LeBauer & Center City Parks are open daily, 7am - 10pm
The Splash Pad will return on May 1st!
Programs
Bring your Passion to the Parks
Become a Greensboro Downtown Parks
Program Partner
If you are a local nonprofit, small business, artist, educator, advocate, or more and would like to make an impact in your city by helping us to provide *always FREE* community engagement activities and resources, consider becoming a GDPI Program Partner today!
Program Eligibility
Greensboro Downtown Parks annually works with 30+ local experts in their respective fields to bring high-quality community engagement programs to Center City & LeBauer Parks. Creating a space to develop new ways for people to come together is the hallmark of our vision for activating these public spaces, and our organization is committed to bringing the best of what Greensboro has to offer to our visitors by way of longterm, meaningful program partnerships.
To be eligible to bring a program to Greensboro's downtown parks, partners must:
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Show proof of experience in their respective program areas. GDPI is committed to providing high-quality programming, working with vetted professionals and/or community volunteers in their area of expertise.
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Align their programmatic structure to the goals of our organization's vision for activated placemaking.
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Understand that all programs at LeBauer & Center City Parks must remain entirely FREE to attend for the public. Pay-to-participate activations may be organized at the downtown parks through our Park Rentals department.
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Create a programmatic vision inclusive of all people and adaptive to the varying abilities, resources, and experiences of our diverse community.
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Commit to building longterm relationships with the park community by offering a program series with a minimum of 4 activations (dates). One-time and less frequent events may be held at the downtown parks via our Park Rentals process.
Partner Benefits
Benefits of becoming a Greensboro Downtown Parks Program Partner include:
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Access to the heart of our downtown community, serving 300,000+ annual visitors.
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Priority use, free of charge, of park space, equipment, and staff assistance for the successful delivery of the program experience.
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Marketing managed entirely by the Greensboro Downtown Parks team to promote your park program and business, including features in print marketing, such as the Seasonal Program Catalogs; digital marketing via the downtown parks website, blog, and weekly newsletter; press and public marketing via newspaper, tv, radio, magazines and digital publications, and public community calendars; and social media marketing with a reach of 41,000+
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Professional documentation of the park program via Park Photographer, Jennifer Scheib of Happy Labs Photography.
Current Partners
Thank you to our 2024 Partners for their commitment to building community through dynamic program activation of the parks! To learn more about joining the free programs these amazing partners bring to the parks, please visit our Things to Do page.
