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Community and corporate partners for Hunting Park.

Save the Date: 2010 Centennial Celebration

Join the Fairmount Park Conservancy on Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 as we honor John Binswanger and Edith R. Dixon, two long-time supporters of Philadelphia's exclusive park system. The Celebration will be held at The Horticulture Center in the Centennial District of West Fairmount Park. To purchase tickets, please click here or call 215-988-9334. For more information on sponsorship opportunities, please click here.

Special thanks to the Centennial Celebration Presenting Sponsor

And to the Centennial Celebration Belmont Sponsors:

 

 

Fairmount Park Conservancy Donor Cards Now Available

The Conservancy is now offering Donor Cards for purchase. A great way to support the Fairmount Park system, Donor Cards are the perfect alternative gift for acknowledging or thanking someone in a special way. As a charitable contribution, the Donor Cards are tax-deductible. For more information, please click here, or call 215-988-9334.

Hunting Park in the News

Philadelphia Weekly featured a cover story on Hunting Park for its January 6th-12th, 2010 edition. Click here to read Tara Murtha's report on how the 87-acre park is a major part of this North Philadelphia neighborhood's transformation.

The Fairmount Park Conservancy and a team of partners completed the first ever comprehensive revitalization plan for historic Hunting Park in North Philadelphia. On Saturday, October 17th the Conservancy unveiled the Master Plan in Hunting Park during Greater Philadelphia Cares Day. The Master Plan was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Comcast, Patricia Kind and PECO.  Wells Appel served as the lead consultant for the development of the Master Plan and staff from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Philadelphia Green program conducted a robust community engagement process in conjunction with the plan development that resulted in the creation of Hunting Park United, a park friends group that will function as a direct liaison to the community.  The Master Plan addresses capital improvements, park maintenance, expanded programming and safety issues that together will create a healthier and safer park for the surrounding community.

Some of the first recommendations of the plan are already underway thanks to the support of The Ryan Howard Family Foundation, Citizens Bank and the Conservancy’s Growing the Neighborhood program, which is sponsored by ACE Group, NovaCare Rehabilitation, PRWT Services, Inc., and U.S. Facilities, Inc.  Projects include the restoration of Hunting Park’s baseball field, the creation of a new multi-use field and park-wide landscape maintenance. To browse the Hunting Park Revitalization Executive Summary, please click here.

Sign up for the Fairmount Free Press E-Newsletter

The Fairmount Park Conservancy’s free bi-monthly publication features interviews, stories about park destinations, in-depth reports of all Conservancy happenings, and much, much more. All from the convenience of your own inbox. To sign up today, please email us or call 215-988-9334. And check out the most recent issue here.

Keep Informed, Stay Involved, Enjoy your Park

Need a map? Want to volunteer? Have a concern about a street tree? Check out our FAQ page for resources and answers to frequently asked Park questions.


FEATURED PROJECT

Erase Your Trace

The Fairmount Park Conservancy is partnering with Mayor Nutter's Office of Sustainability in establishing a local carbon offset market that will raise money for tree planting in Philadelphia. Erase Your Trace is an online tool that will help Philadelphians calculate their annual carbon dioxide emissions and then help offset them through local tree planting efforts. Using the CarbonPlus Calculator developed by the U.S. Forest Service, Erase Your Trace is a fun and flexible tool that enables users to donate the full cost of their annual carbon emissions or a portion to offset specific activities such as vehicle use or airplane travel. For more information please visit www.eraseyourtrace.org.

Founded in 2000, the Fairmount Park Conservancy is an independent nonprofit organization that seeks to foster an ongoing partnership between the public and private sectors to reclaim Fairmount Park as a focal point for Philadelphia's economic development and neighborhood renewal.