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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.
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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.