This year again, local leaders gathered their neighbours, built connections, and restored nature in projects big and small. The movement continues to expand, and we're pleased to share just some of these impacts in our 2025 Impact Report.
Ready to rally your crew and make a visible difference in your local park? This guide walks you through everything you need to host a successful community clean-up in Toronto
Discover ways to help you host events in your local parks during extreme heat events.
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.
The 6th Montreal Park People Forum is back on September 17 under the theme “Remembering, Looking Forward, and Taking Action for Urban Parks".
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Public areas like parks, ravines, and other greenspaces have become crucial during a growing period of isolation, inequality, and climate anxiety. They provide a space for healing, connection, and growth, in addition to a place to play, rest, and get fresh air. Parks offer a chance to reclaim space, foster a sense of community, and inspire local leadership for many groups, particularly those that are historically underrepresented in decision-making processes.
Community members are converting their local parks into vibrant hubs of connection, joy, and action; that spirit is celebrated in this report. It draws attention to the value of community-driven transformation and grassroots leadership in our common green areas.
Through an evaluation of the Sparking Change Toronto program Park People aimed to understand the impact of the program in four key areas outlined in Park People’s Theory of Change:
Discover the impact of the Sparking Change program in Toronto.
Parks and greenspaces are powerful spaces for community connection, health, wellbeing, and resilience. At Park People, we’ve developed a framework and process to better understand and measure the impact of our work across five key domains—including community health and wellbeing.
This toolkit shares our approach and work to date as a case study, with a focus on health and wellbeing indicators, and offers practical tools and questions to help others in the sector deepen their own impact measurement practices. Whether you’re a nonprofit, municipality, or community group, we hope this resource supports your efforts to build healthier, more connected communities through parks and greenspaces.
We offer this toolkit as a case study and a starting point. It includes
Together, we can strengthen the case for parks as essential to healthy, thriving communities.
Measuring health, wellbeing, and equity across parks and greenspaces.