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Dedication Ordinances & Impact Fees Shaping Park Access

Across the United States, more than 100 million people - including 28 million children - do not have access to a high-quality park within a 10-minute walk of home. This might appear to be a problem for city park and recreation agencies to solve, but new research from Trust for Public Land (TPL) suggests local agencies are not the primary actors in acquiring or opening new local parks. Instead, city planning and economic development agencies - which oversee residential development policies - and real estate developers are the key driver of parkland acquisition and creation. A TPL review of park and greenway openings between 2018 and 2023 across 10 representative U.S. cities finds that across 76 openings in these cities, 67 percent were built on land acquired from real estate developers via municipal requirements for either land donations or fees to fund the acquisition of park space needed for residents of their new development. There are two primary ways cities are acquiring parkland as part of real estate development: parkland dedication ordinances and impact fees. This presentation will share an overview of these policy mechanisms and summarize how cities can structure these policies to ensure the park access gap doesn't widen.

CEU's: 0.4

Date of recording being released: December 2nd, 2024

$12.00
$17.00

Diversity and Cultural Awareness 2022

Diversity and cultural awareness explores the importance of developing a diverse, equitable, and ethical workplace. To instill an innovative and progressive workplace, it is important that leaders consider how to instill diversity into the organizational culture. This course will cover the following four areas:

  • Defining culture, diversity, and inclusion;

· Designing an inclusive environment for your organization both internally and externally;

  • Managing community outreach; and
  • Creating an ethical organization.

This course is one component of NRPA’s Leadership Certificate Program.

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$125.00
$150.00
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Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls

Discover innovative water conservation strategies in park and recreation management as Spokane, Washington, showcases a creative funding solution. Learn how investing strategically not only saves millions of gallons of water annually but also enhances park system quality, ultimately boosting revenues.

CEU's: 0.1

Date of recording being released: First Monday in April 2024

$35.00
$50.00
Available for Immediate View

Environmental Maintenance: Global Impact and Your Agency

This webinar will provide information to help park and recreation professionals make decisions and choose products and improved practices that benefit the environment and support positive impacts on your agency, your community and the world.

CEU's: 0.1

$35.00
$50.00
Available for Immediate View

Equitable Aquatics: The 3 Ps of Inclusive Aquatics

Join this 2020 Virtual session and explore the implications and implementation of the 3 Ps of Inclusive Aquatics: Personnel, Programming, and Policies. Discuss outcomes and examples for each of the areas.

CEUs: 0.1

$35.00
$50.00
Available for Immediate View

Excel Data Analysis for Park and Recreation Professionals

This course will introduce park and recreation professionals to the basics of how to use Microsoft Excel for data management and analysis. A park and recreation-specific case study - with example data - is used for the hands-on activities which will give participants firsthand experience with Microsoft Excel.

After completing the training course, learners will develop a deeper knowledge of the features of Microsoft Excel, including how to modify data within rows and columns, how to find missing or outlier data, how to write basic and more advanced formulas, how to analyze data in a table, how to create and understand pivot tables, how to use the "Analyze Data" feature, and how to conduct a more advanced analysis using the information shared in the course.

CEU's: n/a
$0.00
$0.00
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February Premier: 2025 On-Demand education Talk

This on-demand education talk will be released on the first Monday of the month unless otherwise noted. Each month's virtual subscription Talk will be available for registration in advance, but the contents themselves will go live during the month of release. NRPA's virtual education Talks feature knowledgeable subject matter experts presenting on timely insights from research and practice. Each Talk is approximately 45 minutes to one hour long and is worth 0.1 CEU.

CEU's: 0.1

Date of Recording Being Released: First Monday in February 2025

$35.00
$50.00
Available for Immediate View

Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) Certificate Program

Description:

Managing stormwater, reducing pollution and complying with federal water quality regulations are a challenge for urban areas across the United States. Parks are critical infrastructure to communities providing natural areas, recreation, community gathering spaces and cooling from urban heat, among many other benefits. They also can enhance greater resilience in communities for cleaner water, reduced localized flooding, and clean air through the installation of Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI), including rain gardens, bioswales and green roofs.

There are many steps to this process, from pilot installations to a park systemwide GSI operation — such as securing public support, financing, ensuring compatible landscape design, managing construction materials and operations, performing ongoing maintenance, and communicating successes. The Green Stormwater Infrastructure Certificate program provides park and recreation professionals the knowledge and tools to promote, oversee, advance and operate GSI in their park systems. Park and recreation professionals will be armed to work collaboratively across departments and partnerships to enhance their community resilience with GSI in parks.

Program Overview:

The Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) Certificate provides a comprehensive step-by-step learning forum online in nine-course modules and a review course module. This certificate program provides participants the assurance and foundation to successfully oversee a GSI project or program — from planning to evaluation and every step in between. Each course is about 30 to 60 minutes in length, provides real case studies and knowledge checks for successful knowledge advancement. The online courses have been designed for the working professional in mind and can be completed in small parts, whether you have 10 minutes or an hour.

Who Should Enroll?

This program is designed for park and recreation professionals, community partners, public works and planners who are seeking to build resilience in their community through Green Stormwater Infrastructure in parks.

CEUs: 1.2

$420.00
$600.00
Available for Immediate View

Hiring to Reflect the Community You Serve

The traditional hiring practices in a civil service system are flawed and contain numerous barriers to employing a workforce that is reflective of the citizens we serve. In an effort to combat this imperfect system, Philadelphia Parks and Recreation used a project-based approach to flip the narrative in recruiting and hiring entry-level recreation leaders. The new system consists of a predetermined timeline, targeted recruitment, community-based information sessions, and a total rethinking of the civil service exam and how it is scored. The changes resulted in our most diverse civil service list to date. This speed session will quickly walk participants through the process, to show other agencies how they can implement a similar process to ensure a representative workforce.
$0.00
$0.00
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How P&R Can Work with DFC to Reduce Youth Substance Use

The CDC Branch Chief for the Drug Free Communities (DFC) program will present the rates of youth substance use in the US and how the DFC program addresses youth substance use. She will then discuss ways park and recreation departments can collaborate with DFC coalitions, and how they can also directly apply for the funding themselves. A representative from the Douglas County, Kansas, DFC coalition and their local park and recreation department will then share a real example of how they successfully worked together on reducing youth marijuana use in their community.

CEU's: 0.1

Date of Live Event: First Monday in December 2024

$35.00
$50.00
Available for Immediate View