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CELEBRATING AMERICA'S BACKYARD
Virtual Conference Opportunities

n 2017, NRPA Live - the NRPA Annual Conference live streaming
event - won the Association Trends All Media Contest silver medal,
and this year we're kicking it up a notch! This September, you will be
able to watch more live education sessions than ever before, from wherever
you are! For the first time, virtual attendees will be able to access exclusive
live content between sessions, providing a direct connection to presenters
to respond to questions and providing testimonials from leaders in the field
of parks and recreation captured on-site.
One of the primary reasons for
attending a conference is for the
networking opportunities, and
NRPA Live will still provide that,
but from the convenience of your
home or office. Virtual networking opportunities will be available
through associated NRPA Connect
forums, allowing you to collaborate with other attendees through
encouraged dialogue surrounding
each of the conference sessions.
Following are a few of the sessions
you'll have access to:

" What's Past Is Prologue " : The
Déjà Vu Health Case for Urban
Parks in the U.S. and the U.K.
One of the forces that led to parks

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becoming an integral part of the
infrastructure of cities in the midand late-19th-century in the United
States was a widespread perception
that they attributed to alleviating
disease, contagion and epidemics.
Six strategies will be explained
that were effective in this successful movement that appear to have
relevance to today's context. Four
of them relate to positioning parks
so they are recognized as a component to be included in the multifaceted effort to address the obesity
epidemic: conceptual alignment,
cost-effectiveness, associative positioning and psychological positioning. The other two pertain to the
tactical use of science to support

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advocacy and the need to secure
influential champions.
Grantmaking Success: A
Conversation with Funders
Whether it is capital funding for a
new senior center, a mini-grant for
a garden or a simple request for donations of craft supplies, the challenges around fundraising are often
the same: How do I find the right
funder? How do I write a winning
funding request with few resources? How do I successfully measure outcomes? But, the funders'
perspective isn't that easy either.
During this session, hear directly
from funders on their funding preferences and strategies to select winning projects. This panel of funders
will discuss application processes,
evaluation criteria, the importance
of measurable outcomes and strategies to ensure project success
throughout the project period. This
session will help identify the keys
to your fundraising success!
You can register for a single
session, an entire day or the complete event. By registering for the
complete live event, you will also
gain access to an additional 10
recorded sessions after the conference. This means you will have
the opportunity to obtain up to
2.0 CEUs. If you can't make the
trip to Indianapolis to attend conference in person, NRPA Live is
a worth-while alternative. Learn
more about NRPA Live at www.
nrpa.org/NRPALive.

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