Worldwide, low-income and racial/ethnic minority communities tend to have a lower provision of green space than less disadvantaged groups. To address these inequities, some non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have worked on projects, such as new parks in underserved communities, and policy change, such as green space funding prioritizing underserved areas. To date, limited research has examined the landscape of NGOs working to advance green space equity via policy change. In this paper, we studied what kind of NGOs engage in green space equity policy advocacy in the US. We used topic modeling, keywords-in-context, and inferential statistics to analyze grant applications for a national initiative to fund green space equity advocacy, the first and only of its kind. We found that NGOs also advocate for several interrelated topics related to green space equity (e.g., environmental issues, social services), engage numerous policy actors in campaigns (e.g., politicians, youth), and use other strategies such as coalitions, power building, and research. NGOs working to address green space inequities also need to contend with other systemic issues affecting underserved communities (e.g., poverty, health disparities). Our findings can inform the work of public and philanthropic funders, local governments seeking partnerships with NGOs, and NGOs themselves.

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非政府组织、绿色空间公平和政策变化：美国的一项全国性研究


在世界范围内，低收入和少数种族/民族社区的绿色空间供应往往低于弱势群体。为了解决这些不平等问题，一些非政府组织 （NGO） 开展了项目，例如在服务不足的社区建造新公园，并进行了政策变革，例如为服务不足的地区提供绿色空间资金。迄今为止，有限的研究考察了致力于通过政策变化促进绿色空间公平的非政府组织的前景。在本文中，我们研究了美国有哪些类型的非政府组织参与绿色空间公平政策倡导。我们使用主题建模、上下文中的关键字和推理统计来分析资助绿色空间公平倡导的全国倡议的拨款申请，这是同类倡议中的首创也是唯一一个。我们发现，非政府组织还倡导与绿色空间公平相关的几个相互关联的主题（例如，环境问题、社会服务），让众多政策参与者参与竞选活动（例如，政治家、青年），并使用其他策略，例如联盟、权力建设和研究。致力于解决绿色空间不平等问题 的非政府组织还需要应对影响服务不足社区的其他系统性问题（例如，贫困、健康差异）。我们的研究结果可以为公共和慈善资助者、寻求与非政府组织合作的地方政府以及非政府组织本身的工作提供信息。