Active Transportation
Webinar – Safety First: How to Effectively Demonstrate Safe Outcomes in Grant Applications
Join the TrailNation Collaborative, powered by Rails to Trails Conservancy, to gain tools and tips for demonstrating safety in your grant applications. Attendees heard from Shayna Rose from the Baltimore City Department of Transportation and Ian Thomas from America Walks about the various ways they demonstrate safety outcomes in their everyday work, including demonstration projects and walking audits. During this webinar, attendees learned how to talk about projects and safety improvements in solid, quantifiable ways to produce stronger and more competitive grant applications.
Speakers
- Shayna Rose, Planner and Vision Zero Manager, Baltimore City Department of Transportation
- Ian Thomas, State and Local Program Director, America Walks
- Kim Chesser, State Agency Advocacy Specialist, RTC
- Mary Ellen Koontz, TrailNation Collaborative Lead, RTC (moderator)
Resources
- Learn more about the TrailNation Collaborative: https://www.railstotrails.org/our-work/trailnation/collaborative/
- TrailNation, an RTC initiative, brings to life our vision of trails at the heart of healthy, thriving communities. Check out the full body of our TrailNation work at www.railstotrails.org/trailnation
- Learn strategies, including investment strategies, for building trail networks in the Trail Nation Playbook: https://www.railstotrails.org/trailnation/playbook/
- Looking for trail funding? Check out RTC’s federal funding resources: https://www.railstotrails.org/policy/funding/
- Learn more about America Walks: https://americawalks.org/
- Check out this quick video on how to complete a walking audit in your community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98dqXLh3M2U
- Find more about Week Without Driving, here: https://americawalks.org/campaigns/week-without-driving/
- Check out the AARP Walk Audit Tool Kit: https://www.aarp.org/livable-communities/getting-around/aarp-walk-audit-tool-kit.html
- Baltimore is home to TrailNation’s Baltimore Greenway Trails Network. Learn more about this emerging 35-mile network: https://www.railstotrails.org/trailnation/baltimore-greenway-trails-network/
- The next round of Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grants closes on August 29th. Learn more here: https://www.railstotrails.org/policy/funding/safety/ss4a/
- RTC’s TrailNation Collaborative, Trail Development and Policy teams produce a free webinar series designed to help trail professionals build, grow, manage, maintain, promote or otherwise support trails and trail networks. Sign up here to get webinar alerts.
- Have a comment or question on our webinar series? Contact us below with topic or speaker ideas. We appreciate your feedback! Email us.
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