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Resources: Private Funding and Benefits for Business

Information on public-private parks partnerships

Project for Public Spaces
http://www.pps.org/parks_plazas_squares/info/pubpriv/

Examples of park conservancies

The Olmsted Parks Conservancy
http://www.olmstedparks.org/

Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy
http://www.buffaloolmstedparks.org/

Central Park Conservancy
http://www.centralparknyc.org/

Charleston Parks Conservancy
http://www.charlestonparksconservancy.org/

Emerald Necklace Conservancy
http://www.emeraldnecklace.org/

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy
http://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/

San Francisco Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
http://www.parksconservancy.org/

Piedmont Park Conservancy
http://www.piedmontpark.org/

Forest Park Forever
http://www.forestparkforever.org/

Prospect Park Alliance
http://www.prospectpark.org/

Pittsburg Parks Conservancy
http://www.pittsburghparks.org/

Lincoln Park Conservancy
http://www.lincolnparkconservancy.org/

General information on business improvement districts

New York City Small Business Services: Help for Neighborhoods
http://www.nyc.gov/html/sbs/html/neighborhood/bid.shtml

Examples of BIDs

Bryant Park Corporation
http://www.bryantpark.org/park-management/overview.php

34th Street Partnership
http://www.34thstreet.org/

Lincoln Square BID
http://www.lincolnbid.org/

Examples of private urban beautification organizations
Broadway Mall Association
http://www.broadwaymall.org/

Chicago Parkways Foundation
http://www.parkways.org/

City Parks Foundation
http://www.cityparksfoundation.org/

Michigan Ave Streetscape Association
http://www.themagnificentmile.com/StreetScape/default.cfm

Seattle Parks Foundation
http://www.seattleparksfoundation.org/

York City Community Foundation
http://www.yccf.org/
To access Beautiful York Action Plan, go to: www.yccf.org/pdf/receive/beautifulyork.pdf

Examples of public-private garden partnerships

The Abkhazi Garden
1964 Fairfield Road, Victoria
BC V8S 1H4, Canada
http://www.gardensvictoria.com/abkhazigardens.html

The Portland Classical Chinese Garden
239 Northwest Everett Street
Portland, Oregon 97209
http://www.portlandchinesegarden.org/

Studies on the effects of parks

American Planning Association
http://www.planning.org/
           
Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program
http://www.brookings.edu/METRO.ASPX

The Center for Urban Horticulture
http://depts.washington.edu/urbhort/cuh/index.html

For Kathleen Wolf’s study “Human Dimensions of Urban Forestry and
Urban Greening”:
University of Washington, College of Forest Resources
Seattle, WA 98195-2100
http://www.cfr.washington.edu/research.envmind/index.html

Philadelphia Green Program
www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org/phlgreen/index.html

Wharton School of Business Study, “The Determinants of
Neighborhood Transformations in Philadelphia”
Available at http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org

Landscape and Human Health Laboratory; Frances Kuo
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
106 Levis Center, 919 W.
Illinois Street, Urbana
http://www.lhhl.uiuc.edu

Council on the Environment of New York City
http://www.cenyc.org
Greenmarket (212) 788-7476
Open Space Greening (212) 788-7935

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