Our mission is to create parks and protect land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come.

A future where everyone, everywhere has access to the healing powers of nature.

Source: Nonprofit submitted responses

Goal One: Ensure every person in every community has access to safe, free quality greenspace and nature.

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Goal Two: Advance nature-based solutions to combat climate change and protect communities from the onslaught of the climate crisis.

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Goal Three: Through dynamic greenspaces, build stronger communities better prepared to tackle social, health, and environmental challenges.

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Describe an investment in leadership

This year, we invested funds to offer Linkedin Learning for all staff. With that implementation, we rolled out recommended courses for staff on that platform, including specific courses targeted at growing manager's skillsets. We’ve also continued our efforts to have all supervisors attend The Management Center courses on leadership/management. The Management Center is a 2-day supervisor training called “Managing to Save the World.”

This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:

• Strategic Partnerships

• Networks of Collective Impact Efforts

• Thought Leadership

• Raising Awareness

• Community Building

• Policy Advocacy

What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?

Through on-the-ground partnerships, community organizing, original research and advocacy efforts we work across the US to connect communities with nature. See our website for additional information and links to further details on our mobilization efforts.

Over the last year, Trust for Public Land has made commitments to create a workforce reflective of the diversity of the US and create an organization that understands the intrinsic correlation between diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and overall performance quality at the department, local, and national levels. We've hired an SVP, Chief People and Culture Officer, to work with HR to help implement the DEI Action Plan and improve recruiting and onboarding staff, deepening transparency, and creating stronger career paths at TPL. TPL is working with park advocates and municipal leaders across the US to close the outdoor equity gap and ensure quality parks are available to everyone, including advancing adoption of Community Schoolyards as a game-changing solution to America’s park equity problem. We estimate opening all public schoolyards to local residents during non-school hours would reduce inequity and give 19.6 million Americans, access to park space within a 10-minute walk of their homes. Our 2022 ParkScore analysis is a groundbreaking report highlighting creative ways that cities are using parks to resist the effects of climate change and reduce park inequity as well as how TPL is collaborating with those communities. For example, in Philadelphia we're funding artists who are working with residents in neighborhoods with some of the highest temperatures and worst flooding in the city to tell their stories and we've helped transform nearly a dozen schoolyards with green infrastructure like absorbent turf fields and bioswales to improve climate resiliency. TPL also launched a refresh of its brand that better connects us to audiences who believe they and future generations need equitable access to the healing and unifying power of nature and the outdoors. We consulted community members and leaders, donors, supporters, outdoor enthusiasts, outside experts, and TPL staff, and we’re ready to step into our next 50 years as a leader of this important movement.