America ReFramed

City of Trees (4x12)

: 19, 2016

Since 1990, the nonprofit Washington Parks & People has tried to reduce poverty and violence in Washington, D.C. neighborhoods by improving parks. At the height of the recession, the organization received a stimulus grant to create a “green” job-training program in communities hardest hit, and had two years to help unemployed people find jobs and improve parks in their neighborhoods.