This year marks the 30th anniversary of the largest community engagement program for local parks in NYC, Partnerships for Parks (PfP), a joint program of City Parks Foundation and NYC Parks. PfP has been bringing New Yorkers together across neighborhoods, backgrounds, and sectors to help our shared, local green spaces thrive since 1995.
Building on the citywide movement of communities reclaiming green spaces that followed the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, and inspired by the conservancies formed in the 1980s to support flagship parks, PfP was founded to bring communities together with city government and private resources to support local parks, specifically. Today, we work with nearly 500 community groups supporting 400 parks and mobilize over 30,000 volunteers annually.
We provide on-the-ground support, tools and supplies, grants, education, and other resources to sustain the living infrastructure of our city. We work to advance equity, access, and neighborhood resilience and help create opportunities for community voices to be heard in the management of local parks. Together, we build long-term investment in public space and strengthen the social fabric of our city’s neighborhoods.
Celebrate with us this year by getting involved! Volunteer at a park near you, attend a community kick-off for the Urban Forest Plan, or join us at our culminating Community Connections event. Sign up for our newsletter and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and X for updates. Share your own photos of volunteering at parks with us on social media using the hashtag #WeArePfP.
Generous private support for Partnerships for Parks is provided by The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, The Monarch Foundation, Altman Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, the Greenacre Foundation, Citizens Philanthropic Foundation, MillerKnoll Foundation, the Tiger Baron Foundation, and the MJS Foundation. Public support is provided, in part, by the USDA Forest Service, Urban and Community Forestry Program in partnership with American Forests; NYC Council through the Parks Equity Initiative under the leadership of Speaker Adrienne Adams.
Because of you, NYC’s kids are learning how to protect our environment and being introduced to a new sport for life, community volunteers are transforming a green space in need of care, and free world-class performing arts are being brought to our parks all around the city—all for free. When you support City Parks Foundation's free programs, you are helping our parks, our communities, and our city thrive.
Main Office
830 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10065
(212) 360-1399
cityparksfoundation
Privacy Policy | © 2025 City Parks Foundation
