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Margaret Mead, Anthropologist
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INTRODUCTION

Government is a slow and tedious process. While it often includes citizen and neighborhood involvement, non-governmental, private organizations have created movements and interesting groups which can create positive change in our cities and towns.

I am fascinated by the way groups are created and how they influence public decision making. This blog merely recognizes them and forwards the description of these groups from their own websites.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

New Yorkers for Parks

Location: New York, NY

Website: www.ny4p.org

New Yorkers for Parks conducts research and develops tangible policy recommendations around our findings related to park development, management and sustainability. Using this research as a foundation for our advocacy campaigns, NY4P drives both immediate actions and long-term policies that protect and enhance the city’s vast network of parks, ensure adequate and equitable distribution of open space resources to all neighborhoods, and inform and empower communities throughout New York City to advocate for their open space needs.

To support our efforts,NY4P builds and maintains strategic partnerships with government officials and agencies, local parks groups and conservancies, academic institutions, and other key stakeholders in the public and private sectors.

Our guiding principles are:

- Open spaces, and the resources to support them, should beequitably distributed,

- Existing parks and open spaces should be well-maintained,

- Parks are an essential public service and should be primarily funded by public dollars, and

- Innovative financing strategies for creating, improving, and maintaining open space should be explored to augment public dollars.
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