Prospect Park Alliance

Morgan Monaco, Prospect Park Alliance President and Park Administrator has been named one of Crain's New York Business' Notable Black Leaders of 2024! Read the full profile to learn more about Morgan's work leading Prospect Park Alliance in sustaining Brooklyn's Backyard, her work to bring health and wellness services to the park and much more. View the full list of notable Black leaders and change-makers across industries: prospectpark.org/crains c. Paul Martinka

Want your support for Brooklyn’s Backyard to go 2x as far all year long? 🍃 Become a Prospect Park Alliance Sustainer by midnight tonight, and two Alliance donors will match your monthly gift for an entire year! That’s 12 months of doubling your impact to sustain the park’s beauty, community events, historic landscapes and more: bit.ly/sustain-prospect c. Bianca Nelson

Want your support for Brooklyn’s Backyard to go 2x as far all year long? 🍃🍂 Become a Prospect Park Alliance Sustainer by October 15, and two Alliance donors will match your monthly gift for an entire year! That’s 12 months of doubling your impact to sustain the park’s beauty, community events, historic landscapes and more: bit.ly/sustain-prospect c. Martin Seck

Ready to double your impact for Prospect Park–12x in a row? Become a Prospect Park Alliance Sustainer by October 15, and two generous Alliance donors have pledged to match your gift each month for a year — that’s 12 matches in a row to support the Alliance’s work to care for the park's woodlands and natural areas; restore buildings and landscapes; create innovative destinations; and expand volunteer, education and recreation programs and more: bit.ly/sustain-prospect c. Sanden Wolff

Join the Fall Sustainer Challenge! Become a Prospect Park Alliance Sustainer starting at only $5 a month – enjoy the perks of membership and invitations to special events, like our Spring Sustainer Social. ☀️ Plus, when you join the challenge to become a Sustainer by October 15, two generous Alliance donors have pledged to match your gift each month for a year — that’s 12 matches in a row to support the Alliance’s work to care for the park's woodlands and natural areas; restore buildings and landscapes; create innovative destinations; and expand volunteer, education and recreation programs and more: https://lnkd.in/eEFBHY7Z c. Martin Seck

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🎧🗣️ Did you hear? This week's Public Health on Call Podcast from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health features Prospect Park Alliance President, Morgan Monaco on Prospect Park Alliance + NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Open Air Care Connections initiative in partnership with NHS Brooklyn CDC, Inc.. Open Air Care Connections addresses barriers to well-being + leverages the health benefits of nature through community health outreach, events and educational programs. Give it a listen to learn more on how the initiative came to life and how a question as simple as "How are you feeling today?" makes an impact on our Brooklyn community: https://lnkd.in/ew5jwKcV

Prospect Park Alliance’s strategic plan, “A Thriving Park for a Thriving Brooklyn,” provides a road map for the Alliance and the park for the next five years. This plan embodies the Alliance’s essential role in a post-pandemic Brooklyn, amplifying our capacity to enrich neighboring communities, unlocking new avenues to ensure the financial future of the park, and strategically prioritizing resources to meet ever-evolving needs. View the plan: https://lnkd.in/gpcy-WbY c. Elizabeth Keegin Colley

Prospect Park Alliance's Vice President of Capital and Landscape Management, Christian Zimmerman, has been awarded the Olmsted Stewardship Award by the @olmstednetwork thanks to his work, vision and stewardship of Prospect Park. "Over three decades, Zimmerman has worked tirelessly to restore the landscape of Prospect Park, introduce the next generation of landscape architects to Frederick Law Olmsted and generously assist many cities in their restoration efforts." Learn more about the award: https://lnkd.in/e9X2kzsr c. Bess Adler

Prospect Park Alliance has been awarded $75,000 from the @NationalTrustforHistoric Preservation's African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. This grant will further the Alliance's ReImagine Lefferts initiative to re-envision the mission and programming of the Lefferts Historic House museum to focus on exploring the lives, resistance and resilience of the Indigenous people of Lenapehoking, whose unceded ancestral lands the park and house rests upon, and the Africans enslaved by the Lefferts family. More: https://lnkd.in/gFNjBsT8 c. Obed Obwoge