The Latest Stories, News, and Updates
Check out the latest updates, stories and announcements from Park Pride.
Meet Hannah Jones, Park Pride’s new Marketing & Communications Manager
New team member alert!
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Play is a human right: Park Pride’s roundtable highlights importance of inclusive play spaces
Play spaces with innovative designs have triple the physical activity compared to non-inclusive spaces. That’s just one finding that was covered in Park Pride’s recent roundtable exploring the importance of inclusive parks and playgrounds.
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Building Park Pride’s Capacity
Recently, we've stories about the Parks for All campaign and the growing impact of our work across the city. The implementation of this growth, however, requires the concurrent growth of Park Pride to deliver more positive outcomes. That is why a portion of the Parks for All campaign is focused on making significant investments into our team. We're supporting internal bench strength, adding new positions to provide individualized coaching to Friends groups, and preparing tomorrow's leaders through internships.
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Getting to Know Director of Education, Eli Dickerson
Hello Atlanta park community! As a new member of the Park Pride staff, l can’t wait to get to know you and support your goals for an engaged community with your neighborhood park at the core.
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Park Stewardship Academy: Empowering Local Leaders
After a competitive application process, we're proud to announce the first class of the Park Stewardship Academy! These community leaders hail from a cross-section of Atlanta neighborhoods and were selected for their outstanding commitment to community, passion for activating local parks, and belief that every Atlantan deserves access to a great park. Join us in wishing these local leaders well on their park stewardship journey!
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Doubling Impact for Communities
From the smallest beautification project to a full-scale park overhaul, Park Pride’s Grantmaking Program awards funding to Friends of the Park groups for community-supported park improvements. Through the Parks for All campaign, we plan to grow our annual awards to $2.8 million by 2024, doubling investments in local parks and doubling impact for Atlantans across the city! The projects highlighted are among the first to be completed through the increased investment of Parks for All with support from grants awarded in 2022.
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Parks for All, Y’all!
Park Pride launched its first-ever comprehensive campaign, Parks for All, in 2022, and it has been a game changer—for Atlanta’s communities, for Atlanta’s parks, and for Park Pride.
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Six Atlanta Leaders Join Board of Local Parks Organization
Download PDF Press Release Atlanta, GA., July 2023 – A new cohort of park champions has joined Park Pride’s Board of Directors, expanding the breadth of expertise of the nonprofit’s […]
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A Turning Point: New Beginnings, Inspiration, and Hope
Eli Dickerson, Park Pride's new Director of Education, has been at the organization for six months. In this contribution to People, Places, and Parks, he reflects on why he's excited to have joined this team that has been low-key making a huge impact in Atlanta for decades.
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Park Pride launches new program to help residents activate their neighborhood parks
This fall, 12 residents are going to hone their leadership skills through Park Pride’s new Park Stewardship Academy (PSA). The nonprofit just selected the inaugural cohort that will undergo a three-month educational and skill-building program to learn how to better activate their respective parks through community events, programs and volunteer opportunities.
Read morePartnership for Inclusive Innovation Summer Internship Students Making an Impact
Download PDF Press Release ATLANTA, Ga. — Students in the fifth cohort of the Partnership for Inclusive Innovation’s (Partnership) Summer Internship program, formerly Smart Community Corps, are working on public […]
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Doing Things Differently for Parks
The need for greater funding in our city’s park system–especially for park maintenance– is not a new problem, nor is it solely an Atlanta problem. Cities across the country struggle to meet acceptable standards of care for our parks while balancing competing demands for resources. But now, leaders at all levels in Atlanta have displayed the courage to do things differently, to challenge the status quo, and implement changes that will lead us toward a greener, more equitable, and better maintained park system. In this month's contribution to the Saporta Report's "People, Places, and Parks," Park Pride's Executive Director, Michael Halicki, and Director of Communications & Policy, Rachel Maher, say "thank you" to these leaders.
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