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January 2021

In this issue of Outside Matters^TM—our freshly redesigned monthly newsletter—we reflect on how your support moved our land-for-people mission forward, helping millions nationwide connect with the outdoors in 2020 and raising awareness of the importance of equitable access to parks and open space.

Preserving a piece of Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy

A family of four walks along the edge of a field

Photo Credit: Kesha Lambert

You wouldn't know it by looking at it, but this peaceful field on the outskirts of Hartford, Connecticut, holds clues to a fascinating chapter in civil rights history.

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In the spotlight

Photo Credit: Joe Martinez

Your impact across the U.S. in 2020

Through uncertainty and heartbreak, Trust for Public Land supporters rallied around the power of parks. Explore our 2020 Annual Report to see how this support for equitable access to parks made—and will continue to make—a difference for millions of people across the nation.

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A grandson helps save his family’s ancestral home

Photo Credit: The Nature Conservancy

Mary Kawena Pukūʻi wrote more than fifty books about the language and culture of Hawaiʻi, helping spark a movement that celebrated Native Hawaiian identity. Today, her descendants are standing up to help save a landscape on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi, where family ties and time-honored traditions unite people and the land across generations.

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Updates across the country

Boy on a playground celebrating the opening of a new green schoolyard

Photo Credit: Alexa Hoyer

New places to play in Atlanta

When students at Atlanta’s Kimberly Elementary return to in-person learning, they’ll find a brand new playground thanks to our Community Schoolyards program. Outside of school hours, the space will serve as a park for the whole neighborhood. Keep an eye out for news of more schoolyard sites opening in Atlanta and across the country this year.

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An ariel shot of beautiful Puget Sound in Washington

Photo Credit: Justin Reznick

A new 10-mile corridor protected in Washington

We have seen during this pandemic just how vital access to the outdoors is for our well-being. In 2020, we celebrated the completion of the 20,000-acre South Puget Sound Coastal Forest project near Olympia, creating a 10-mile long conservation corridor, ensuring public recreation access, and forever protecting a working forest from development.

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Why Outside Matters

Discover how one man’s legacy inspired two dozen donors to take the Gresham Challenge and create a meaningful impact for parks and programs across the country.

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What's happening near you

Ways to give

A canoer paddles a red canoe on the still waters of Katahdin Lake in Maine

Photo Credit: Jerry and Marcy Monkman/EcoPhotography.com

Help reclaim, repair, and restore public lands in 2021

2021 has just begun, and we already have our work cut out for us. We need your help to undo years of mismanagement and neglect that have left our nation’s parks, national monuments, and public lands in disrepair. Your monthly gift today is critical to sustain our work to create parks and protect public land, now and for generations to come.

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New year, new look

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