Resources

Resources for Park and Recreation Professionals

With help from our members and research partners, we make the following resources and tools available to equip parks and recreation departments, municipalities, urban design and landscape architecture firms, and advocacy organizations to enhance capacity and build equitable, healthy, and engaged communities.

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Technical Tool
Recreation Center Funding Equity Matrix – Dollars
Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
This is an equity matrix used by MPRB to make decisions on funding allocation for recreation centers.
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Plan
Racial Equity Action Plan
Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) has been working on equity, inclusion and diversity since 2011. Currently, three areas of work – Racial Equity…
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Report
NY City Framework for an Equitable Future
NYC Parks
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Report
Healthy Development Without Displacement
Prevention Institute
In this new paper, we explore: What can people working on “healthy community” issues—like active transportation, parks, healthy food, planning, public health, …
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Policy
Equity Criteria for Capital and Rehabilitation — Neighborhood and Regional Park Project
Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
The City of Minneapolis and the Park and Recreation Board enacted 20 Year Neighborhood and Regional Park Plan ordinances to achieve a shared goal of closing a …
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Policy
Equity Criteria for Allocating Recreation Center Funding
Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
In building a more equitable park system, it is important for the MPRB to target investment of public funds into parks in racially diverse and low-income neigh…
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Policy
Criteria Based System for MPRB Regional Park and Trail Capital Project Scheduling
Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
This document outlines an approach for quantifiably evaluating regional parks and trails, in order to ensure that investments are equitably targeted and suppor…
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Policy
Criteria-Based System for MPRB Capital and Rehabilitation Project Scheduling
Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
In selecting projects to be funded by the 20 Year Neighborhood Parks Funding Plan, the MPRB has developed a set of equity-based criteria for prioritizing capit…
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Report
A New Way of Working for Cities
Civic Commons Learning Network
This one-page flyer outlines the Reimagining the Civic Commons project, a national initiative to foster engagement, equity, environmental sustainability, and e…
Case Study
Anchorage Youth Employment in Parks Program
This program high school students with an employment program that allows them to build social skills and capabilities for further leadership in the community a…

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Resources

Resources for Park and Recreation Professionals

Recreation Center Funding Equity Matrix – Dollars

Racial Equity Action Plan

NY City Framework for an Equitable Future

Healthy Development Without Displacement

Equity Criteria for Capital and Rehabilitation — Neighborhood and Regional Park Project

Equity Criteria for Allocating Recreation Center Funding

Criteria Based System for MPRB Regional Park and Trail Capital Project Scheduling

Criteria-Based System for MPRB Capital and Rehabilitation Project Scheduling

A New Way of Working for Cities

Anchorage Youth Employment in Parks Program

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