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Powerbuilding with Maps

Prevention Institute

GreenInfo team: Maegan Leslie Torres, Stephanie Ding

Project years: 2022-2024

Tags: Analysis Communications Environment GIS Services Graphic Design Public Health Recreation Social Justice/Equity

Powerbuilding 1
Shows where people of color live (dark purple) and hazardous waste sites exist (white dots)
Powerbuilding 2
Map highlighting custom dataset created by local partner.
Powerbuilding 3
Map showing School Parks and Public Greenspaces in Austin, Texas
Powerbuilding 4
Rio Holiday (https://www.rioholaday.com/) graphically recorded P3's second in-person convening.

Overview

What challenges is this project trying to solve?

  • Green spaces are an important space for communities for their social and recreational uses. In urban cities, green spaces can be sparse and inaccessible.

What were the client’s objectives?

  • Fostering communications with local communities is crucial in supporting them
  • Prevention Institute's initiative: Prevention Institute’s People, Parks, and Power (P3), seeks to advance green space equity through community-building, research, and strategic communications
  • Prevention Institute's mission requires some component of mapping visualization and analysis

Results

  • Greeninfo worked with the local partners to produce different maps that each supported the LP’s respective needs for their projects.
  • Greeninfo gathered some national-level data -such as U.S. Census and EPA’s Environmental EJ Screen data - that was useful for LPs, and then gathered data that was specific and local to each local partner’s project.
  • Greeninfo to regularly meet and collaborate with partners and to refine and narrow down their project scopes.
Powerbuilding 1
Shows where people of color live (dark purple) and hazardous waste sites exist (white dots)
Powerbuilding 2
Map highlighting custom dataset created by local partner.
Powerbuilding 3
Map showing School Parks and Public Greenspaces in Austin, Texas
Powerbuilding 4
Rio Holiday (https://www.rioholaday.com/) graphically recorded P3's second in-person convening.

The Work

Prevention Institute’s People, Parks, and Power (P3) is the first national funding initiative in the U.S. to support powerbuilding by community-based organizations to reverse deep seated park and green space inequities in Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities across the country. P3 is advancing park and green space equity through this national grantmaking program, peer-to-peer learning community, research, network building, and strategic communications.