Attention park lovers! The November 8, 2022 election includes Measure U, an $850 million bond fund for capital needs. Measure U provides money to improve Oakland’s public infrastructure, including affordable housing for working families and the homeless, street repaving and safety upgrades for bikers and pedestrians and repairs for police, fire and library facilities. Of interest …
Español | 中文 The City of Oakland and the Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation want your input on DeFremery Park, as we plan to invest $200,000 in grant funding from The Clorox Company for park improvements. Your participation can help make it happen! We will work with the community this fall to create a vision …
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Join us and register today for an Oakland Estuary Clean Up on Saturday, September 17, from 9:30AM to 1:00PM! For a second consecutive year, we are proud to partner with I Heart Oakland-Alameda Estuary to celebrate Creek To Bay Day! The Oakland Estuary is home to marine animals, residents and a thriving watersport community. This stretch of water is hit hard …
To Our Oakland Parks Community, We hope you will join us at our newly-rescheduled Parks Family Reunion at Dimond Park on Saturday, August 27, from 12:00PM to 2:00PM. As we move into the second half of 2022, we have had many wins to celebrate in recent months. Among them, a significant investment by Clorox at DeFremery Park, …
* NEW DATE! ALL JULY 23RD TICKETS WILL BE HONORED! * You’re Invited!Parks Family ReunionDimond ParkRedwood Grove BBQ AreaAugust 27th12:00PM – 2:00PMOakland Parks and Recreation Foundation Parks Family Reunion | Buy Tickets Now » We are a community of volunteers, city staff, donors, civic leaders, corporate sponsors, advocates and park lovers. Two years of COVID …
Today, we are proud to announce $100,000 in Resilience Hub Mini-Grants, in partnership with the City of Oakland and the NorCal Resilience Network. Individual mini-grants ranging from $1,000-$10,000 will be used to strengthen community resilience by acquiring disaster preparedness supplies, building infrastructure related to water conservation and agriculture, enabling activities related to composting, carbon sequestration and …
To Our Oakland Parks Community, Just in time for Earth Day weekend, we are proud to announce a new partnership with The Clorox Company to benefit West Oakland parks. The partnership provides for $200,000 of investment over two years at historic DeFremery Park in West Oakland, along with volunteer events and online education about environmental …
Oakland celebrates its 28th Earth Day on Saturday, April 23, 2022. As in years past, volunteer activities are planned across the city. It is a great pleasure to invite you to join us in North Oakland with the Friends of the Rockridge Temescal Greenbelt (FROG) for a fun morning of removing litter, weeding and applying …
Our Community Greening Program Manager, Alex Pinto, dialed in to a March staff meeting with exciting news: the first 10 trees for Oakland’s Better Neighborhoods, Same Neighbors initiative have been planted by Planting Justice in front yards across the Sobrante Park neighborhood. Overall, the Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation will manage the planting of 2,000 …
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Congratulations to our partners at the City of Oakland for securing more than $7 million from the Clean California Local Grant Program to support Oakland parks. Announced on March 1, the new grants will fund the restoration of Courtland Creek Park and the beautification of 9 mini parks in underserved communities across the city. The …
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