Championed park and green space equity with power-building organizations across the country.

The People, Parks, and Power (P3) initiative established a theme of “nurturing resistance” for 2025. We strengthened our network of community power-building groups and created spaces for building a national movement for groups who are committed to park equity and land justice. These spaces included our annual P3 Convening, held in May, and various organizers’ circles where community leaders share their challenges and tactics and strategize together towards solutions. In partnership with Berkeley Media Studies Group, we hosted a field-facing webinar focused on building narrative power to elevate park equity as a necessity that intersects with equally important issues such as housing, environmental justice, and land justice. We also provided technical support and training to our partner organizations to ensure that they can respond to emergent and increasing community needs influenced by the current political climate, while remaining steadfast in their goals to advance park equity through community power building and policy and systems change. We shared lessons from of work as part of two presentations at the 2025 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.

Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Image by Prevention Institute.