedicated to improving communities by promoting the establishment and maintenance of humane off leash recreation opportunities, responsible dog ownership and respectful park stewardship.

The NYC Council of Dog Owner Groups

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Creative Discovery Garden Flourishes in New Park

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A design process that gathered input from schools and in-kind donations from businesses and organizations turned a children's play area, and the environmental restoration project surrounding it, into a backyard, a schoolyard and a science classroom.
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Winning Support From a Major Foundation: Tips from a Parks Nonprofit

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Tupper Thomas, President of Prospect Park Alliance and Administrator of Prospect Park, shares strategies used to get a $400,000 matching grant from Troy, Michigan's The Kresge Foundation.
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Developing Effective Master Plans

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Susan Rademacher (Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy) and Fred Kent (Project for Public Spaces) on structuring a process, building a team, and developing a design.
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Master Operating Agreement

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Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy, Inc., And City of Louisville Parks Department

THIS MASTER OPERATING AGREEMENT, entered into by the LOUISVILLE AND JEFFERSON COUNTY PARKS DEPARTMENT, an agency for which the City of Louisville serves as fiscal agent, herein referred to as “Parks,” and the LOUISVILLE OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY, INC., herein referred to as “Conservancy”;

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Conference Galvanizes Georgia Park Leaders

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The First Annual Parks Leadership Conference, organized by Atlanta's Park Pride, convened park advocates from throughout the state to address the urgent needs of Georgia's parks.
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