Park People’s Executive Director, Erika Nikolai, has been honoured with the Distinguished Individual Award from World Urban Parks—an international recognition that celebrates her leadership and the growing national movement Park People has helped build here in Canada.
Why are events in parks important? How do grants fit into Park People’s larger goals for creating change in city parks?
The emerging stream of the Park People Nature Connect Fund provides up to $5,000 to grassroots and registered organizations across Canada that connect people with nature, foster ecological stewardship, and restore urban parks and green spaces.
The scaling stream of the Park People Nature Connect Fund offers up to $20,000 to registered organizations across Canada that connect people with nature while fostering ecological stewardship and restoring urban parks.
Learn more about green social prescribing, an evolving practice that encourages individuals to reestablish connections with nature and one another to enhance their mental, physical, and social wellbeing.
A reflection on the BEING BLACK IN PUBLIC Survey Report, exploring how Black communities experience parks and public spaces, and what fosters joy and belonging.
How do we build a healthier, greener, more joyful Toronto? We start at the park. Discover how communities across the city have transformed their green spaces over the past fifteen years. Then roll up your sleeves and help shape what comes next.
By donating to Park People, you’ll support vibrant parks for everyone.
Putting people at the centre of parks and public spaces.
Park People’s professional services build on our charitable work activating the power of parks.
We help our partners to engage communities, create quality programming, measure public space use, and apply innovative governance models and partnerships — all necessary ingredients to create dynamic parks in the 21st-century city.
As Canada’s national city parks organization, Park People’s services and approach are rooted in our leading research into park planning, policy, and engagement and our extensive network of park enthusiasts across the country.
Our broad definition of parks — from more traditional parks to hydro corridors and downtown parking lots — and our experience with cross-sectoral partnerships, help us think differently about what’s possible for parks and public spaces.
Learn more about our professional services contact us today.
Park professionals need new ways to plan, design, manage, program, govern and fund city parks. We can help!
We’re Canada’s experts in public life studies. Informed by your needs, we’ll design the public life study, recruit and train volunteers, and make sense of and amplify the insights.
There’s no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to park governance. We’ll surface and sort through partner strengths and recommend governance models that build solid foundations for productive park relationships.