Park Pride met the little girl pictured recently on a hot summer’s evening at a neighborhood gathering in the Mattie Freeland Greenspace, a collection of vacant lots in the English Avenue neighborhood. The event was part of Park Pride’s unique Park Visioning process which helps communities create a shared vision for a neighborhood park.
Change isn’t easy, and it doesn’t happen overnight! However, each year Park Pride actively helps neighborhoods to transform their parks and communities through programs. See the difference that your dollars help to make possible through the Volunteer Program: Zonolite Park Each year, Park Pride coordinates more than 15,000 hours of volunteer service in parks with … Continue Reading →
Change isn’t easy, and it doesn’t happen overnight! However, each year Park Pride actively helps neighborhoods to transform their parks and communities through programs. See the difference that your dollars help to make possible through the Park Visioning Program: Vine City Park In 2005, the Vine City community asked for Park Pride’s help in transforming … Continue Reading →
Change isn’t easy, and it doesn’t happen overnight! However, each year Park Pride actively helps neighborhoods to transform their parks and communities through programs. See the difference that your dollars help to make possible through the Matching Grant Programs: Reverend James Orange Park For years, visitors to Oakland City Park had to pass a fenced, … Continue Reading →
Change isn’t easy, and it doesn’t happen overnight! However, each year Park Pride actively helps neighborhoods to transform their parks and communities through programs. See the difference that your dollars help to make possible through the Friends of the Park Program: Little Nancy Creek Park The Friends of Little Nancy Creek Park have taken … Continue Reading →
While it’s no small task, the community group of Whittier Mill Village has built a wildly successful and fun annual fall family festival: Parktoberfest. What started out as a neighborhood potluck now attracts a minimum of three bands, more than 650 adults, and an estimated 200 children to the park, raising a net of about … Continue Reading →
Mountain Way Common (a 10 acre swath of natural greenspace located 80 feet under GA 400) is more than just Buckhead’s newest park; it shows how a Friends of the Park group can pair their persistence and passion for greenspace with Park Pride’s programming to achieve amazing results. The community surrounding Mountain Way Common did … Continue Reading →
A message from Park Pride’s Executive Director, Michael Halicki Early this year, we announced that Park Pride was embarking on a new strategic plan to guide the organization over the next three to five years. Since that time, we secured a Toolbox Grant from the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, hired a seasoned consultant to … Continue Reading →
The most commonly used donor recognition program is the brick sale. Donors purchase a brick for the park which will be engraved as per their request and placed in a designated area (walkway, recognition wall, courtyard, etc.). The fundraising committee must determine the best price for bricks ($50 and $100 are the most commonly used … Continue Reading →
The Friends of Lang-Carson Park was keen on hosting an event to bring positive energy into the park and raise awareness within the neighborhood. In order to reach Reynoldstown’s growing demographic of young families, the group decided to organize an event that would speak to this generation: a cornhole tournament! For $20, a team … Continue Reading →
