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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Revisiting Trust for Public Land's Park Score® methodology " (2017) -- " Federal shutdown as another example of why local jurisdictions should have more robust contingency and master planning processes " (2013) -- " Testimony: Agency Performance Oversight, DC Department of Parks and Recreation " (2012) Lack of investment in board development, (..)

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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

In other cases, they’re created directly by elected and administrative officials of government organizations, operating as an extension of government agencies yet they engage in fundraising, soliciting private contributions from willing citizen donors. References. LeRoux, Kelly. Who Benefits from Nonprofit Economic Development?

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser. See item #10 in " Creating a Silver Spring "Sustainable Mobility District" | Part 3: Program items 10-18 " (2017), for the concept.