Train the Trainers
April 10th - April 30th, 2023 Placemaking Train Trip
All Aboard! PlacemakingUS and PlacemakingX are excited to announce our "Train the Trainers" placemaking train trip. Using Amtrak, we will ride the rails to visit ten communities from April 10th - 30th, 2023 that are historically-accessible by locomotive.
The purpose of this trip is to visit with communities that are off the beaten path and are looking to increase their town's community cohesion, economic viability, creative output, equity, sustainability, and vivacity using placemaking.
We will meet with local leaders — from government officials to Main Street managers, artists and historians, foundations and grantees, students and academics, neighborhood leaders, nonprofit service providers, property and business owners, chambers of commerce, visitors bureaus, and advocates — who are working to make their towns better.
Our national and international placemaking experts are excited to visit your town. We will listen to what you've accomplished and worked on, and while we learn from you, we will brainstorm people and models you may want to connect to in other parts of the US and the world to help further your own goals.
We are making ten stops as part of this journey and we hope your town could be one of them. Let's work together to increase your placemaking capacity. Please fill out our simple form below and we hope to choo-choo-choose you!
The purpose of this trip is to visit with communities that are off the beaten path and are looking to increase their town's community cohesion, economic viability, creative output, equity, sustainability, and vivacity using placemaking.
We will meet with local leaders — from government officials to Main Street managers, artists and historians, foundations and grantees, students and academics, neighborhood leaders, nonprofit service providers, property and business owners, chambers of commerce, visitors bureaus, and advocates — who are working to make their towns better.
Our national and international placemaking experts are excited to visit your town. We will listen to what you've accomplished and worked on, and while we learn from you, we will brainstorm people and models you may want to connect to in other parts of the US and the world to help further your own goals.
We are making ten stops as part of this journey and we hope your town could be one of them. Let's work together to increase your placemaking capacity. Please fill out our simple form below and we hope to choo-choo-choose you!
Placemakers: Ride the Rails to Revitilization with US
If you are a placemaker looking to gain more experience, we welcome you to contact us to join us on this trip as a participant and to learn more about the placemaking strategies being discussed and implemented.
Funders: Full Steam Ahead with Your Assistance
We invite funders and donors to support our mission to bring placemaking expertise to rural America and empower BIPOC and student placemakers to come with us by financing their trip. Your gift to our Travel Fund will make this journey possible and help us catalyze thriving, equitable communities across the country.
