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
