ENTERPRISE ROSE ARCHITECTURAL FELLOWSHIP

Opportunity for a three-year fellowship beginning in January 2018

THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND, NATIONAL

MAY 16 & JUNE 14 @ 2pm ET Online informational webinarsJULY 10, 2017 Fellowship application deadline (Midnight, EST)SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER (TBC) Finalist Summit (finalists will be notified by Sept 1st if they are selected to attend) OCTOBER, 2017 In-person interview with host organization NOVEMBER, 2017 Final decisions and notificationsJANUARY, 2018 Fellowship begins

BASED IN ST PAUL, Minn

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ABOUT

The Trust for Public Land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. We have been connecting communities to the outdoors—and to each other—since our founding in 1972. To date, we have preserved more than 3 million acres, created or transformed close to 2,000 parks, playgrounds, and gardens, and developed more than 2,000 miles of trails across the United States. The Trust for Public Land has also helped states and local communities generate over $60 billion in new public funds for parks and open space. Since our founding, The Trust for Public Land has worked with urban communities to create parks and preserve public spaces for people to enjoy. The goal of our Parks for People strategy is to ensure that there is a park or green space within a 10-minute walk of everyone living in urban America. While more than 80 percent of Americans live in cities and suburbs, approximately 35 percent lack close-to-home access to places that help create healthy people and healthy communities. We believe that the 10-minute walk is a powerful goal that can help combat many challenges faced by American cities, such as addressing lack of green space and disparities in access, mitigating the impacts of climate change, and ensuring community health and vitality. We also believe that equity and fairness matter, and that creating more parks and green spaces can improves livability, health, prosperity, and quality of life for every-one. For that reason, we choose to work in places where lack of access to the benefits of nature contributes to broader disparities. As we engage people in the process of creating parks and protecting land, we seek out those who may face barriers to partic-ipation. And we believe that both our community engagement process and its results are transformational—that when we empower communities to create parks and pro-tect land, we can address inequities beyond the boundaries of our work.

FELLOWSHIP GOALS

The Trust for Public Land has an organization-wide commitment to equity and is more deeply exploring how it can inform how and where we do our work on the ground. This investigation includes addressing how our work can be part of larger positive change for communities, and better understanding the risk of unintended consequences of neighborhood improvement. We recognize that creating new parks and other green-spaces can have a tangible impact on property values, desirability, and other factors that influence the social and demographic composition of neighborhoods.

Our organization is currently deepening our understanding of mitigation strategies for displacement that are housed within the mission of our organization; our community engagement techniques are designed to help local residents play a leading role in shaping their neighborhoods, and deciding which projects move forward and how they are designed. We know that leading government, academic, and non-profit entities across the country are also developing new strategies and tactics to address this issue. Based out of our Saint Paul office, the Rose Fellow will allow us to expand our efforts to understand the scope of this research and work, and more deeply connect with the affordable housing community in pursuing best practices for NGOs working in urban infrastructure. Through the lens of a common challenge of displacement, the fellow will strengthen the relationship of housing and parks organizations through both national research and on-the-ground work in Saint Paul and Cleveland. The fellow will help our organization foster a better-connected effort for enhancing quality of life within neighborhoods across the housing and park sectors, creating a national model for best practices to be distributed across the work of both of our organizations, and our organizations’ networks.

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PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES

The Rose Fellow will focus on national research and information-gathering on the connections between parks and affordable housing, while actively engaging in spe-cific projects in Saint Paul and Cleveland. Among the fellow’s various projects and activities, highlights include:

Helping our organization understand the impact of infrastructure investment on af-fordable housing and connecting with national affordable housing organizations to develop best practices:The fellow will perform a scan of available information from parks departments and other park advocates who have pursued this connection, and research how other infrastructure organizations approach issues of displacement (transit, policy, etc). The fellow will then look at how parks have impacted displacement in the local con-text, such as along the culturally-diverse Green Line transit corridor in Saint Paul. In Cleveland, park efforts and community engagement will attempt to unite public housing residents, the surrounding community, and recreational users of a regional trail network in one of the city’s most economic and socially diverse neighborhoods. In both Saint Paul and Cleveland, as well as nationally, the fellow will identify potential partners for engagement and development of best practices.

Implementing testing of best practices for park investments to enhance positive hous-ing outcomes:The fellow will identify Trust for Public Land projects where best practices can be test-ed, which will involve interviewing Trust for Public Land staff to evaluate and select projects, as well as project management of park investments and coordination and tracking of project work in both Saint Paul and Cleveland.

Participating in the community engagement and design of projects in Saint Paul and Cleveland. The fellow will connect with local housing partners, supporting community engagement efforts, ensuring community voices are represented in the design pro-cess, and supporting landscape architect partners in the design process. The fellow will focus on integrating solutions and processes found through research and test them within both cities’ work. In addition to the implementation of the park designs, the community engagement in both cities will help to identify best practices and transferable processes that will include a holistic program of social and physical com-ponents for park and infrastructure in low-income communities, as well as creative placemaking engagement strategies that test our ability to unite residents of multiple generations and cultural backgrounds in the design process.

• SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF GRIGGS PARK (SAINT PAUL): The fellow will work with the City on a new park we’re creating, a nearly $6 million, three-year project in the underserved and diverse Midway area. The fellow will become familiar with the body of documentation that captures “park listening” with ~1300 community members (to be complete by September 2017), compile it, and share their findings with the City’s park designer. The fellow will then assist the City’s landscape architect in effectively interpreting and embedding these community values and park prefer-ences into the park design.

• SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LAKEVIEW TERRACE PROJECT (Cleveland): The fellow will focus on the Lakeview Terrace project, located in one of the oldest housing projects in the country. When Lakeview Terrace opened in 1937, it was one of the first housing projects authorized by the federal government. The Trust for Public Land is working with the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) to design new parks, restore existing, and improve connectivity for the community that will provide a welcoming and inspirational landscape, and properly connect residents to the nearby Lake Erie shoreline.

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FELLOW WORK PLAN: ACTIVITIES, TARGETS AND MILESTONES FOR FIRST YEAR+

PRIORITIZATION OF TARGET GREEN SPACE INVESTMENTS at public housing and in Cleveland neighborhoods

CLEVELAND: Assessment of existing CMHA housing sites and associated park access

SCAN OF NATIONAL HOUSING ORGANIZATIONS’ work on displacement gentrification

PROGRAM MANAGER National TPL Senior Director Cleveland TPL Director

City of Cleveland

Goals Projects Role Milestones/Deliverables Supervisor/Partners

TWIN CITIES: Explore impact of parks on displacement along the Green Line corridor

SCAN OF PARKS DEPARTMENTS AND OTHER PARK ADVOCATES who have pursued this connection

Local Rose Fellow Alumni

St Paul TPL Director

City of St Paul office of Design

St Paul TPL Director

EMBED CULTURAL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LEARNINGS into design and stewardship of Griggs Park in St. Paul

ASSIST CITY’S LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT in effectively interpreting and embedding community values and preferences into park design

DESIGN MANAGER Years 2&3: Constructed park is well-used, “owned” and loved by multiple communities

TEST BEST PRACTICES FOR PARK INVESTMENTS to enhance positive housing outcomes

CLEVELAND: Development of Lakeview Terrace Park

IDENTIFY HOUSING PARTNERS TO COLLABORATE WITH on these projects and establish partnership

PROJECT MANAGER Clear understanding and agreement between TPL and housing partner about project for collaboration, roles and collaboration goals

CONNECT WITH AFFORDABLE HOUSING ORGANIZATIONS on best practices for joint work

UNDERSTAND INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT IMPACT on afford-able housing

IDENTIFY AND INTERVIEW NATIONAL EXPERTS IN THE SELECTED FIELDS

LEVERAGE OTHER TWIN CITIES’ ROSE FELLOWS to understand how parks impact affordable housing demand and explore how to mitigate displacement

PROGRAM MANAGER

National TPL Senior Director Cleveland TPL Director

City of Cleveland