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.
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Explore key findings from five years of the Canadian City Parks Report, highlighting significant trends, issues, and practices shaping urban parks across the country.
A guidance and resources to measure the impact of your park work on community health and wellbeing, integrating a social equity lens.
Discover the impact of the Sparking Change program in Toronto on community health, equity, human-nature connection, and ecological integrity.
Learn more about the impact of Canada’s large urban parks’ stewardship initiatives—from healthier ecosystems and stronger community well-being to essential support for city services.
From our work to the community leaders we support in activating their local parks to the municipalities that use our insights to create better park policy, the movement continues to expand. We’re pleased to share just some of these impacts in our Impact Report.
How the park sector can meet today’s complex challenges through partnerships and collaboration.
Can different types of parks – with varying sizes, histories, descriptions, and designs – offer the same benefits as Canada’s historic “destination parks?
As the program nears its 4-year mark, Park People has recently launched the Ravine Engagement Report, highlighting its tremendous impacts on the communities it serves across the city.
How Addressing Conflict and Reframing Challenges as Opportunities Can Create More Equitable and Sustainable Parks.
Explore the impacts of large urban parks on communities’ connectedness to nature and–by extension–their health and happiness.
How collaboration, mindfulness, and power-sharing in parks can help nurture and repair relationships between ourselves, our communities, and the wider natural world.
How parks can help create more equitable, resilient cities—not only as we recover from COVID-19, but as we address another looming crisis: climate change.
Perspectives on safety, accessibility, and user impact of the new street installation.
Trends, challenges, and leading practices in Canadian cities to inspire action, share learning, and track progress in city parks across the country.
Park People launches the first Canadian City Parks Report, highlighting park trends, challenges, and leading practices in Canadian cities.
In July 2018 and November 2018, Park People worked with the City of Toronto and over 100 volunteers to conduct…
Discover the landscape of park funding in Canada, exploring options to ensure reliable and sustainable funding for Canada’s parks.
Challenges and opportunities facing city parks in Canada, including offering inspiration, best practices, and key strategies for moving forward.
How have parks shaped the relationship between nature and society? Learn about a new approach that links good environmentalism and good urbanism through park systems.
What we can learn from the Weston Family Parks Challenge, and how we can apply those lessons to help guide the future of park philanthropy in Canada.
Unlocking Allan Gardens’ potential with a new governance model.
Social impacts of communities in underserved neighbourhoods becoming involved in animating and improving their local park.
A case study highlighting inspiring new urban parks and open spaces in the Greater Golden Horseshoe (ON).
Explore strategies for creating a network of parks and open spaces that can connect our parks, ravines, hydro corridors, laneways, and other public spaces.
Explore problems facing Toronto’s parks, and opportunities and recommendations to overcome them.