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- EIN 13-2808114
- 49 5th Ave 1025 Brooklyn NY 11217-2043 USA
- http://www.pps.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Community & Neighborhood Development, Economic Development, Environment, Environmental Beautification
Mission: PPS’ mission is to create and sustain public places that build communities. Our place-based approach to planning and decision-making evolved from our mentor - William H. Whyte’s (Social Life of Small Urban Places). The approach involves looking at, listening to and asking questions of the people in a community about their needs and aspirations. We work with them to create a vision around the places they view as important to community life and to their daily experience; and we help them implement their ideas beginning with small scale, doable improvements that can be phased in quickly and immediately begin to benefit a community. This process is carried out with such tools as systematic on-site observations, time-lapse filming, customized interviews and user surveys, that allow us to go out to people in the places where they live, work and congregate to gather their input, document and analyze their activities, and reach those who otherwise might not participate in an improvement effort. The process also includes facilitated public forums, workshops, meetings and committees that give people an opportunity from the effort's outset to identify issues, contribute ideas and make decisions about improvements that can holistically address their manifold concerns and enhance the places where they live and work. Using this approach, we are able to help rebuild communities both in spirit and as places.