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Financing the Future
Roundtable report now available online

A Lasting Legacy
The National recreation and Park Foundation Board recently gathered for its first meeting of the year on January 22nd. Their first
order of business, aside from some housekeeping issues, was to
discuss a work plan for the year. Derived from interviews of individual board members by the Chair, Chris Jarvi, the following objectives were discussed:
■■ ■Creation of a strategic plan for achieving the Foundation's
mission and goals,
■■ ■enhancement of the board to its full strength,
■■ ■Creation of a mutually supportive relationship with NrPA, and
■■ ■Development of a marketing strategy for reaching target
audiences.
A large part of the meeting was spent reviewing changes requested by NrPA in the memorandum of understanding held
between the two organizations. The NrPF Board developed a position statement for submission to the NrPA Board at an upcoming meeting. The proposed changes streamlined the language to
reﬂect how we are currently doing business and build on creating
additional value as we continue to work together.
The Foundation focuses on providing donors the opportunity
to be part of a Lasting Legacy by contributing to a permanent
endowment designed to fund cutting edge work on behalf of the
profession. We appreciate the contributions that we continue to
receive and invite those of you who have not yet contributed to
consider how you might help support a permanent endowment
to improve our profession. Please visit our website for news, updates, and information on how you can contribute.
Jeremy M. Culpepper, Administrator
admin@nrpfoundation.org, 864.634.0412
The National recreation and Park Foundation
c/o Doug Youngblood, NrPF Treasurer
P. o. Box 411371
Charlotte, NC 28241-1371
www.myparkandreclegacy.com

THe NrPA AND THe UrBAN INSTITUTe (UI), in cooperation with the National league of Cities (NlC) and the National Association of Counties (NACo), hosted a roundtable in the fall of
2011 for an invited group of decision makers from a wide variety of
disciplines including health, real estate, tax policy, conservation,
urban planning, academia, and a number of others disciplines to
examine the critical role that public parks and recreation play in
urban and metropolitan infrastructure. The purpose was to examine the future viability and sustainability of public funding for
parks and recreation.
The robust discussions focused on the extraordinary fiscal
pressures facing cities, counties, and metropolitan areas and the
challenges created by demographic, economic, environmental,
and social changes. A goal of the roundtable was to develop an
agenda for action and needed research.
The final report of the roundtable is now available online at
www.nrpa.org/urbanroundtable/ .

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