|
|
Our Partners
Americans for Our Heritage and Recreation
 Contribution to Urban Parks online: news, advocacy and activism on urban parks at the national level - including funding information and opportunities and updates from Capitol Hill.
Americans for Our Heritage and Recreation (AHR) is a broad and diverse organization representing conservationists, the recreation and sporting goods industries, park and recreation specialists, wildlife enthusiasts, advocates for urban and wilderness areas, preservationists of cultural and historic sites, land trust advocates, the youth sports community, and civic groups seeking to revitalize the Federal government's Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Program (UPARR). AHR provides detailed information and updates on these initiatives, directs people to local LWCF-funded projects and shows them ways to get LWCF and UPARR funding for specific projects; and shows how Congress is shaping the debate on open space and recreation issues. For more information, contact Executive Director Tom St. Hilaire.
City Parks Alliance
 Contribution to Urban Parks online: CPA members have contributed successful strategies for the revitalization of parks; information on innovative park programs; experiences in nonprofit management; essays on the benefits of parks, and more.
The City Parks Alliance (CPA) is a national organization formed in response to a broad-based movement that increasingly recognizes the role of parks in the revitalization of urban communities. It is also an outgrowth of the Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds' Urban Parks Initiative, which helped to establish a network of top private-nonprofit and public-sector urban parks organizations, and parks and recreation agencies.
The organizers and founding board members represent over 19 Wallace-Reader's Digest grantee agencies who want to sustain and expand the national momentum initiated through their strategic planning process; to raise awareness of the social, economic, and environmental value of America's urban park systems; and to advocate for parks' rightful place in the meeting urban challenges.
The Alliance will explore possible avenues of reciprocity between federal initiatives and local community needs involving urban parks. These include established and desired future partnership opportunities with other national organizations that have complementary priorities. Additionally, the Alliance intends to collect and disseminate data to assist organizations in making the case for the value of parks. For more information, contact City Parks Alliance, Dick Dadey, Executive Director, 153 Waverly Place, 4th Floor, New York, NY; 212-620-5660
Partnerships for Parks
Contribution to Urban Parks online: tip sheets, facts and how-to information for parks groups on everything from fundraising to marketing to establishing a friends-of-the-park group.
Partnerships for Parks is a public/private initiative of New York's City Parks Foundation and the City of New York/Parks and Recreation, which was established in response to decades of cuts in funding for New York City's parks. Founded by Tim Tompkins in 1995, Partnerships for Parks' mission is to spur community support for and involvement in New York City's parks. The organization works to strengthen, support and start neighborhood park groups; link them together so that they can learn from each other and be stronger collectively; and promote parks in general so that people will be more likely to join in efforts to restore and preserve them. Partnerships for Parks received the Ford Foundation's Innovations in American Government Award in 2000. For more information, contact Deputy Director Data Litvack.
Trust for Public Land
 Contribution to Urban Parks online: content related to the benefits of parks, as well as park financing and funding.
Founded in 1972, the Trust for Public Land (TPL) specializes in conservation real estate, applying its expertise in negotiations, public finance, and law to protect land for public use and enjoyment. Creating parks and protecting open space in urban areas is central to TPL's overall mission of conserving land for people. In 1994, TPL launched its Green Cities Initiative to help create parks and protect open space in the nation's urban areas, where 80 percent of Americans live, work and play. In the years since, TPL has helped nearly 20 cities complete over 250 park projects. For more information on TPL's urban conservation, contact Kathy Blaha, Vice President for National Programs.
|
|
