Place Lab

Join our awesome Partner Conference in San Francisco next week and learn all about public space funding and fundraising tools, gardening tips and tricks, public private partnerships, top-rate keynote speakers, and more! Please spread the word!

Gain the tools to improve your local parks and public spaces at the Park Alliance's Partner Conference on Saturday, March 2nd at the City Club of San Francisco. Only a few spots left! Info & RSVP here: bit.ly/2IrKxbG

Place Lab Fall Newsletter -

Place Lab Fall Newsletter As many of you are aware, for the past year we have been working on a major and exciting growth opportunity in the form of a merger with the San Francisco Parks Alliance. With complementary and synergistic nonprofit missions, together our organizations are leveraging our native strengths to re-envi...

New Beginnings! -

New Beginnings! As many of you are aware, for the past year we have been working on a major and exciting growth opportunity in the form of a merger with the San Francisco Parks Alliance. With complementary and synergistic nonprofit missions, together our organizations are leveraging our native strengths to re-envi...

Join us next Friday to celebrate a new 5-building mural on Hickory Alley that explores the question, "What does music look like?"!

Hickory Alley Mural Celebration The Friends of Hickory Alley and SF Parks Alliance are thrilled to unveil a new mural by ArtSpan Artist, Hueman, funded by the Community Challenge Grant. Join us to toast the beautification of our city! Food, Drinks, Games, & Live MusicMeet the Artist - Heuman (Allison Tinati)Open to all agesMusical...

Come on down to Dogpatch Arts Plaza this Sunday to celebrate Mexican Independence Day!

Celebrate Mexican Independence Day in the Dogpatch Mexican Independence Day celebrates the Grito de Dolores (“the Cry of Dolores”), when a priest named Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang the bell of his church in the town of Dolores and delivered a speech on the morning of September 16, 1810. The holiday is marked by an assortment of parades, concer...

NY's Plazas have so many lessons for us over here in San Francisco!

Lounge in Them. Dash Through Them. But Don’t Call Them Parks. New York City has built more than 70 pedestrian plazas in the last 10 years as a way to improve traffic flow. To many, they look like parks in the street.

Thanks, American Nonprofits and Marc Rand, for understanding how challenging it is to run a small nonprofit!

A New Nonprofit Loan Fund Launches | GrantStation

Public space stewardship is sexy!

Innovation is sexy, but maintenance is what Philly really needs right now | Opinion Maintenance is not just drudgery. Simple acts of maintaining can lead to bigger, more transformative and visible changes.

Informed and Engaged Communities Foster Strong Democracies: How Can Technology Help? Lilian Coral, Knight Foundation

Care about sea level rise and resilient cities? Then sign up today to attend this awesome panel we've helped organize with ULI — July 18th 5:30-7:30pm at CMG (444 Bryant, SF)

Resilient By Design - What's Next? - ULI San Francisco The Resilient by Design | Bay Area Challenge was a year long design challenge to bring together local residents, community organizations, public officials and local, national, and international experts to develop innovative solutions that will strengthen our region’s resilience to sea level rise, ...