Parks, Open Space, and Placemaking
Parks
I've worked for parks non-profits and conservancies since 2005. My work has included fundraising; managing capital projects; organizing and running hundreds of programs, events, and volunteer workdays; and working as a seasonal horticulturist at an organically maintained park. As an independent consultant (Charlie McCabe Consulting LLC), I work with organizations across the country on a range of parks, open space, placemaking and non-profit projects and issues. I live in Greater Boston and in my spare time, I volunteer for several Boston-area parks and trails non-profit organizations.
One of the six Bronx parks I surveyed for physical activity at New Yorkers for Parks using the SOPARC method, summer 2016
Annual Flash Forward Festival featuring photography pop-up galleries and The Fence by Photoville on the Rose Kennedy Greenway.
One of my favorite programming efforts, while at the Austin Parks Foundation, in partnership with the DAA and Alamo Drafthouse
Our Greenway mobile eats program was popular and curated by us with over 30 vendors participating.
at lunchtime - heart of the Greenway Mobile Eats program
home to fountains, seating, great grades and summertime concerts.
We hosted the annual Boston Local Food Festival on the Greenway every fall, with over 100 vendors and demonstrations, drawing over 40,000 people in a single day
We collaborated with the Berklee School of Music for weekly summer concerts on the Greenway.