Allied Organizations
APAPA partners with several allied organizations based on shared geography or shared goals.
Pennsylvania Municipal Planning Education Institute (PMPEI)
PMPEI courses offer continuing education credits to volunteer planning commission members, attorneys (CLE), professional engineers, landscape architects, UCC code officials, land surveyors and more.
County Planning Directors Association of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania counties are diverse in many ways however, county planning directors face many common issues, challenges, and opportunities. The County Planning Directors Association of Pennsylvania works to provide educational and networking opportunities to build and strengthen relationships among Pennsylvania’s county planning directors.
Pennsylvania State Planning Board
The State Planning Board is an advisory board within the Governor’s Office. It was established by the Administrative Code of 1929 as re-enacted and amended. There are 25 members, including citizens, legislators and state department heads.
https://dced.pa.gov/local-government/boards-committees/state-planning-board/
Pennsylvania Humanities Council
The Pennsylvania Humanities Council imagines a future where all Pennsylvania residents have access without barriers to the humanities and understand the tools to lead change in their communities. Their mission is to champion the humanities as a means to spark civic engagement, build community, educate, inspire, and make long-lasting change.
Community Heart & Soul
Community Heart & Soul®, a nonprofit organization, builds stronger, healthier, and more economically vibrant small cities and towns across the United States through the Community Heart & Soul model, a resident-driven process that engages the entire population of a town in identifying what they love most about their community, what future they want for it, and how to achieve it.
https://www.communityheartandsoul.org/about-us/
Pennsylvania Delaware Chapter American Society of Landscape Architects (PA-DE ASLA)
PA-DE ASLA envisions healthy, beautiful, and resilient places for all. They promote and advance the profession of landscape architecture by encouraging members to be forward-thinking leaders within the profession and the greater professional design community. The chapter encompasses four geographic sections (Delaware, Eastern PA, Central PA, and Western PA) and is the pre-eminent professional association of approximately 600 landscape architects practicing in the states of Pennsylvania and Delaware.
10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania
10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania is the leading statewide bipartisan voice for creating healthy, vibrant and resilient communities across the Commonwealth.
Pennsylvania Downtown Center
Pennsylvania Downtown Center (PDC) is the only statewide nonprofit dedicated solely to the revitalization of the commonwealth’s core communities.
Pennsylvania Housing Alliance
The Housing Alliance of PA convenes the people, organizations, government staff and others who recognize that a safe, stable home of one’s own is a basic need that should be available to all. They take on the big systemic challenges that would allow those that are delivering housing assistance programs at the local level to provide more people with assistance to access affordable housing.
https://housingalliancepa.org/
Pennsylvania Housing Choices Coalition
The Pennsylvania Housing Choices Coalition is a statewide coalition of community groups and leaders coming together to support common-sense bipartisan statewide legislation that will bring about more attainable housing choices for all Pennsylvanians.
https://www.pahousingchoices.com/
WeConservePA
WeConservePA member land trusts have conserved 800,000 acres of Pennsylvania as wildlife habitat, parks, productive farmland, game land, greenways, and other open spaces. WeConservePA helps Environmental Advisory Councils and others protect and improve their communities with green infrastructure and outdoor recreation, as well as better land use planning and decision-making.
American Institute of Architects (AIA) Pennsylvania
AIA Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania chapter of the American Institute of Architects, works to advance, inspire, and advocate for the profession of architecture.
Urban Land Institute
ULI has 45,000+ members from every sector of the real estate development industry. There are chapters both in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.