Built momentum and networks for park and green space equity.

Prevention Institute continued to play a key role in advancing narratives that support park and green space equity. PI’s People, Parks, and Power (P3) initiative amplified the important learnings and insights of Local Partners to a broad range of community practitioners, academic researchers, equity advocates, and philanthropic partners. Through a series of profiles highlighting P3 community-specific approaches, conversations with green space funders, and engaging sessions at the 2024 Greater and Greener conference, PI uplifted P3 stories to help shape the direction of park and green space equity across the nation. Through our partnership with Berkeley Media Studies Group and Dr. Alessandro Rigolon of the University of Utah, we infused the core pillars of P3—power-building, park and green space equity, and policy and systems change—into new resources available to community-based organizations and equity advocates in support of their work. The connections between park and green space and issues of environmental justice, climate resilience, housing equity, and racial justice continue to inform and expand the field of land use transformation.

Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Image by Rio Holaday.