August 31, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
Creating Common Ground, discusses Embrace Open Space, a collaborative effort by several McKnight Foundation grantees to increase awareness of land-use planning and the conservation of open spaces in the Twin Cities region of Minnesota. The campaign identified 10 “treasures” that many feared could be ruined by development, including an old ammunition plant, acres of wetlands, and a rail yard. Chapters discuss how the foundation fostered collaborative efforts, how the campaign set its goals and communicated them to the news media, and what successes the campaign achieved. Several of the sites have been protected, and the foundation reports a notable increase in news coverage and citizen engagement in conservation issues.
Publisher: McKnight Foundation, 710 South Second Street, Suite 400, Minneapolis, Minn. 55401; (612) 333-4220; fax (612) 332-3833; info@mcknight.org; http://www.mcknight.org; 46 pages; available free by contacting the publisher.
