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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

For either a BID or a conservancy extra services are likely to include security, sanitation, capital improvements, and marketing and economic development activities. New York City has since developed many such groups for parks and and business districts. Conservancies and BIDs as special service districts.

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In college in the early 1980s, the University of Michigan repositioned its focus on fundraising (what universities call "development") in part by hiring a top development official from Stanford, creating a new campaign, etc.--the the University has successful raised billions since. It begins with “What do we want Metro to be?”

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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

In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. 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.

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

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Over the past twenty years a set of institutionalized funding relationships developed in which nonprofit organizations in the forms of private philanthropic foundations and “friends of” charities formed and now raise increasingly large share of revenues to help pay for public services.

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NonProfits & Branding – The Paradigm Shift

Public Policy Blog

Many nonprofits use their brands primarily as a fundraising tool, but a growing number of nonprofits are developing a broader and more strategic approach, managing their brands to create greater social impact and tighter organizational cohesion ( Kylander & Stone, 2012 ) attempting to act as catalysts of change in the world.

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Third place issues

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Now, probably the most prominent third place in the US is the coffee shop--over the last 30+ years "coffee culture" has developed, with a big push by Starbucks, in the US in the place of bars. s As You Are bar issues fundraising appeal to prevent closure ," Washington Blade. That you can have a cool space, even if the exterior is dull.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Plein Air for the Park is a fundraiser for Grand Teton National Park, where professional artists paint a park scene, and the paintings are sold (" Plein Air in Grand Teton National Park ," Homestead Magazine ). Parks should develop programs to assist people of lesser means in enabling their participation. Many programs.