P3 launched in 2021 with an inaugural cohort of 14 Local Partners, each receiving $500,000 over two years to organize youth, residents, working-class families, and farmworker communities to advance equitable park and land use policies. In 2024, P3 entered a second phase with seven continuing Local Partners, each receiving $400,000 over two years to deepen policy wins, strengthen organizing infrastructure, and sustain long-term systems change. Inaugural partners remain actively engaged through the Strategic Learning Exchange, contributing to national field building and shared learning across cohorts.

Phase II: Continuing Local Partners (2024–2026)

• Central Texas Interfaith Sponsoring Committee (Austin, TX) is applying their successful community organizing and power building model to advance park equity in the historically Latino and Black neighborhoods of East and South Austin—communities with green space deficits that face displacement threats.
• Colectiva Feminista en Construcción (San Juan, PR), a grassroots organization led by Black queer women, is organizing the Río Piedras community to identify policies that address decades of systematic neglect and austerity measures, promoting collective ownership over public space and increasing green space.
• Hope Community (Minneapolis, MN), a multiracial organization that mobilizes Black, Indigenous, and people of color for policy and systems change, is continuing their long-standing work advocating for policies, metrics, practices, and narratives that support racial equity in Minneapolis’ park system.
• Project Milpa—a collaboration of Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy, Líderes Campesinas, and Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project—(Oxnard, CA) is organizing farmworkers—including Mexican immigrants and Indigenous Mexicans—in Ventura County and advancing local land use policies that increase access to parks and green space.
• South Bronx Unite (Bronx, NY), an environmental justice organization building community power in the predominantly Black and brown neighborhoods of the South Bronx, is advocating for city-level policy and systems changes, and increased funding for green spaces in frontline communities through their Community Land Trust.
• The Conscious Connect Community Development Corporation (Springfield, OH), a Black-led organization that reimagines and redevelops underutilized public spaces for health, education, peace, and culture, is organizing residents to advocate for city policies and processes that remove barriers to creating parks and activating vacant spaces, and ensure future developments include provisions for parks and green space.
• Water Collaborative of Greater New Orleans (New Orleans, LA) is advancing stormwater equity in an effort to mitigate flooding in New Orleans, especially in the city’s low-income Black neighborhoods, and create more green spaces in high need communities.

Inaugural Local Partners (2021–2023)

• California Indian Museum and Cultural Center (Santa Rosa, CA), a Native American led cultural organization, works with Pomo and Miwok youth to create a Native cultural gathering policy to improve access to—and culturally sensitive stewardship of—regional parks for Sonoma County’s Native American communities.
• Chainbreaker Collective (Santa Fe, NM), a member-led economic and environmental justice organization, advocates for models that increase community control over local development, fight displacement, and increase access to green space.
• Chispa Arizona (Phoenix, AZ) builds power among Phoenix’s Latino residents to advance policies and development practices that combat extreme heat and advance green space equity.
• Communities in Partnership (Durham, NC), a Black- and women-led organization, organizes residents of the majority Black and Latino neighborhoods of East Durham to build a policy agenda that centers the lived experience of those marginalized by the current approach to parks and green space.
• Make the Road Nevada (Las Vegas, NV), a member-led organization that builds power with Latino and working-class immigrant communities, organizes residents of Las Vegas’ East and North sides to advocate for policies that increase green space, combat extreme heat, and center historically underrepresented communities in local public infrastructure and development policies.
• One Love Global (Detroit, MI), organizes Black youth and increases their voice in city government decision-making on green space and environmental justice issues.
• Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA) organizes South LA’s predominantly Black and Latino communities to assess environmental and health burdens associated with contaminated lands, and advocating for policy and systems changes to institutionalize community-centered remediation of brownfields into healthy green spaces in frontline communities.