• City Parks Foundation provides free
    and accessible arts, sports, education and
    community-building programs within NYC parks.

Partnerships for Parks

Partnerships for Parks is an innovative joint program of City Parks Foundation & NYC Parks.

Founded in 1995, we help New Yorkers work together to make neighborhood parks thrive. Ultimately, our work supports a culture of collaboration among people and government that recognizes that parks are vital centers of community life.

Partnerships received the prestigious Innovations in American Government Award in 2000 and is called upon to share best practices with counterparts from locations as widespread as Anchorage, Philadelphia, Berlin, and Tokyo.

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This free fellowship program supports community-based parks groups and individual volunteers in achieving sustainable success through in-depth project and/or group development.
This joint project of Hester Sreet Collaborative and Partnerships for Parks helps New Yorkers participate in the design of their parks.
This multi-year initiative works in historically under-served neighborhoods, and galvanizes support for and commitments for improved parks.
Each spring and fall, join thousands of New Yorkers to volunteer and celebrate their neighborhood parks and public spaces.
This new project will bring hundreds of new trees to Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside and Woodside over the next three years.
We make grants to community groups working in NYC parks to strengthen their outreach, membership, and program-planning capacity.