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Creating an Inclusive Environment While You Wait
A park and recreation professional and her child discuss how they promote belonging in their programs.
Indy Parks’ Road to Racial Equity
Indy Parks explores diversity, equity and inclusion in its parks and park spaces.
NRPA’s Equity in Practice Initiative
Learn about NRPA’s two-year diversity, equity and inclusion journey and how we’re preparing for the future.
The 2022 Conference Program Committee
This team spent the better part of the year determining what topics would be of most value to their colleagues, seeking out top speakers in the field and vetting hundreds of session proposal applications.
Additional Articles
Placing Equity at the Center of Our Work
The only wrong way to approach equity work is to avoid beginning your journey of learning and trying.
Teaching Kids to Be Equity Leaders
By creating the framework for our communities and being positive role models for our youngest park and recreation patrons, we are teaching kids to be tomorrow’s equity leaders.
NRPA Welcomes Four New Members to 2022-2023 Board of Directors
We are excited to introduce the 2022-2023 NRPA Board of Directors officers.
Houston, We Have an Employment Problem
Learn why park and recreation agencies across the country are facing staffing challenges.
Does Your Staff Resemble the Community You Serve?
The American Academy of Park and Recreation Administrators’ JEDI Committee has been tackling the question of how to diversify the park and recreation workforce during the “Great Resignation.”
Equity and Health: A Community-Driven Venture in Tukwila, Washington
City of Tukwila Parks and Recreation applied and is a recipient of the NRPA Parks as Community Wellness Hubs grant.
Member Benefit: Check Out the New NRPA Connect
NRPA Connect is an online networking platform that makes it easy to communicate with an experienced network of nearly 60,000 peers.
People Agree: Parks and Recreation Is Essential
Nine in 10 U.S. adults agree parks and recreation is an important service provided by their local governments.
Parks and Recreation Provides Vital Youth Services
Park and recreation professionals provide important offerings for youth when school is not in session.
More Money Comes With Important Changes
Recently, the Biden administration and the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) have announced grants totaling $192 million will be awarded in 2023.
Thinking Out Loud: An Alternative Perspective to Recreation
By building community, Black participants can feel a sense of safety and connectedness to an activity or facility, and will be more inclined to continue to utilize the service and introduce it to others.
Parks as Places for Connection, Belonging and Inspiration
As we grapple with everyday challenges due to climate change and social inequities, can park programs become spaces for communities to come together, and find hope and inspiration to confront these challenges?
Soccer Camp Game Segregated Youth by Race and Ethnicity
In the case of Viau v. City of Troy, plaintiff Tennille Viau filed a federal civil rights complaint on behalf of her child, “K.V.,” against the defendants who jointly administered a summer soccer camp with the city.
Providing Adaptive and Inclusive Aquatics Services in Your Community
Adaptive and inclusive aquatics services save lives. Where should we begin when providing those services?
Expanding Equitable Park Access in Providence Rhode Island
Providence, Rhode Island, has invested more than $27 million in capital improvements to parks over a five-year period that will expand equitable access across the city.