Our Coastal Classroom Summer Institute is up and running! Students spent their first week seining and fishing at Kaiser Park.
City Parks Foundation
Non-profit Organizations
CPF makes parks vibrant centers of community through sports, arts, community building, and environmental education.
About us
City Parks Foundation (CPF) is the only independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to offer programs in public parks throughout the five boroughs of New York City. At CPF, we are dedicated to invigorating and transforming parks into dynamic, vibrant centers of urban life through arts, environmental education, sports, and community building programs for all New Yorkers. Our ethos is simple: we believe thriving parks mean thriving communities. We produce SummerStage, the largest free, outdoor performing arts festival in NYC, presenting world-class artists from across the globe and our own neighborhoods on our mainstage in Central Park and in local parks in all five boroughs, and our Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre and roving PuppetMobile present marionette puppet theater throughout New York City. Partnerships for Parks, a public-private program of City Parks Foundation and NYC Parks, supports and champions a growing network of community leaders who care and advocate for the transformation of our neighborhood parks. We connect youngsters to nature in the urban environment through progressive, experiential teaching. Using parks as classrooms, we provide learning experiences and hands-on activities in urban forests, coastal areas, and gardens. Free golf, tennis, track & field, soccer, and fitness programs bring high-quality instruction and equipment into areas where few organized athletic opportunities exist. We offer leveled training, year-round scholarship coaching, and special pro events.
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http://www.cityparksfoundation.org
External link for City Parks Foundation
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- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- New York
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- Nonprofit
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Primary
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830 5th Ave
New York, US
Employees at City Parks Foundation
Updates
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Next week! We’ll be celebrating CityParks Learn at SummerStage in Central Park on July 17 at our SOLD OUT The Saw Doctors show. Have tickets? Learn more about our education programs and meet members of our team!
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Our annual benefit is BACK! We’re proud to honor tennis stars and philanthropists John and Patrick McEnroe with our CPF Icon Award and Nuveen Real Estate’s Nadir Settles with our People & Parks Award at our 2024 Dinner & Concert at SummerStage in Central Park. Our one-night-only concert is headlined by the legendary 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Peter Frampton and singer-songwriter Patty Smyth with an all-star house band led by special guest Steve Jordan. This annual event benefits our free programs, keeping NYC parks thriving for all New Yorkers. For more information, visit https://lnkd.in/eHf-47jD.
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Our 2024 NYC Green Fund Pathways grant recipients have been announced! Congratulations to the 10 nonprofits who were awarded a total of $500,000 to continue their work to build a more equitable and resilient park and open space system. Learn more and read this full list of grantees at https://lnkd.in/eSxqSVDN!
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Looking for educational summer field trip opportunities in NYC? There is still time to register for our Learning Gardens and Coastal Classroom Summer Groups programs. Our programs accommodate groups of up to 25 students! Learn more at https://lnkd.in/eJa-MBA4.
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We love these photos that a community gardener captured of our Corporate Service Day with Piper Maddox last week in the Abib Newborn Learning Garden!
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At City Parks Foundation, we offer New Yorkers the tools and resources they need to use their parks and advocate for their support! Vital Parks for All is NYC Department of Parks & Recreation's new data-driven approach to deliver park resources to the neighborhoods that need it most. Learn more at http://nyc.gov/vitalparks
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TOMORROW - rally to #SaveNYCParks! Join Speaker Adams, NYC Council Members, and the #PlayFair Coalition in Morningside Park as they rally to restore budget cuts and demand #1Percent4Parks. Transportation: 1 Train to 116th St
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Escape the heat at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre this weekend! Catch performances of #BessiesBigShot Thursday - Sunday at 11AM and 1PM. Get your tickets at https://lnkd.in/eT5HTRk7
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Our Director of Education, Chrissy Word, celebrated her birthday by testifying this morning in front of the Parks Committee on the importance of community gardens and how our Learning Gardens program works. You can also read her op-ed “Kids’ happiness depends on parks” at https://archive.ph/t2kTj
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