Measuring Health, Wellbeing, and Equity in Greenspaces: A Toolkit & Common Indicators Framework

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 

• guiding questions
• practical tools
• lessons learned 

Together, we can strengthen the case for parks as essential to healthy, thriving communities.

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Measuring health, wellbeing, and equity across parks and greenspaces.