Unified We Play®

Unified We Play explores partnership best practices for play and recreation. Sponsored by our parent company PlayCore, Unified We Play is a national initiative that recognizes the importance of establishing partnerships to meet community needs.

It identifies the key points to explore in a potential partnership and promotes strategies to develop and maintain successful partnerships. The research obtained in this report comes from park and recreation leaders from the American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration and urban park leaders from across the U.S.

There were there primary ways through which knowledge, opinions, expertise and case studies were gathered:

1. National online survey completed by American Academy of Parks and Recreation Administration member parks and recreation leaders in addition to urban park leaders identified partnership statistics, commonalities and trending themes
2. Roundtable discussion in Chattanooga, Tennessee, including thought leaders in the field of parks and recreation shared insight on partnership experiences, discussed survey data, validated themes and identified best practice implications
3. Detailed interviews conducted in 11 targeted cities, which provided case studies and revealed best practices across emerging themes

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