Ana Munro, a professor at North Hennepin Community College, leads the Outdoor and Environmental Leadership program — an innovative, hands-on...
Category: Next Generation of Parks
Closing the Adventure Gap
People of color make up more than 40 percent of the U.S. population, but are still vastly underrepresented in our country’s national parks, ...
Envisioning the next 140 years of Minneapolis’ world class parks
One of my favorite aspects of my role as Executive Director of the Minneapolis Parks Foundation has been to help tell the story of Minneapolis...
Up Next in Next Generation of Parks: José González, Founder of Latino Outdoors, Thursday, May 4
Join us 7-8:30pm at Mill City Museum Minneapolis, Minn. – José G. González, Founder of Latino Outdoors and Co-Founder of the Outdoorist Oath, comes...
Join Us March 30 for the Next Generation of Parks: “Play and Restoration in Our Post-Pandemic World,” with internationally celebrated landscape designer Mikyoung Kim
Thursday, March 30, 7-8:30pm, University of Minnesota’s Rapson Hall Minneapolis, Minn. – Emerging from a consolidated incubation period of...
2022 Highlights and Reflections
Unlike plunging into the Covid pandemic in 2020, which happened literally overnight for many of us, emerging from this life- and world-changing...
2021 Highlights & Reflections
Every day during this year of change our Minneapolis parks have helped us navigate a new normal and reconnect us with nature and each other. We’re...
Sponsorship Opportunities
The Minneapolis park system’s green spaces and inspiring places are essential to our civic identity, providing the common ground where residents...
Race, Place, and Representation, a conversation with Kofi Boone, Tabitha Montgomery, and Paul Bauknight, opens the 2021-2022 season of the Next Generation of Parks Event Series, Oct. 7
Ambreen Tariq and Mikyoung Kim are slated to round-out the season in 2022 Minneapolis, Minn. – The Minneapolis Parks Foundation opens its...