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What Happens When Parks and Artists Partner to Advance Equity

In 2015, local groups in two starkly different settings were given financial and technical support to work with artists to change their approach to building and managing parks for their communities. They were two of six community planning and development organizations given support by the funder consortium ArtPlace America through its Community Development Investments (CDI) initiative. Three years later, the results illustrate how arts-based strategies can preserve, express and bestow cultural heritage and identity, encourage community co-creation and empowerment in planning and building capital projects, and promote healthy youth development.