Strong Communities Build a Stronger Dallas
This North Texas Giving Day, invest in the people, partnerships, and public places that help communities thrive.
What makes a community strong?
Neighbors who have a voice in decisions. Local leaders with the resources to turn ideas into action. Organizations that work together. Public places where people gather, build relationships, and see their priorities reflected in their city.
That is community infrastructure, and it is at the heart of Trust for Public Land’s work in North Texas.
This North Texas Giving Day, help us raise $20,000 to strengthen communities and move this work forward.
Your Gift Turns Community Ideas Into Action
Residents know what their neighborhoods need. They know where children need a safe place to play, where families need shade, where walking connections are missing, and which natural places carry the history and identity of a community.
Trust for Public Land helps turn that knowledge into action. We listen. We bring people together. We help communities shape plans, connect with decision-makers, attract public and private investment, and stay involved as ideas become places people can use.
Your gift supports the people, relationships, and expertise behind that work.
Our Community Powered Programs
Powering the People Behind Neighborhood Parks
A public space becomes a community place when neighbors make it their own. Friends groups organize cleanups, welcome volunteers, care for gardens, host family activities, and give residents meaningful ways to shape the places closest to home. Trust for Public Land helps these groups build the skills, resources, and relationships they need to succeed.
We also bring Friends groups, park organizations, neighborhood leaders, and civic partners together to share ideas and strengthen support for Dallas parks.
Your gift can provide cleanup supplies, small grants for neighborhood activities, bilingual outreach, volunteer training, communications, basic operating support, and gatherings that connect local park leaders.
Big Cedar Wilderness
Help shape the future of nearly 300 acres of wooded hills, creeks, wetlands, and rugged trails within Dallas.
Your gift supports community engagement, ecological planning, improved trails and access, and partnerships that protect Big Cedar’s wild character while welcoming more people into nature.
Five Mile Creek Greenbelt
Help southern Dallas residents shape stronger connections to parks, trails, transit, schools, healthcare, and other daily destinations.
Your gift supports community meetings, bilingual outreach, local partnerships, and continued work to turn the Five Mile Creek vision into community infrastructure.
Woody Branch Park
Thousands of conversations shaped the vision for Woody Branch Park, Dallas’ largest greenbelt.
Your support helps keep residents involved as that vision advances through design, ecological planning, funding strategy, and project coordination.
Protecting More Land for Everyone
Trust for Public Land works across Texas and the country to protect more land for public use and connect more people with the outdoors.
Sometimes that means helping acquire land for a new park or preserve. It can also mean advancing public funding, sharing our expertise, bringing partners together, and using our voice in service of the public lands all Americans share.
State Director Molly Morgan shared her story about Big Bend National Park and and reiterated our work to protect the natural landscape, maintain public access, invest in facilities that serve visitors, and support the people who care for it.
Your gift helps our Texas team pursue new conservation opportunities and build lasting support for parks and public lands.
What Your Giving Supports:
Your North Texas Giving Day gift can support neighborhood park activities, Friends groups, community engagement, land protection, and the staff expertise required to advance major projects.
Here is what your gift can help make possible:
Trust for Public Land is a national nonprofit that works to connect everyone to the benefits and joys of the outdoors. Our mission is to create parks and protect land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. As a leader in equitable access to the outdoors, we work in partnership with communities to create parks and protect public lands where they are needed most. Since protecting Joppa Preserve in 1986, we have helped conserve more than 2,000 acres across North Texas. Today, we are carrying that work forward by protecting land, expanding public access, advancing community-shaped projects, and supporting the local leaders who care for Dallas neighborhoods.
We believe that when all people have equal access to the outdoors, communities are stronger, healthier, more resilient, and more equitable.
Trust for Public Land is committed to comprehensive organizational development to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in all aspects of our work, internally and externally, including defining authentic and credible roles for Trust for Public Land, understanding issues that hinder our progress, and leveraging our place in the conservation movement to drive change.
We recently developed and launched a comprehensive DEI Action Plan, which examines every facet of the organization, including company culture, recruitment and hiring, and helping advance diversity, equity, and inclusion within the conservation field.
Organization name
Trust for Public Land
Causes
Environment & Conservation
Operating Budget
$3,000,000 - $9,999,999
Counties Served
Dallas
BIPOC Serving
Black or African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic or Latinx, Native American
BIPOC Leadership
Board Chair
Address
3000 Pegasus Park Dr., Suite 752